I don't smoke it and I would kick my kids ass if I caught them smoking it. I would not allow friends to smoke it in my house. But, the current method of fighting it within the United States is an utter failure.
I do not buy the following arguments:
- On the health side of the equation, scientific consensus is that while cannabis may pose some health risks, they are less serious than those posed by alcohol and tobacco.
- This is a crap argument. There is no such thing as a little cancer. Tobacco and alcohol are also bad for you, that's it.
- Government is always wrong on magical tax revenue increases and it will be here as well.
- Jails are expensive. Far too many people have been incarcerated for smoking pot.
- Buy American not Mexican, Colombian, Jamaican, etc.
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Humboldt County, California: the future of American agricultural wealth.
In all seriousness, I favor legalization so we can legalize a more important and entirely non-narcotic form of cannabis: industrial hemp. You want to save a forest? Hemp. You want to save American agriculture? Hemp. You want to give tobacco farmers an alternative that will make them $$$ without killing children? Hemp. You want to lower obesity? Hemp (oils).
It really is an interesting historical event. Legalizing a product that while we were growing up, was illegal. No more communists, no more John Wayne movies, and now this. My childhood is being shot to hell.
The excellent and duly answer.
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