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Originally Posted by levite
100% true. This idiotic drug war wastes money that could go to improving public education, assisting the poor to escape from poverty, and housing the homeless-- not to mention funding a national health care system. We overcrowd our prisons with drug prisoners-- disproportionately poor people and people of color, and prioritize penalizing people for vices and addictions more than for harming others.
Not only that, but by criminalizing marijuana in especial, we prevent its widespread use as a cheap and gentle medication for people in need of such, and we prevent the growing of industrial hemp to make particle board, paper, cloth, and oil,-- all of which would be biodegradable, and have a far, far lower impact on the environment than the wood scraps, wood pulp, cotton, and petroleum we currently employ.
The DEA is a self-perpetuating money hole, and the only ones who truly benefit from this drug war are the oil, logging, paper, cotton, and pharmaceuticals industries.
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Hemp could be a viable solution for many issue in the US. But basically you can't grow it. You can but you have to apply for a special license. Last I heard, and it's been a while so I could be wrong, you have a better chance of getting a visa stamp to visit Cuba then to grow Hemp. A few are handed out each year, mostly for research. So far the federal government has turned a blind eye to the vast majority of that research.
Many of the founding fathers grew hemp. A large percentage of military uniforms were made from hemp, in WWII! Up until about 75 years ago it was a huge part of the economy for states such as Kentucky.
My apologies for the thread jack. But I do feel laws regarding prostitution are just as stupid. You want to get stone and visit a brothel, as long as you take a cab or have a buddy drive... knock yourself out. I seriously don't see much difference between smoking a bowl and doing several shots of tequila. Personally I'd rather share the road with a stoner then a drunk.
And no I'm not some pot smoking whore monger. But I certainly could be where I live, there's plenty of both to be had. Simply fact is neither work for me. Pot makes me paranoid and hungry, other then that not much. 25 years ago I saw a hooker while I was in the Navy. Being with someone who's simply interested in me for my cash doesn't exactly rock my world. Not to mention the STD thought would be rolling around in my head so much I doubt I could get it up. 25 years ago being drunk and young solved that problem. Don't see that happening now.