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11 Feb 2009, 1:43 pm

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Does legalization mean unrestricted, totally unmonitored use? How about people just smoke up in the privacy of their own homes and not everywhere, anytime? Obviously, we can't have people getting high on the job. Crane operators, surgeons, bankers, none of these people should show up to work stoned.


The rules should be the same as drinking and smoking. (Not sure how that would be monitored since thc shows up the urine a lot longer than alcohol - yet is never as impairing as alcohol.)

Smoking-wise, it should follow the same laws as local tobacco smoking laws.

Perhaps pot offends you on an ethical, religious, or other dogmatic level - but the health and economic benefits and facts are worth looking in to. Not to say you should take it up - but maybe you will be a little less offended by people who do smoke.



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11 Feb 2009, 3:09 pm

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Perhaps pot offends you on an ethical, religious, or other dogmatic level


Not really.



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11 Feb 2009, 11:18 pm

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What kind of social changes would be triggered by legalizing pot, apart from the most obvious?


You'd deprive cartels of a massive source of revenue, you'd free up police time and resources for other crimes, etc. Liquor gangs haven't been shooting at one another in the streets of Chicago since the end of Prohibition, and Amsterdam isn't exactly a hotspot of cartel violence. As has been mentioned, legalising pot would potentially be a massive source of tax revenue (the need for such revenue was part of the reason for ending Prohibition).
Not that it is likely to interest you, but ending the war on drugs would save some countries quite a lot of bloodshed.

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11 Feb 2009, 11:26 pm

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slowmutant wrote:
What kind of social changes would be triggered by legalizing pot, apart from the most obvious?


You'd deprive cartels of a massive source of revenue, you'd free up police time and resources for other crimes, etc. Liquor gangs haven't been shooting at one another in the streets of Chicago since the end of Prohibition, and Amsterdam isn't exactly a hotspot of cartel violence. As has been mentioned, legalising pot would potentially be a massive source of tax revenue (the need for such revenue was part of the reason for ending Prohibition).
Not that it is likely to interest you, but ending the war on drugs would save some countries quite a lot of bloodshed.

The war on drugs: making the world safe for hypocrisy.


Oh, yeah - that reminds me. At least as far as the US is concerned, the sad, sick, escalating violence along the Mexican border would be reduced significantly. So sad to think of all those people dying such violent deaths just so people in America can "escape and mellow out".

Just doesn't make sense for something that is so easy to grow...doesn't need a lot of water, nutrients, or attention - just sun. Literally - a weed.


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