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War On Drugs This is supposed to be a free country. I don't see that it would
harm you or anybody else if someone smokes a few joints a week in moderation.
What is the harm done to you? Is this enough to take fathers and mothers away
from children? I know I'm not the sharpest knife in the draw but to say that
drug users might abuse the stuff and cause problems for their family or
neighbors is not very far from saying that because you have a knife in your
kitchen draw that you might choose to use it to cause trouble for you family or
neighbors.
Please tell me, by what reason should marijuana be illegal and please speak
from first hand experience if you can. Isn't twenty years of doing the same
thing long enough? Isn't it time to step back, gather accurate information and
objectively consider alternatives? Wasn't there an objective once? Distinguish
between soft and hard drugs like Holland did and reduce actual drug crime by
75%, actual crime, not just prohibition violations.
Treat addiction as a health problem, instead of a crime-just like alcohol is
treated-and you reduce HIV infection and decrease the costs to society. I am a
very opened minded person and have listened to a lot of opinions and read a lot
of articles on this subject. It seems that anything we find that stimulates us
or alters our state of mind in some way is a stamped as a drug. How can we take
something like cocaine, which is so addictive some people have to go to a
hospital to get off it and many people have died from overdoses, and put it in
the same catagorize as marijuana, a part of a plant which nobody has ever
overdosed from.
From my perspective, the government has no reason to make marijuana illegal,
except that it acts as a stitch. I will get to that in a minute. If it were
legal, I really doubt we would have as much drug dealing and drug deal related
deaths and crimes. It could be treated like alcohol, same rules, maybe more, but
we could have an age limit and everything. (Its (marijuana) defiantly much safer
than alcohol I don't know anybody in the right mind who could argue with that.
Alcohol is one of the biggest killers in the world, who do you ever here on the
news dying of marijuana use? Sure it may cause long cancer, but you can eat it
too. Sure somebody might be too high to drive but make rules against it. Its too
bad we couldn't replace alcohol with marijuana.
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