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You cannot legislate morality. This has been proved on many issues through the millenia. Cannabis is a plant, which has hundreds of uses, from industrial lubricants to clothing. As to the recreational uses, there is no overdose level, as there is with alcohol and other drugs. No anecdotal evidence exists about anyone ever getting violent after smoking cannabis. It increases creativity in many individuals, including this one.
The medicinal benefits are being discovered weekly, it seems. It may increase brain cell production. It is an analgesic, eases anxiety, and we all have heard about the benefits for cancer patients.
The "War on Drugs" (how one wages a war on an inanimate object has always puzzled me) has cost billions, put millions of people (mostly people of color) in jail needlessly (because it is a victimless crime) to the point where we now incarcerate more people than any other nation on earth. China and India both have 1 billion+ people and do not have as many prisoners as we do.
The price tag for this "war" is in the tens of billions of dollars, and demand is higher than ever. Even people who would not partake of cannabis see the logic in abolishing the draconian drug laws that benefit only law enforcement, the prison industry, and the legal profession, while putting a lifelong stigma on many otherwise law-abiding citizens, whose only "crime" was smoking a joint, and having a few more grams of cannabis in their pocket. Are we a free country or not? Do we have the right to put into our adult bodies the substances that give us pleasure, or not?
Prohibition has led to the same thing it did in Chicago in the 1920's. Powerful dangerous, murderous gangs, looking to increase their profit while prohibition is in effect. End the prohibition, end the gangs, end the violence, end the profit to the gangs.
The Federal government could reap hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue, new "green" industries would spring up, backed by venture capital, and the police can get back to doing their real job, catching violent and dangerous criminals.
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