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Originally posted by onetime2
I've refrained from commenting since my opinions generally vary greatly with the legalization crowd.
I just have some questions that may (or may not) generate some discussion. Let's say we go the "legalization" route on drugs.
Which would be legalized? Just pot? All drugs? LSD, speed, coke, crack, etc? If not all of them, then you'll still have a vast network of drug dealers and users who resort to violence to achieve their goals.
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onetime@, this is the discussion I was hoping to bring out.
My feeling is that we should legelize pot and the plan should be as follows. If it were legal to grow pot but not to sell it, you take the least harmful drug and remove both the money spent on it and the money that law enforcement spends on it. Also you would need to have a place to grow it. That means you would have to own land or grow indoors. This would limit but not stop the use by minors. After all it can't be easy to hide six foot smelly plants from your parents, and minors don't own much land. This also makes taxing pot a non issue. As for those who grow for profit, as I stated at earlier federal prisons are for violent crimes. We could look for alternative punishments for sellers (maybe community service or something). I think if you make them work with underprivleged or children born addicted because of thier parents actions, it could have the greatest effect, but what do I know. Also I think addictive drugs like herion should be considered differently, I have know too many addicts and at some point they all lost their ability to make the chioce to do drugs or not to. If you are making a profit by creating brain dead slaves to your product, there needs to be a serious punishment. So far nobody has addressed this fact.