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Re: Marijuna
You bemoaned locking drug dealers up and you gave as your alluded reason for so bemoaning that if a drug dealer is non-violent and a citizen then they should not be punished for dealing drugs.
I then pointed out that just because someone behaves non-violently and is a citizen does not mean their behavior isn't severely damaging and that when said severely damaging behavior is understandably illegal, the fact that they may have engaged in that behavior non-violently and as a citizen does in no way excuse them of their crime or the time they must serve.
But here you stray from defending your point, instead diverting to something else entirely.
I challenge you to defend your point to which I initially responded.
I also challenge you to read the OP of the link I previously referenced (Street Pot Is Irrefutably Deadly) and tell me what you think.
Your post here didn't at all speak to what I wrote.Yes. Non violent.
The vast majority of violence associated with drugs exists because drugs are illegal. It's supply and demand just like everything else. If the legal market cannot provide, then the black market steps in. This unregulated market controlled by gangs is the source of almost all drug related violence. Legalize it.
You bemoaned locking drug dealers up and you gave as your alluded reason for so bemoaning that if a drug dealer is non-violent and a citizen then they should not be punished for dealing drugs.
I then pointed out that just because someone behaves non-violently and is a citizen does not mean their behavior isn't severely damaging and that when said severely damaging behavior is understandably illegal, the fact that they may have engaged in that behavior non-violently and as a citizen does in no way excuse them of their crime or the time they must serve.
But here you stray from defending your point, instead diverting to something else entirely.
I challenge you to defend your point to which I initially responded.
I also challenge you to read the OP of the link I previously referenced (Street Pot Is Irrefutably Deadly) and tell me what you think.