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Re: National Legalization of Marijuana
So legalize pot and the cartels no longer are involved. Instead we could be paying U.S. farmers to grow a legal weed same way we pay U.S. brewers to make beer.
FWIW, I can't justify harsh penalties for selling something and light penalties for buying it and using it. It's the same voluntary, mutually beneficial market transaction, and it seems that both parties to it should be facing somewhat equivalent legal risks. I'm not accusing you of this, but this kind of disparate treatment seems justifiable only because for most people THEIR kid isn't the low life scum dealer, he's just a normal kid smoking a little pot.
Where I would favor harsh penalties is dealers selling to minors, or for that matter adults supplying it to minors. That's where we all agree the law should step in.
Not at all the same thing as prohibition. For the record I am good with reform in the criminal aspect. I would focus more energy on an education campaign to deter and shun pot smoking much like has been done with smoking cigarettes. I would heighten the penalties for distribution and transport and simply administer citations low level possession. I think if the media would focus a bit more on the tens of thousands of Mexican deaths caused by the cartels in the transportation of pot and other illegal drugs people might count the cost of their toke with a little more trepidation.
So legalize pot and the cartels no longer are involved. Instead we could be paying U.S. farmers to grow a legal weed same way we pay U.S. brewers to make beer.
FWIW, I can't justify harsh penalties for selling something and light penalties for buying it and using it. It's the same voluntary, mutually beneficial market transaction, and it seems that both parties to it should be facing somewhat equivalent legal risks. I'm not accusing you of this, but this kind of disparate treatment seems justifiable only because for most people THEIR kid isn't the low life scum dealer, he's just a normal kid smoking a little pot.
Where I would favor harsh penalties is dealers selling to minors, or for that matter adults supplying it to minors. That's where we all agree the law should step in.
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