My position on this is that, solely from the legal point of view, there is no logical reason to treat marijuana differently from alcohol. Either both are legal, and regulated, or both are prohibited.
More dangerous drugs raise more complicated problems. Through most of human history, opiates and other drugs were legal, and taken in (relatively) diluted forms. Opium pipes. Chewing coca leaves. The Sumerians cultivated "joy plants" (poppies) in 3400 BC. There were still addictive issues, but apparently not lethal enough to select susceptibility to addiction out of the human race.
Now we get drugs engineered and concentrated to very dangerous and highly-addictive levels. I don't have a pat answer for how to treat this legally. Prohibition creates, by its very nature, black markets and criminal activity. Are we better off treating more victims of addiction, or supporting vast criminal enterprises?
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- Legalizing Marijuana More Popular Than Republicans
- Drug Prohibition Is an Unmitigated Disaster.
- It's really a devastating drug in many ways.
- It has its dangers. People must learn to avoid such drugs.
- " the most dangerous drug out there".
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- Yes, Republicanism has been a devastating addiction since 1980, and we're just recovering now (n/t)
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- Maybe Michael Phelps will be back on the Kellogs box soon (n/t)
- Guess the country really has gone to pot.