So your solution is to continue the War on Drugs except for mar1juana? How much better is that really? Anyways, war on drugs has worked as well as a war on guns would.
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I think you're totally wrong. This approach won't do anything to stop the violence in Mexico. Addiction and abuse are medical issues -- not legal issues. Prosecuting users and trying to cage up the market for drugs won't solve the problem. In fact, I'd contend that legalizing mar1juana and "[taxing] the dog crap out of it" is no different from keeping it illegal. Keeping drugs on the black market is a means for the government to control the price of drugs by manipulating the supply on the streets. All that does is keep users paying higher than market prices for drugs and preventing the excess from going toward other productive uses. To me, using taxes to keep destroying the supply of other "hard drugs" is a total economic waste.
I wouldn't expect a response. He hasn't posted in nearly 3 years and you're responding to a post from 8 years ago.
An odd bump from a thread 8 years ago yet other than that two states have seen the light and legalized recreational weed not much has changed.
It is a little sad that it hasn't changed faster, but just the fact that two states have regulated mar1juana is a positive development WRT drug policy.
Private Prisons have created a NEED for criminals . . .a demand if you will so . . .the war on drugs will continue You have corporation that have a vested monetary interest in more things being criminalize. That is the way they grow .. . . more prisoners = more $$$ Rocket River
TDCJ to Close Two Privately Run Jails in August http://www.texastribune.org/2013/06/11/tdcj-shutters-private-jails/
