Rekna

South Dakota also has a similar bill on the ballot but only for medical purposes (it will defiantly fail though). I don't smoke pot, and probably never will. But I fully support legalizing it and here is why.

If you legalize it first and foremost you can control it better. They can tax it to generate revenue and more importantly take the money out of the drug dealers and terrorists hands. Cutting the drug dealers profits down 75% is going to stop a lot of them from dealing. Finally I think the measures should go further and allow people to grow it themselves thus completely eliminating the drug dealing market for this drug. But to me the biggest perk of allowing growth is that it will lessen the medical costs for many people and stop the big drug companies from over charging on meds. Why is the government forcing people to spend billions of dollars on drugs when they could spend pennies at home for meds that are just as effective?

Here is what I would like to see. People who wish to grow their own have to purchase a growers license yearly, there would be different licenses (ie personal use, distributing license ect). The money generated from this license goes to educating children about the use of ALL drugs and their dangers, including alcohol. People who don't pay the taxes are guilty of tax evasion and would be prosecuted as such.

So in summary lets see what happens. Crime is reduced, sick people feel better, greater tax revenues, money is moved from the drug dealers, terrorists, and drug companies hands back to the people, and children know more about the effects of all drugs.

Now tell me what is the down part of this? I am a firm believer that the only reason pot has not been legalized is because our politicians have been bought off by lobbyists from the drug companies who what to protect their monopoly on medicine.

Anyone ever wonder why Europe doesn't have nearly the problems the US does with binge drinking? Maybe because they have it growing up and it isn't such a huge deal when they go to college.