Agreed 100% On Jul 4, 1:52 pm, Hollywood <[email protected]> wrote: > Frederick, > > It definately should be de-criminalized. It most certainly causes less > health & social damage than alcohol & tobacco. I'd regulate it and tax > it much like booze and cigarettes. The tax revenues would be enormous, > although that might be offset by reduced sales of booze. The saving to > society in general would be significant.Something like 75% of all the > people in prison are there due to minor drug possession violations. Of > course much of those are for drugs other than marijuana. Anyway, we > such as hell could cut the budgets of the bureau of prisons, DEA, > numerous police depts. etc. etc. > Which, of course, is mainly why it's doubtful MaryJane will be > legalized. When a politician talks about budget cutting and balancing > he/she of course is talking about SOMEONE/ANYONE else's budget or > department. > > On Jul 4, 12:40 pm, Frederick The Moderate > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm kinda on the fence about this one. Dad's very conservative and > > makes some good points against. Mom's more liberal and makes good > > points for. > > What do you think?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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