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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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Oh if only drugs were legal, all of our problems would be solved!
The air would be fresher (well at least if you aren't around someone smoking marijuana, man that stuff reeks), the poor would no longer be poor, and our clothes would be made out of wonderous hemp.
I'd be for 100% drug legalization but only in a libertarian government.
Do what you want, but when you are stoned in the gutter starving from your various addictions, fucking get it over with and die, cheaply.