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I have a debate tomorrow and I'm on the side of keeping marijuana illegal. I have done some research but does anybody have any crazy ideas that might help me earn some brownie points with the professor?
The only people who benefit from marijuana being illegal are dealers and law enforcement....
So if we legalize mj we will have unemployed drug dealers and drug enforcement officers. Unemployed people turn to alcohol. An increase in drunks with guns/cars will mean more gun deaths and drunk driving accidents. So you see keeping mj illegal keeps drunk gun weilding ex-dealers and DEA officers from running amok in the streets....
Exactly.Just use the arsenal of ignorance and propaganda that the government, news, and religious nuts use, and you should be fine. The ground work has already been laid. Just use whats already there.
The only people who benefit from marijuana being illegal are dealers and law enforcement....
So if we legalize mj we will have unemployed drug dealers and drug enforcement officers. Unemployed people turn to alcohol. An increase in drunks with guns/cars will mean more gun deaths and drunk driving accidents. So you see keeping mj illegal keeps drunk gun weilding ex-dealers and DEA officers from running amok in the streets....
My response was just satire, of course drug enforcement officers would continue to have a job and drug dealers would just change to different substances. I already know a few cops who admit they could care less about weed anymore, they have their hands full with meth to waste time with a mild high inducer....The Drug Enforcement officers can be focus on a bigger drug problem like Meth.......
Personally I think Weed is okay.......I would much have someone be stoned than drunk any day.I worked at a hospital and the drunks that come in are the worst......
weed is illegal because the government knows there is no way to control and tax it like they can alcohol.
alcohol brings billions of dollars into the government via taxes, if they could do the same with weed they would.
No one dies from smoking weed, it's not physically addictive, it does not make people violent, whereas alcohol addictive, makes people violent and kills thousands of people every year. I think we would be much better off if weed were legal and alcohol illegal.
I agree 95%. If you can tax tobacco, I think you can tax weed. I think it is too late to reverse the propoganda that has been put out for so many years about how pot is evil. Just like it is too late to reverse the trend of smokers. Getting people to stop smoking tobacco is just as hard as making people believe that pot is no moire dangerous than tobacco.
The opposer's of decriminalizing Marijuana, over here in UK, tend to follow the ..."Marijuana is a gateway into other drugs" argument.
Personally, i think other substances ae more guilty of this..tobacco, alcohol, etc.
Our city centre, here in Bristol, on a weekend, is full of party going people, who are more drunk , than stoned. More violence is associated with alcohol, whereas
Marijuana users tend to be quite the opposite..ie..relaxed.
The police, and hospitals, are pretty busy, on generally weekends, cleaning up drunken crowds etc.
Prisons have far too many pocession, and similarly charged inmates.
Wasn't cannabis available on prescription at one time?
There were a number of MS suffers, who swore by its pain relief effects, as well as others.
Politicians are just too paranoid to do the right thing, and allow informed individuals to choose for themselves.
I agree 95%. If you can tax tobacco, I think you can tax weed. I think it is too late to reverse the propoganda that has been put out for so many years about how pot is evil. Just like it is too late to reverse the trend of smokers. Getting people to stop smoking tobacco is just as hard as making people believe that pot is no moire dangerous than tobacco.