RE: Is it time to legalize pot and reduce the death rate of tobacco and alcohol?
March 13, 2012 at 1:59 pm
(March 13, 2012 at 1:27 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It is in the best interests of the business of growing and selling pot for it to remain illegal, and, as we see, they are not beyond the use of deadly force to protect this business.
This latter point is one of the more compelling reasons for decriminalization or legalization.
Much the same as our experiment in the prohibition of alcohol, treating substance use, abuse, and addiction as a legal problem and not a social / medical one has been an absofuckinglute disaster.
But, yeah - it's not likely to happen any time soon. To many people are getting rich off of prohibition for that to happen.
