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Originally Posted by Stompy
Grondar hit the nail on the head - there really isn't a cogent argument as to why marijuana should remain illegal. I've had debates with the best of people on this and I have yet to see ONE valid argument for it that can't be applied to something else that's perfectly legal and controlled already.
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And right here, you come so very close to the one argument that I could see succeeding: alcohol ideally should be made illegal, too, for the dangerous effects they have. But prohibition showed the impracticality of alcohol criminalization. Thus, the difference between criminalizing alcohol and criminalizing marijuana is that the former is still feasible. Perhaps if alcohol was closer to being the taboo that marijuana is (and I'm aware that it's not a complete taboo by any stretch of the imagination), it would still be feasible to criminalize alcohol as well. But it's still possible for marijuana, and the dangers (physical and psychological) of marijuana justify it.
(For the record, I support marijuana legalization.)