California Could Use mar1juana to Help With Economic Issues

Tell yourself whatever you like, but by the time I was 20, I had finished with my certification as an addiction counselor. I had already worked for two years as a counselor's aide at an addiction recovery facility. I am 38, you do the math.

If you actually believed you could win, you would already have taken me up on my challenge. Now shut up and let the adults debate and discuss.

 

I'm going to concede that I don't know much about growing mar1juana but growing tomatoes are relatively easy yet people still buy tomatoes from the store. It seems to me even if people want to grow their own ganja there will still be a market for it.

 

The two have absolutely nothing in common. Allowing rampant drug use offers no positive benefit to society. Have you ever smoked pot? I have and I can tell you this.....productivity and motivation go right out the window.

The only reason they are even considering this is because the bloated government has spent all its money on failed programs, many of which the people voted down only to be overturned by the 9th district court of communist judges. They have run off all the business due to high taxes and in turn dwindled their tax base to a point that it cannot sustain the current setup.

Why don't we ever hear about down sizing government?

 

If enough money can be made off something
it can be made legal

Rocket River

 

And that is where the moral turpitude of society should kick in. Oh wait, most of the people who want this to go through are secularists and have no faith based morality. So I guess if its all up to the "me generation" then make my bud the chronic...

 

What kind of social impact would legalizing mar1juana have on gangs/dealers in lower class areas? What happens when those organized crime type units can't make the money they're used to making? Riots? Bank robbery? There is a segment of society that depends on weed being illegal...what happens with them? Hypotethically of course.

 

Part of regulation would be setting up harm reduction strategies to mitigate the effects that "rampant" drug users would have. By the way, we have "rampant" drug use now, but our policies only make things worse for everyone.

The key point here is that most people who use drugs do so responsibly, especially when you are talking about mar1juana. I prefer to trust the individual to exercise personal responsibility over government sticking its nose into everyone's bloodstream.

Are you CCFCP?

Regulating recreational pharmaceuticals would represent a massive downsizing in government.

 

That is the beauty of regulation. You take the massive piles of money out of these criminals' hands at one fell swoop. They lose power and relevance as a result. Some might move into other criminal enterprises, but we saw a massive downturn in organized crime power and organization after we repealed alcohol prohibition, and I believe we would see a similar downturn in crime after repealing the war on drugs.

If they choose to commit other crimes, we will have double our current police power to bring them to justice as drugs currently consume about half of our police forces' time, money, and efforts.

 

The drug war is far more immoral than drug use could ever be. It is a corrupting endeavor that has helped to decay our institutions from street cops up to entire governments.

Drug use is not, in and of itself, immoral. There are plenty of people who can have a few beers, smoke a few joints, and even use cocaine responsibly. There are certainly a lot of things we could do to help the people who cannot use drugs responsibly, much like we do for people who drink irresponsibly. Prohibition merely makes the problem worse by sending drug users underground.

 

a good % of mar1juana smokers in CA have used the laws that are already in place to protect them against getting busted and going to jail.

mar1juana is ALREADY decriminalized out here and almost anyone can get a prescription for medical mar1juana legally.

 

Sounds good. I don't smoke but i'd smoke to that!

 

This might apply in California, but it's def not the case in Texas and the rest of America.