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Marginalizing it because of it's source doesn't work. Just because it's something that you can grow in your own home doesn't necessarily make it a more reasonable argument to legalize it.
If nukes grew on trees, ya know?
everything comes from the earth. the car you drive, the food you eat, the clothes you wear.
it's just a matter of how much it's been processed and mix with other components, heat, etc.
On can help you, one can kill you. It is of the interest of the government to protect it's people. Not just from a "if you're alive, we can tax you" standpoint, but from a morally positive standpoint.
Protecting families by trying to keep things out of the hands of children so that their parents don't have to suffer the grief of losing a child to somethind dangerous needlessly.
Granted, for some reason MJ fell in to this category, but legalizing it because it's a plant = not an argument. legalizing it because it's economically sound, and scientifically proven to be safe = an argument.
I mean by your logic we should legalize heroin.
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