People that drink huge amounts of hard liquor now wear panties? Says the guy that brags about smoking but doesn't inhale.
You can take it sweetheart... And, if you know of anyone who claims to consistently inhale cigar smoke, they're lying to you. There's no reason to inhale. It makes for a miserable experience, and there's no benefit whatsoever. It's stupid.
Seriously though, I was a MUCH bigger danger to society in that state than Chad would be if he took a couple of tokes. It is what it is.
How do you compare consuming
huge amounts of hard liquor with
a couple of tokes from a joint? This doesn't make any sense to me.
Again, I personally don't like Pot. I think it fucking reeks and people who smoke it are typically morons. But who the hell am I to tell someone else they can't have something that is generally the same level of danger if not less, than things that are already legal? You are using Prohibition level logic here. All of yours and Tarheel's arguments against have been debunked by others on here - addictive? Of narcotics, cigs and alcohol, its the lesser of the 4. danger? again, no more than those 3. What exactly IS your issue with it?
Well, you say
debunked, but it's just a matter of personal opinion. The vitriol used by the pro-pot crowd has made me numb to the entire issue. I don't see a logical argument for pot legalization. I don't see a reasonable plan for how decriminalization could be achieved. Other than Tarheel, nobody has had a serious review of the regulations and infrastructure that would be necessary to support or enable legalization. So, I'll ask again... Why? What's the purpose? Where's the benefit? Give me a tangible reason other than, you
wanna new drug, man.
Don't mistake my cop resource argument with why I think it should be legal in some form. That is more of a side effect, not the reason. Ask any cop on the resource issues in most towns. One less thing to worry about is always a good thing. Any kind of bust no matter how minor will take up resources. The prison thing is more the good side effect to me than the patrol stops. Again, this is a possible good side effect, not the reason I am advocating it happen.
Well, that's you... But, many on the pro-pot side believe that the War on Drugs would be far less costly if marijuana were to be decriminalized. The fact is, we'd really just be shifting the costs from policing it to regulating it. We'd still have bans on illegal imports. We'd still have bans on the illegal distribution of it. We'd have to regulate it's manufacture, processing and distribution. We'd likely even have to put the FDA in charge of it. And as for taxes, after you put all of those controls, regulations and new laws in place, the tax revenue would likely be insignificant when compared to the costs necessary to support it. If I'm wrong, give me a legitimate analysis. Show me how it could work.
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