[crestorinfo]

I have never smoked and support legalization.

Only for American grown weed, right now, or other countries where it is legalized.

JM

Do you know that Jack Daniels is produced in a dry county? That's right, it's illegal to sell it where it's made.

ACK!

[legal-advicer]

Put it in a taxi??

[ResuNezily]

No, and I smoke marijuana currently (WTF!)

Well, someone may vote for this if they are a drug dealer, as the War on Drugs artificially keeps the prices higher.

And if someone believes that legalization would increase the price, they don't have any idea of basic economics.

[johnstylet]

Undecided. I don't smoke it.

[EspnaConCam]

Do you actually think that inflation adjusted, that the price for alcohol was cheaper during Prohibition than it is today?

[Jourgenz]

From CATO institute analysis:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/31267826/A...olicy-Analysis

Fisher used retail alcohol prices to demonstrate that Prohibition was working by raising the price and decreasing the
quantity produced. However, his price quotations also revealed that the Iron Law of Prohibition was at work. The price
of beer increased by more than 700 percent, and that of brandies increased by 433 percent, but spirit prices in creased
by only 270 percent, which led to an absolute in crease in the consumption of spirits over pre-Prohibition levels. Inflation hasn't increased by anything close to that.

[cewIdeatovace]

[Gvadelunar]

I'm sure most of you have heard the phrase that the only people who support marijuana legalization are people who smoke it. While that is in fact true, atleast for the most part, I still don't understand the potheads.

[pesty4077]

Wait, guys, is bc1871 trolling? It's just hard to believe...

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[Cyclicymn]

As per Druids, and the like they generally are nothing more than a burden on the welfare system, and will with no doubt in my mind, either turn to drug abuse or the welfare system, so for the good of these rather misguided people, it’d be better if the government put a stop to their rather degenerate lifestyle in the first place.

Really? Prove it. Show me some statistics.

[teridbruse]

Al B. Sure! Alpha Protocol bc1871 Donegeal onodera trev
This list is pretty much a listing of the most fun people on the board, no?

[ptolerezort]

Do you actually think that inflation adjusted, that the price for alcohol was cheaper during Prohibition than it is today?

Well maybe that's the difference Imran. In this country we don't have a retarded, never ending, "war on drugs". Pot is readily available on short notice. As I said before, supply is not an issue here.

edit - In fact, I received a Christmas bonus from my supplier.

[rorsvierwelia]

I'm somewhat surprised at the lack of potheads on this forum... maybe prohibition works after all?

This board is just full of overachievers.

[Weislenalkata]

#2. I have a kid now and besides, I don't have any connections.

It's prohibition 2.0, and it's working about as well as the original. The only difference is the duration.

Legalize, regulate & tax. The outcome would be more good than bad (as with any policy, there will be good and bad outcomes).

Ah, but then what do you do with coke, heroin, acid, etc.? Logically, the answer is the same. But those are scarier than pot.

-Arrian

I can never see a reason for fully legalizing and taxing meth as it is currently consumed by addicts.

[ElcinBoris]

By the way, MRT, I know you're not an uptight moralist or prude, that second paragraph is more for the marijuana issue than meth. Meth is scary ****, it is very harmful and addictive, and reasonable people can abhor it. I just think that drug problems are best treated as medical problems, and the first step to doing that is by removing criminal penalties for use.

[Jellowstrom]

If you're going to legalize marijuana either as a commercial product or a drug you're still going to have to address the rather hefty problem that the stuff is choc o' block packed with carcinogens. The human epidemiological studies that have been conducted so far have been so small and so poorly designed that they're worthless. Amongst the major problems with that sort of study is that currently most people who smoke dope either cease to do so or sharply curtail their consumption when they grow up. If you made a study of the health risks of cigarette smoking but confined it to people who quit smoking (or cut down to one butt per month) at age 30 cigarettes wouldn't look so bad either. If marijuana were legalized though people's habits would certainly change, they would smoke more and would be more likely to continue toking up through later in life. Let's not forget about second hand smoke either. No one has ever completed a serious large scale animal carcinogenicity study either.