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Originally Posted by August
Really? More than the cost of prosecuting and incarcerating millions of people for years, even decades? More than the cost of funding criminal organizations and the violence they cause?
Cigarette smoking causes far more lung disease and related medical expenses but it's legal. Alcohol causes far more disease and related costs to society but it's legal. Sorry I just don't buy the idea that the government has a right to protect people from themselves, especially when there is no rhyme or reason to it.
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Incarceration of millions for pot infractions for years or decades does not happen. Most of it is street level justice. Throw the crap away in the gutter and move along. Just the larger dealers who sell more than pot get the years of incarceration. Pot is only part of the larger drug problem. This will not stop the money spent on the larger drug problem that pot is only a part of.
Adding pot smoking on top of cigarette smokers does not help the lung disease problem. It only enhances it. Two wrongs do not make a right. Alcohol has nothing to do wth this conversation.