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Originally posted by AkimboStylee
Check and mate!!! j/k
oh and i wasn't saying that government should legalize or decriminalize and whatnot because if anything they will legalize it so they can make money off of it. (if that makes any sense?)
also Did you know:
72.6% of all incarcerated peoples of the united states are drug offenders(half of those are for miniscule drugs like marijauna and salvia divinorum)
statistics from DEA and Norml drug offenders studies
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Check and mate? Hardly. Let's review, shall we?
1. As long as there are republicans and hardcore right wing christians pot will never be legal. They're the ones who started the "war on drugs" which, much like the "war on terrorism", has proven to be some of the most poorly thought out bullshit I've ever seen.
2. If it were to become legal it would be taxed and regulated and unlike other countries like Holland our rabid capitalism would eventually produce joints and/or loose product that was either sub par or loaded with additives to increase shelf life, enhance flavor, etc. Plus, like Az pointed out, people here are too lazy to do much of anything themselves so it's inevitable that pot would become just like cigarettes. The only people who would grow pot themselves are probably the people who do it now anyway...and I'd bet a good number of them would switch to making a run to the local 7-11 if they could.
3. Even if you do smoke pot, chances are that when you're sober and you encounter someone who's stoned, it annoys the living shit out of you. Look back at Darin's post about going to photo class and then getting blazed. Can you imagine going to a store and getting a clerk that acted like that? Or how about calling tech support and getting someone so stoned they can't tell shit from apple butter. Sure, it happens now and it probably wouldn't increase dramatically, but I can totally see that becoming a problem. Oh man...I hate dealing with people who are stoned.
As for the incracaration issue...I say "so what?". Is it a waste of taxpayer money? Probably. Do all of them deserve to be there? Probably not. But hey...they knew the rules of the game when they started playing. Besides...actual prison terms for drugs are most often reserved for either people carrying serious weight or habitual offenders...and fuck them. Most people with a dime or an ounce usually get at most 6 months in county, if not probation. Statistics about prisons are usually skewed anyway. I once read that black people make up 12.7% of the population in this country but make up just over 67% of the prison population. Does that mean black people are predisposed to crime? Maybe, maybe not. Saying that 72% of people incarcarated are in for drugs doesn't matter...they broke the law and they got caught.