Marijuana and the law

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It's still illegal for largely the same reasons, and also because it will seriously wound other enterprises as mentioned, such as alcohol and tobacco companies.

I think you're fooling yourselves by claiming such theories as "it will hurt the tobacco industry","it'll finish off alcohol". These are nothing but stories that you tell yourself, I think. And it shows me that you are hoping that marijuana will rise in popularity over alcohol and cigarettes, meaning, it will become a "generic" habit that you can see in normal society.
This is why it should be illegal, due to people like you, trying force this drug on society.

The benefits of full legalization and regulation far outweigh the negatives. Cartels/dealers lose business, millions of sick people feel better, arrest rates and prison population go down, money spent on pursuing growers goes towards other things, the deficit plummets, jobs are created, and people everywhere will chill the fuck out about the little things. Just to name a few. I'm sure I missed something.

Please tell me how cartels will lose their business by legalization?
They won't, they'll just probably be happy because they won't need to use round-about ways just to sell their wares. Millions of sick people? Who are those?

Besides, legalizing drugs and drug trade as a means of lowering arrest rates and prison populations is kind of stupid. If you legalize a previously illegal thing, of course people are not going to be arrested on that accord, and will not be put in jail. Legalize child porn for instance. Its the same thing if you ask me. Legalizing child porn would also stop the moneyspent on pursuing those who watch it, and obviously it will lower government spending by a large measure by the means you've just described.
So really, what good is there to legalize a social ill to make more money?
Obviously its purpose is self-defeating.

The arrest rate for marijuana use is absurd and there are way too many people in jail for it. It's embarrassing.

Well, I guess not enough for them to pursue this stupid agenda.
Go USA! I support you on this one.