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Originally Posted by Ustwo
It always amazes me that people are willing to risk their personal freedom to indulge in an activity which, according to everyone it seems, is non-habit forming and not harmful.
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Isn't that the situation with control of any vice? Where there's a market...
Pot production today shows striking similarites to alcohol production during prohibition.
I've always wondered if the tax potential of legalizing weed would overcome resistance from legal vice suppliers and the stigma we've cultivated for so many years. Otherwise, if we're better off as a society without its influences, should we restrict other mind altering influences for the same reasons?
Why not TV? 
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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