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Legalize Cannabis

GVC said:
1. Sale of cannabis to minors will still be illegal, and law enforcement will presumably be less busy tracking down recreational users (since their use would be legal). Currently, almost 90% of cannabis-related arrests in the US are for simple possession. I'm not selling to a kid if the penalties are stiff and they're only looking for me.

2. Of course it is. It's a hell of a lot cheaper to focus your efforts on the education and use reduction of minors than on arresting recreational users. I'd say arresting nearly a million people per year for marijuana-related offenses is pretty extreme. The cost and efficacy of the policy is relevant, no?
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1. It's indeed good thing to have more force in your hand to deal with the sellers with kid customers, but will it increase your seller busting efficiency dramatically? With the way I used to get drugs, I don't think, 10 million police officers would bust me or my dealer. Anyway I don't like it being free because I don't believe that gateway of the cannabis is a lousy lie idea in the first place. Plus, by legalizing, there will occur more and more bigger market, will be more demand for it, with all the adults who likes to get that sweet highness, there won't even maybe any need of a dealer for kids.

2. So why not reducing all the unnecessary spendings other than busting recreational users and spend it for drug education etc? Then maybe even that recreational user number would reduce and you wouldn't have to arrest them?

Again I agree lots of points you made and already admit that it's grossly irregular by its current situation, but suddenly making them legal and free as its main solution won't work in my opinion.
 
@GVC Hey, would you excuse me btw, I have to get some sleep and study later, was a nice chat also, thanks.
 
GVC said:
No worries. I'm probably done with this one as well. That is, unless there's something substantive to respond to.
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OK, you mean you're done with me:mad: Sorry not being enough substantive for you. Peace. :)
 
Stoked said:
And why is that? Is their opinion any less valid than anyone elses?
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Not less valid, but (stereotyping here) less real-world. Alcohol leads to just as much as anything else. Weed is no broader path to destruction as much anything else. I was actually giving the LDS folks a lot of credit there .. that they wouldn't know .. but I think it's true. If you haven't made the mistakes yourself, you're less likely to actually know where one 'wrong path' will lead you vs. another.

I'll stop typing, because I mean it all the right way, but will be taken the wrong way. Sorry. Carry on.
 
PKM said:
Not less valid, but (stereotyping here) less real-world. Alcohol leads to just as much as anything else. Weed is no broader path to destruction as much anything else. I was actually giving the LDS folks a lot of credit there .. that they wouldn't know .. but I think it's true. If you haven't made the mistakes yourself, you're less likely to actually know where one 'wrong path' will lead you vs. another.

I'll stop typing, because I mean it all the right way, but will be taken the wrong way. Sorry. Carry on.
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If people take it the wrong way that is on them. I give you enough credit to know there was some thought process behind that. Generally I think you are right but there are Mormons with all manner of past experiences. Just like any group.
 
Stoked said:
If people take it the wrong way that is on them. I give you enough credit to know there was some thought process behind that. Generally I think you are right but there are Mormons with all manner of past experiences. Just like any group.
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Agreed. But my experience here in Utah is that of a group that doesn't understand the rest of the world all that well. No slight, at all, just an observation.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Isn't Kentucky famous for their weed? PKM is probably a pothead.
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No. It makes me cough too much and makes me paranoid. Therefore, I do it less than twice per year, at most. My wife on the other hand ... sheeeeeeeshhhhhhsssshhhhshshshshshshsshssssssssssssheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.
 
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