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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Hemp is not the same thing as Marijuana.
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Yet the US doesn't (or didn't? I really don't know anymore) make any distinction between the two. The US is so freaking uptight about this issue you can't even make such items as non-psychoactive herbal tea out of hemp. Comes from a plant in the cannabis family.
Pot bad, 50 cal. good... welcome to the "States."
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Originally Posted by snowy
there are lots of other costs to keeping marijuana illegal.
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Imagine if you took what we spend on LEO to find and harass drug users and put it into treatment programs or health care and education. People who have addictions- alcohol, meth and other powders, pot, whatever could be dealt with in a clinical setting rather then warehoused in a correctional one. People who don't have addiction issues could be left alone, just like social drinkers are now. I'd bet you could do that and still fund some health care and education programs, non-substance or substance related wouldn't matter.
Seriously prohibition didn't work for shit with booze and it isn't working with other substances either. All we're doing is keeping a paramilitary industry and several gangs employed fighting each other and among themselves.