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- riverstyx, on 10/18/2009, -4/+52Obviously nobody can lock up 166 million people, so something has to be wrong with the law if enough people are ignoring it because they don't see it a crime. Kinda like speeding..It's illegal and you might get a fine if you can't talk your way out of it, but everybody does it anyway.
I don't think total legalization will realistically happen anytime soon (Its more of a business to keep people in jail then to keep them out. Cops have bills to pay, and probation officers have to pay off their loans).
This is all due to the fearmongering of the drug war(s) and those insulting commercials we had to deal with. Nothing new though, Harry Anslinger did it over 80 years ago and they did it again during the 80's (Havent researched it enough to mention any other dates), blaming marijuana for why society is being flushed right down the toilet and using voodoo pharmacology to try to scare the public. Anyone remember that commercial of the stoned teenagers driving into a kid on a bike?
They played every card you can imagine and then some, but they're running out and obviously people aren't stupid, they're just defying an injust and outdated law; plain and simple.
I don't even personally use marijuana, even though I more then qualify for a state medical card due to my mental disability. Don't see a need for it, but at the same time I believe people have the right to make up their own mind, choose what's best for themselves, and if someone makes the wrong decisions to just learn from them. No big deal, thats life. Locking people up does nothing to prevent crime and petty crimes like smoking pot with your friends once a weekend hardly qualifies as criminal if you read the newspaper as often as I do.- daEvan, on 10/18/2009, -2/+9I think as time goes on, the truth about marijuana will spread. There will always be propaganda to combat this, but with this day and age of information, it's impossible to entirely shut out the truth. Anybody with an internet connection will learn the truth about pot just by typing it in Google. This wasn't the case in the past. So if people speak out about it, in time there will be fewer people that believe in these fake laws and eventually we'll have to legalize it.
- jarvadise, on 10/18/2009, -1/+4Speeding on the road could actually contribute to harm of yourself or others. :)
- inactive, on 10/18/2009, -0/+2still, the laws don't do ***** to prevent fatalities.
http://www.motorists.org/speedlimits/home/safety-s ...
- inactive, on 10/18/2009, -0/+2still, the laws don't do ***** to prevent fatalities.
- LordByr0n, on 10/18/2009, -0/+4Wow those poor poor cops... I do see what your saying though and completely agree!
- corruption07, on 10/18/2009, -0/+3If we're thinking of the same one, I do remember that PSA of the guys driving into the little girl on the bike, and as wrong as I know it is, it has to be the most unintentionally hilarious ad I've ever seen. I haven't been able to find in online, though. :(
- redleviathan69, on 10/18/2009, -0/+2Am I the only one who thinks "if you read the newspapers as often as I do" seems a little out of place?
- soulhakr, on 10/26/2009, -0/+0Actually, the issue isn't law enforcement making money. It would arguably be more profitable to legalize, but regulate its use like many other substances (e.g. alcohol, cigarettes, etc.) and also like drivers licenses (referring back to your traffic ticket example.) But since indentured servitude and debtor work-houses were outlawed, keeping the free-and-active underclass population under control has gotten a lot harder (referring to beachbumx3x's comments.)
