Bfgrn
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Good point. Pot is the "diet coke" of drugs. We already discriminate between legal and illegal recreational drugs with having alochol and tobacco legal. It is just a question of "moving the line"
Some drugs, however should remain illegal, stuff like heroin and meth, and probably coke. They can have far more impact on a persons life than pot and say ecstasy.
The worst thing that happens to pot smokers is usually weight gain due to constant "dude i want white castle" cravings.
I don't really care if they were to legalize marijuana, because I'm not going to smoke it and I'm not going to sit around watching others do it. It's the same with tobacco for me.
But by legalizing marijuana, we set a standard of "moving the line," as you say. Once we move it once, others will want to move it again. We have drawn a line, and once we erase it, it will be hard to keep it intact.
We moved "the line" to make cannibus illegal in the first place.
Moving it back is a good idea.
Total waste of resources policing something so harmless as hemp.
Actually it goes much farther than that editec. Marijuana is not only the most harmless drug, vs alcohol, the most destructive, hemp is the most versatile and useful plant on the planet. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp. Drafts of our founding documents were written on paper made from hemp. Henry Ford constructed a car of resin stiffened hemp fiber, and even ran the car on ethanol made from hemp.
In the 1985 book, The Emperor Wears No Clothes the author offers $100,000 to anyone who can disprove the claims made within:
"If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for paper and construction were banned in order to save the planet, reverse the Greenhouse Effect and stop deforestation; then there is only one known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing the overall majority of the world's paper and textiles; meet all of the world's transportation, industrial and home energy needs, while simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil, and cleaning the atmosphere all at the same time... and that substance is -- the same one that did it all before -- Cannabis Hemp... Marijuana!"
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
President John F. Kennedy