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12-24-2007 5:10 AM
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swampfoxz says:
If you still believe drugs should be illegal, answer this question... Why do you believe it is good policy to punish me--and 20 million adult Americans like me--because I choose to use marijuana in the privacy of my own home? Who benefits from this policy and how do they benefit?
* Over 300,000 nonviolent people lose their freedom to prison/jail.
* Thousands of murders, assaults, and robberies caused by drug crimes.
* $20 billion/year in law enforcement costs.
* $10 billion/year in lost tax revenue (similar to alcohol tax).
* $5 billion/year in property losses due to drug-related crimes.
* $50 billion/year and 500,000 jobs lost because of no hemp industry.

Total cost = $85 billion/year = $500 per taxpayer every year!
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12-24-2007 10:00 AM
michaelll
Why do you believe it is good policy to punish me--and 20 million adult Americans like me--because I choose to use marijuana in the privacy of my own home?
Looking at the clip and then reading this question will make it impossible to answer, one refers to all drugs and the other refers to something akin to a double scotch.

I have used marijuana once, it did nothing for me personally other than give me a headache, but i see no reason to keep this drug criminalised, however to going down the road of legalising all drugs would be entirely another matter and i am not convinced that it would be all positive.
12-24-2007 4:34 PM
AcesLucky
I'm not sure ANY victimless crime should be a crime. I could be wrong; I just can't think of one.
12-26-2007 5:14 PM
freakSqueeker
i couldn't agree with your clipmark anymore! child molesters do less time than someone caught with an oz. of kind! crazy! thanx for sharing... i'm one of the ones who uses kind for medicinal purposes, not hurting anyone.....fS
4-15-2009 1:51 AM
clip-on-tie
I feel like if people want to get cracked-out, then in doing so, tweak in the comfort of their own homes, instead of attempting to amputate their own arm inside a Denny's restaurant after the imaginary demons appear in their pancake. Or the "bugs" start crawling out of their skin.

Just be courteous of others. If a person needs to perform an amputation, stay at home and perform the operation where fewer people will be screaming from the ensuing horror. Plus the cops won't be there to tase you.
4-15-2009 1:54 AM
clip-on-tie
I must be cracked-out because I just realized this clip is over a year old.

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