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Should marijuana be legalized?

Should we legalize pot?


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Yes, but then who will fill up all the prisons?
How about all the idiots who ensured it remained illegal in the first place?
 
Yes, but then who will fill up all the prisons?

Prisons are also wastes of money. Call me radical, but why aren't our landfills being worked by felons? Why isn't our trash being picked up by felons? It is helpful and when they get done with this detainment they wont be as far behind the times and they would be less likely to be repeat offenders.
 
Prisons are also wastes of money. Call me radical, but why aren't our landfills being worked by felons? Why isn't our trash being picked up by felons? It is helpful and when they get done with this detainment they wont be as far behind the times and they would be less likely to be repeat offenders.

Gosh, that sounds a kind of right wing law and order sort of response for someone in favor of legalization. Maybe it really isn't a right/left issue after all.
 
Felons do pick up trash, cut grass, fix streets, maintain city lights, signs, clean municipal buildings, do KP in the Senior Nutrition Centers...

In most small towns down this way more guys wearing INMATE on their shirt do government work than free folk. It has been a blessing for cash strapped towns, and counties here though laid off guys might not think so.

Now I don't think most citizens would appreciate multiple murderers, child molesters, rapists, insane criminals mowing the grass outside the library or day care center, but plenty minor felons sure are. One day when I went to town all but one man digging up the street to repair a broken water line had INMATE on his back, to include the backhoe operator.
 
Prisons are also wastes of money. Call me radical, but why aren't our landfills being worked by felons? Why isn't our trash being picked up by felons? It is helpful and when they get done with this detainment they wont be as far behind the times and they would be less likely to be repeat offenders.

Because anybody who has been convicted for anything can never ever be trusted with anything else ever again, which is why not only can we not let them do work while in prison, we also cannot allow them to do any work when they get out of prison.

And wonder why it is that they turn back to crime in order to make ends meet.
 
Would you shoot up heroin if it were legal? I sure as hell wouldn't.

The same people who would do heroin after it is legalized are those same people who would do heroin while it is criminalized.
 
Because anybody who has been convicted for anything can never ever be trusted with anything else ever again, which is why not only can we not let them do work while in prison, we also cannot allow them to do any work when they get out of prison.

And wonder why it is that they turn back to crime in order to make ends meet.

There is no interest in rehabilitation once inside because there is tons of money to be made off of return visitors...
 
Felons do pick up trash, cut grass, fix streets, maintain city lights, signs, clean municipal buildings, do KP in the Senior Nutrition Centers...

In most small towns down this way more guys wearing INMATE on their shirt do government work than free folk. It has been a blessing for cash strapped towns, and counties here though laid off guys might not think so.

Now I don't think most citizens would appreciate multiple murderers, child molesters, rapists, insane criminals mowing the grass outside the library or day care center, but plenty minor felons sure are. One day when I went to town all but one man digging up the street to repair a broken water line had INMATE on his back, to include the backhoe operator.


And they could do so much more! If they choose a life of crime the they choose a life of work. Nothing stops misbehavior better than manual labor. They could join construction crews and help carry heavy objects. They could work as cheap labor in factories to help bring industry back. I always say you can't compete with a nation that employs children for 50 cents an hour. Sure you can, employ prisoners for free! As for the repeat rapists, if a batch of them get public execution, it will stop for the most part.
 
The same people who would do heroin after it is legalized are those same people who would do heroin while it is criminalized.

Not if its not available.....If you would into a store and buy it you would have a hell of a lot more crazed people out there....
 
I know many right wing libertarians who want to legalize marijuana
Maybe you should venture out of your box....


Gonna have to expand on that point.

I doubt if with your attitude you know anyone from the right.
 
Not if its not available.....If you would into a store and buy it you would have a hell of a lot more crazed people out there....

Well, I can't go into a store now and buy it, but it's still available.

So that blows that argument of yours out of the water.
 
Well, I can't go into a store now and buy it, but it's still available.

So that blows that argument of yours out of the water.

Maybe you can do that but a lot of people can't and wouldn't have a clue where to get it.
 
I am 16 years old and I would never do heroin. Education is a big help. I know what heroin does to your body. It is disgusting. Would I do marijuana? It's possible.

You do know that grass eats brain cells right? Alot of people start out on grass and when they can no longer get doped out on it graduate to cocaine or heroin.........I hope you never do it....I have a grandson your age and he would never put poison in his body....None of my kids or grandchildren ever did drugs...we raised them right........
 
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You do know that grass eats brain cells right? Alot of people start out on grass and when they can no longer get doped out on it graduate to cocaine or heroin.........I hope you never do it....I have a grandson your age and he would never put poison in his body....None of my kids or grandchildren ever did drugs...we raised them right........

You should really end your posts with IMO because your opinions rarely match up to the facts...
 
I know many right wing libertarians who want to legalize marijuana
Maybe you should venture out of your box....


Gonna have to expand on that point.

People have fields of it for medicinal purposes..
 
Not if its not available.....If you would into a store and buy it you would have a hell of a lot more crazed people out there....

Speaking from experience,

In my small white suburban town of Moon twp (near Pittsburgh), it was easier for me, a junior in high school, to obtain heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and even crack than it was to obtain alcohol. This is because, as it was pushed into the black market, those who wanted to try it had only to enter the expansive black market to find access. In a legalized and regulated market, you would need the help of common, law-abiding adults to obtain your fix.
 
People have fields of it for medicinal purposes..

We have THC in pill form. "Legalizing" marijuana for medical use is absurd in my opinion.
 
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