Reply #62: We spend $40 Billion a year to keep a relatively benign psychoactive plant illegal.

[Warren DeMontague]

Not including costs of incarceration.

Let's go down your inane OP point by point, shall we?

The old laws would need to be replace,

So?

A ton of new laws would need to be brought in,

That's your argument? That it might be inconvenient from a legislative sense?

People would complain just as much about it,

So we're spending $40 Billion a year to keep the complaint level stable, then?

More people would end up driving while smoking it,

driving while under the influence is the crime, and should be- not using the substance.

These people would place more strain on the healthcare system due to things like lung cancer,

BULLSHIT.

It would not solve any real issues with Mexico and,

So? It also wouldn't fix the ozone layer. But it WOULD be a step for sanity and personal freedom.

It's simply not good for you.


The relative truth of this statement notwithstanding, there are lots of things that are "simply not good for you" that we don't throw CONSENTING ADULTS IN PRISON for doing.




Get a grip. Marijuana prohibition is insane, it's wasteful, it's cruel, it's fundamentally anti-liberty and anti-choice, and one of these days, it's going to end- and unless you happen to be someone with a vested financial interest in the drug$$$war$$$$, your sky is NOT going to fall.