Numerous studies have debunked Anslinger's "Gateway Drug" crap. I just don't get how you decriminalize it based on quantity and expect things to be much different. Cops are still going to waste their time searching people for drug violations, even after the law. You'll have less guys in prison, I guess.
I'd imagine employers will still engage in drug testing. I don't want the newly legal potheads doing anything that involves quality control or safety.
Common sense: If legalized, it needs to be lumped into the "booze" category and not the "cigarettes" category as far as use time acceptability.
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Originally Posted by Redlemon
Will pot lose some of its allure if it is legalized?
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Research has shown that, within a lifetime, it may even stay the same. The "public education" regarding the drug is pretty strong one way or the other. Those who currently engage in its use will continue, those who don't probably won't. It'd be like legalizing sex in public... the 'occurrence of the activity probably wouldn't change a lot because of the current public perception is that it is still taboo. Give it a generation or two to see any change.
I'd like to think that people would refrain from it because it's unhealthy. Look at how tobacco use has declined over the last 50 years.
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I'm all kinds of mixed up about this. From a law enforcement perspective, if they can unfuck it so the police aren't wasting valuable patrol hours chasing and caging these types... I'm for it. Marijuana, as a drug, isn't incredibly criminogenic. Rumor has it that it makes hungry slothlike giggle-people.
Generally speaking, I dislike schedule drugs and people that use them, partly because the negative stereotypes have always been reinforced.