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should marijuana be legal?

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Legalizing it allows us to better regulate it...or at least I would imagine that might be the case. We could also reap the tax benefits from its massive trade.
 
Originally posted by: bamacre
Why are none of the candidates talking about the war on drugs?
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Because, like the military-industrial complex, the prohibition machinery is an extremely powerful government-funded special interest.
A lot of the dreamers here don't understand sh!t about democracy, but instead of this kind of petulant child notion that democracy is whatever the people might vote for. What they don't understand is that institutions, once voted into power and money, become special interest powerhouses with their own bureaucratic momentum to control every election.

We can't stop fighting in Iraq because "Defense" is $500 billion+ per year powerhouse. Elected officials dare not go against that because any cut in spending WILL cost jobs.

Likewise with the drug prohibition, to the tune of more than $100 billion a year. How many cops, judges, and correction guards will lose their jobs? So yaknow how they will vote. Just like all the military people who voted for Bush.

The desire to intoxicate has sh!t to do with that.

Can you imagine what it will be like if we were to socialize the entire $2 trillion per year health industry? We won't even have democracy anymore.
 
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
You would think that a country in which the citizens are allowed to own guns that there would be no pot laws or no living police so there's something wrong with the promise of the second amendment or something wrong with the people's notion of freedom. I think there will be pot laws as long as people either don't believe or hypocritically, don't practice what they preach.
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I just had this funny vision of Moonbeam going back in time and giving Thomas Jefferson/Ben Franklin a hard time for not writing the terribly important topic of alcohol/drugs into our founding law documents.. and Tom/Frank just give him a silent 😕 face in response.
 
Originally posted by: hellokeith
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
You would think that a country in which the citizens are allowed to own guns that there would be no pot laws or no living police so there's something wrong with the promise of the second amendment or something wrong with the people's notion of freedom. I think there will be pot laws as long as people either don't believe or hypocritically, don't practice what they preach.
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I just had this funny vision of Moonbeam going back in time and giving Thomas Jefferson/Ben Franklin a hard time for not writing the terribly important topic of alcohol/drugs into our founding law documents.. and Tom/Frank just give him a silent 😕 face in response.
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They did address those topics.
Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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As there is no reference to drugs or alcohol in the constitution, it's covered by the 10th Amendment. Federal drug laws are unconstitutional.
 
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