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Originally Posted by timalkin
There's a huge difference between medicinal drug use prescribed by a doctor and abusing a drug just to have fun.
Medical use = good.
Recreational abuse = bad.
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Timalkin, you seem to put a lot of faith in doctors. Do you honestly believe that if a doctor prescribes something it is healthy? Have you read or listened to the side effects of numerous legal prescription drugs? They are far more dangerous than pot. Of course, I don't see how this goes with the discussion. Unless you want to go this way with it. Marijuana doesn't have many strange, fatal side effects like other man-made prescriptions do. Therefore, mj should be allowed to be sold OTC, which in turn would make it legal.
You have your opinion that people should not partake in mind altering substances. That is fine. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But this is a stand-still argument with people standing on the opposite side of the fence.
RB: Are you saying that there is more money made enforcing the prohibition of pot than would be made through taxing it? I was under the impression that the criminal circuit was overloaded and costing money. It seems that taxing pot would save money because even though the people busted for having pot are paying heavy fines, they are costing tax payers in court costs and paperwork. (I admit that I didn't read the compact 4-page article because since this is a pub discussion I want an overview. I could easily go on my own and research, but I do enough of that at work and enjoy discussing ideas with people over reading articles.) So I'm trying to get the gist of what you are saying.