Why are people against legalizing marijuana?

[dblack]

Sugar has detrimental effects on the body. Why not outlaw that too?

Liberals are working on that. We're so lucky that both parties are eager to tell us how to live!

 

[Blues Man]

The problem is, this could lead to people wanting to legalize other drugs based on the same argument. While a lot of leftists think this sounds great, they fail to look at the unintended consequences, as usual.

Decriminalizing marijuana is not that big of a deal. It still should not be celebrated as a good life choice though. It is not a good life choice though for most people.

Just tune in to some police reality shows and see for yourself the "drug culture" and the problems they cause in society.

Decriminalizing all drugs frees up the courts, frees up the cops and frees up more than enough money to offer rehab to addicts.

Portugal did it and in less than 10 years saw a decrease in drug addiction and the crime that comes along with it

Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

The truth of what they did-
Daphne Bramham: Decriminalization is no silver bullet, says Portugal's drug czar
The only thing that most outsiders know about Portugal’s laws is that all drugs for personal use are decriminalized. But what most fail to understand is that all drugs, other than alcohol and tobacco, remain illegal.

If police find you with illicit drugs, you’ll be arrested and taken to a police station where the drugs will be weighed. If the amount is above the strictly enforced threshold limits — designed to be a 10-day supply for personal use, or 25 grams of cannabis, five grams of cannabis resin, two grams of cocaine, or one gram each of ecstasy or heroin — you can be charged as a trafficker. If convicted, jail terms range from one year to 14 years.


If the amount is below the limit, you’ll be sent the following day to the Commission for the Dissuasion of Drug Addiction — even if you’re a tourist. There, you will be interviewed by a psychologist or social worker before appearing before a three-person panel that will offer suggestions aimed at stopping your drug use.

From there, you’re fast-tracked to whatever services you’re willing to accept. If you refuse help, you can be asked to do community service or even, eventually, facing a fine, perhaps even having possessions confiscated and sold to pay the fine.

It’s why Goulão is so quick to point out that Portugal’s success isn’t because of decriminalization. It’s because, in 2001, his country made a commitment to providing whatever its citizens need to be as healthy and as fully engaged in society as possible.

And freeing up the money wasted on the minor drug offenses that are the most common there was ample money to offer those health services to addicts

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[Blues Man]

Most people are too stupid as it is. We used to have a saying about alcohol, "instant asshole, just add alcohol." Same goes with weed or any other drugs.

A good question to ask a person is, would you want your child smoking it and why not?

What another adult does in his own private life is none of your business

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[ABikerSailor]

You know, marijuana isn't physically addictive in any way shape or form. And, it's not a chemically made thing, it's a plant.

As far as ChrisL saying that it messes with brain development? Yep, if it is used prior to age 21, but the same can be said of alcohol or any other mind altering substance. The brain is still growing and forming itself until around 20 or 21 years of age. If a person wants to smoke and they are over 21, let them do as they will.

And, marijuana has shown very positive results when it comes to treating opioid and heroin addiction. Addicts who are coming down off of heroin and opiates experience joint and muscle pain, are extremely jumpy, and are unable to eat. What happens when a person smokes an Indica strain? Pain in the muscles and joints is relieved, they calm down, and it also stimulates appetite. And, because it is non addictive, when a person is far enough away from heroin, if they choose to, they can simply stop using marijuana. VICE channel did a story about it on their show Weedequette, and they have around a 60 percent recovery rate.

Matter of fact, because it's shown promise in treating opiate and heroin addiction, New Mexico is now saying addiction can be one of the reasons for getting medical marijuana.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st.../new-mexico-expands-medical-marijuana-program

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A state at the forefront of the U.S. opioid and drug overdose epidemic is turning to its medical marijuana program to reduce suffering from drug use and addiction.

New Mexico health officials on Thursday expanded the list of qualifying conditions for the state's medical cannabis program to include opioid use disorder, joining several other states. Other qualifying conditions that were added include Alzheimer's disease, autism spectrum disorder and three degenerative neurological disorders.



And, if ChrisL's claim that marijuana is bad for your brain, then why is it used to treat autism and Alzheimer's? If it was bad for your brain, it wouldn't be used for those conditions.

 

[Blues Man]

You know, marijuana isn't physically addictive in any way shape or form. And, it's not a chemically made thing, it's a plant.

As far as ChrisL saying that it messes with brain development? Yep, if it is used prior to age 21, but the same can be said of alcohol or any other mind altering substance. The brain is still growing and forming itself until around 20 or 21 years of age. If a person wants to smoke and they are over 21, let them do as they will.

And, marijuana has shown very positive results when it comes to treating opioid and heroin addiction. Addicts who are coming down off of heroin and opiates experience joint and muscle pain, are extremely jumpy, and are unable to eat. What happens when a person smokes an Indica strain? Pain in the muscles and joints is relieved, they calm down, and it also stimulates appetite. And, because it is non addictive, when a person is far enough away from heroin, if they choose to, they can simply stop using marijuana. VICE channel did a story about it on their show Weedequette, and they have around a 60 percent recovery rate.

Matter of fact, because it's shown promise in treating opiate and heroin addiction, New Mexico is now saying addiction can be one of the reasons for getting medical marijuana.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st.../new-mexico-expands-medical-marijuana-program

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A state at the forefront of the U.S. opioid and drug overdose epidemic is turning to its medical marijuana program to reduce suffering from drug use and addiction.

New Mexico health officials on Thursday expanded the list of qualifying conditions for the state's medical cannabis program to include opioid use disorder, joining several other states. Other qualifying conditions that were added include Alzheimer's disease, autism spectrum disorder and three degenerative neurological disorders.



And, if ChrisL's claim that marijuana is bad for your brain, then why is it used to treat autism and Alzheimer's? If it was bad for your brain, it wouldn't be used for those conditions.

All the hoopla about teens and pot is ridiculous especially since teenagers have been drinking and smoking pot since way before I was a teenager

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[ChrisL]

You know, marijuana isn't physically addictive in any way shape or form. And, it's not a chemically made thing, it's a plant.

As far as ChrisL saying that it messes with brain development? Yep, if it is used prior to age 21, but the same can be said of alcohol or any other mind altering substance. The brain is still growing and forming itself until around 20 or 21 years of age. If a person wants to smoke and they are over 21, let them do as they will.

And, marijuana has shown very positive results when it comes to treating opioid and heroin addiction. Addicts who are coming down off of heroin and opiates experience joint and muscle pain, are extremely jumpy, and are unable to eat. What happens when a person smokes an Indica strain? Pain in the muscles and joints is relieved, they calm down, and it also stimulates appetite. And, because it is non addictive, when a person is far enough away from heroin, if they choose to, they can simply stop using marijuana. VICE channel did a story about it on their show Weedequette, and they have around a 60 percent recovery rate.

Matter of fact, because it's shown promise in treating opiate and heroin addiction, New Mexico is now saying addiction can be one of the reasons for getting medical marijuana.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st.../new-mexico-expands-medical-marijuana-program

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A state at the forefront of the U.S. opioid and drug overdose epidemic is turning to its medical marijuana program to reduce suffering from drug use and addiction.

New Mexico health officials on Thursday expanded the list of qualifying conditions for the state's medical cannabis program to include opioid use disorder, joining several other states. Other qualifying conditions that were added include Alzheimer's disease, autism spectrum disorder and three degenerative neurological disorders.



And, if ChrisL's claim that marijuana is bad for your brain, then why is it used to treat autism and Alzheimer's? If it was bad for your brain, it wouldn't be used for those conditions.

All the hoopla about teens and pot is ridiculous especially since teenagers have been drinking and smoking pot since way before I was a teenager

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And look around!

 

[Flopper]

What is their rationale? We have alcohol and nobody believes that should be illegal. If one is for freedom and liberty one is supportive of legalization.

I live in a state where marijuana is legal. I don't see any problem with adult use. My problem is with the use by children. It is illegal to sell to children but that does stop kids from getting it. Use by 12 and 13 year olds is common in most Middle Schools. It is often mixed with tobacco and vaping products. It was a problem before legalization and now it is a bigger problem due to the fact that it is so readily available to kids. They get from parents, neighbors, older siblings, and other kids that are dealing.

Just like alcohol it has never stopped kids from getting it.

True, but you don't have to make easy for them.

 

[Flopper]

You know, marijuana isn't physically addictive in any way shape or form. And, it's not a chemically made thing, it's a plant.

As far as ChrisL saying that it messes with brain development? Yep, if it is used prior to age 21, but the same can be said of alcohol or any other mind altering substance. The brain is still growing and forming itself until around 20 or 21 years of age. If a person wants to smoke and they are over 21, let them do as they will.

And, marijuana has shown very positive results when it comes to treating opioid and heroin addiction. Addicts who are coming down off of heroin and opiates experience joint and muscle pain, are extremely jumpy, and are unable to eat. What happens when a person smokes an Indica strain? Pain in the muscles and joints is relieved, they calm down, and it also stimulates appetite. And, because it is non addictive, when a person is far enough away from heroin, if they choose to, they can simply stop using marijuana. VICE channel did a story about it on their show Weedequette, and they have around a 60 percent recovery rate.

Matter of fact, because it's shown promise in treating opiate and heroin addiction, New Mexico is now saying addiction can be one of the reasons for getting medical marijuana.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st.../new-mexico-expands-medical-marijuana-program

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A state at the forefront of the U.S. opioid and drug overdose epidemic is turning to its medical marijuana program to reduce suffering from drug use and addiction.

New Mexico health officials on Thursday expanded the list of qualifying conditions for the state's medical cannabis program to include opioid use disorder, joining several other states. Other qualifying conditions that were added include Alzheimer's disease, autism spectrum disorder and three degenerative neurological disorders.



And, if ChrisL's claim that marijuana is bad for your brain, then why is it used to treat autism and Alzheimer's? If it was bad for your brain, it wouldn't be used for those conditions.

All the hoopla about teens and pot is ridiculous especially since teenagers have been drinking and smoking pot since way before I was a teenager

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It's not the fact that some kids drink alcohol and smoke pot, it's how much and how many. I have a friend who's an assistance principal at a local high school. He says everyday kids are sitting in his office so stoned they don't know where they are. That did not happen before pot was legalized.

You can have legalized pot without creating an epidemic of pot use in schools if you do it right. First, you don't allow pot shops anywhere close to schools. Second, you tax pot to make it too expensive for high schools. We found that raising the price of cigarettes reduces teen smoking. Teens are very sensitive to price. You do not allow the sale of marijuana products that are very attractive to kids such cookies, suckers and candy. Lastly decriminalizing and legalizing marijuana should not mean you de-emphasizes enforcement of sale to minors. In most places where it is legalized, the police back off all together in enforcing marijuana laws against sale to minors. That needs to change.

 

[depotoo]

The problem is, this could lead to people wanting to legalize other drugs based on the same argument. While a lot of leftists think this sounds great, they fail to look at the unintended consequences, as usual.

Decriminalizing marijuana is not that big of a deal. It still should not be celebrated as a good life choice though. It is not a good life choice though for most people.

Just tune in to some police reality shows and see for yourself the "drug culture" and the problems they cause in society.

Decriminalizing all drugs frees up the courts, frees up the cops and frees up more than enough money to offer rehab to addicts.

Portugal did it and in less than 10 years saw a decrease in drug addiction and the crime that comes along with it

Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

The truth of what they did-
Daphne Bramham: Decriminalization is no silver bullet, says Portugal's drug czar
The only thing that most outsiders know about Portugal’s laws is that all drugs for personal use are decriminalized. But what most fail to understand is that all drugs, other than alcohol and tobacco, remain illegal.

If police find you with illicit drugs, you’ll be arrested and taken to a police station where the drugs will be weighed. If the amount is above the strictly enforced threshold limits — designed to be a 10-day supply for personal use, or 25 grams of cannabis, five grams of cannabis resin, two grams of cocaine, or one gram each of ecstasy or heroin — you can be charged as a trafficker. If convicted, jail terms range from one year to 14 years.


If the amount is below the limit, you’ll be sent the following day to the Commission for the Dissuasion of Drug Addiction — even if you’re a tourist. There, you will be interviewed by a psychologist or social worker before appearing before a three-person panel that will offer suggestions aimed at stopping your drug use.

From there, you’re fast-tracked to whatever services you’re willing to accept. If you refuse help, you can be asked to do community service or even, eventually, facing a fine, perhaps even having possessions confiscated and sold to pay the fine.

It’s why Goulão is so quick to point out that Portugal’s success isn’t because of decriminalization. It’s because, in 2001, his country made a commitment to providing whatever its citizens need to be as healthy and as fully engaged in society as possible.

And freeing up the money wasted on the minor drug offenses that are the most common there was ample money to offer those health services to addicts

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So you are for forcing people in to treatment, then, and confiscating their goods, if they won’t.
And it is still illegal to sell drugs.

 

[ChrisL]

I really feel like drugs are a scourge on society. Maybe not weed, but the harder drugs. It is just terrible what they do to people. Drugs kill way more people than guns, yet leftists would like nothing more than to make drugs legal and ban guns, which you will probably need if hard drugs were ever legalized. Drug addicts will do ANYTHING to get their drugs, including robbing and killing their own family members.

Weed may not be a "gateway" drug for some people, but it is for others.

 

[ChrisL]

In 2017, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses, making it a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States. Sixty-eight percent of those deaths involved a prescription or illicit opioid. On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.

America's Drug Overdose Epidemic: Data to Action

 

[EvilCat Breath]

You know, marijuana isn't physically addictive in any way shape or form. And, it's not a chemically made thing, it's a plant.

As far as ChrisL saying that it messes with brain development? Yep, if it is used prior to age 21, but the same can be said of alcohol or any other mind altering substance. The brain is still growing and forming itself until around 20 or 21 years of age. If a person wants to smoke and they are over 21, let them do as they will.

And, marijuana has shown very positive results when it comes to treating opioid and heroin addiction. Addicts who are coming down off of heroin and opiates experience joint and muscle pain, are extremely jumpy, and are unable to eat. What happens when a person smokes an Indica strain? Pain in the muscles and joints is relieved, they calm down, and it also stimulates appetite. And, because it is non addictive, when a person is far enough away from heroin, if they choose to, they can simply stop using marijuana. VICE channel did a story about it on their show Weedequette, and they have around a 60 percent recovery rate.

Matter of fact, because it's shown promise in treating opiate and heroin addiction, New Mexico is now saying addiction can be one of the reasons for getting medical marijuana.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st.../new-mexico-expands-medical-marijuana-program

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A state at the forefront of the U.S. opioid and drug overdose epidemic is turning to its medical marijuana program to reduce suffering from drug use and addiction.

New Mexico health officials on Thursday expanded the list of qualifying conditions for the state's medical cannabis program to include opioid use disorder, joining several other states. Other qualifying conditions that were added include Alzheimer's disease, autism spectrum disorder and three degenerative neurological disorders.



And, if ChrisL's claim that marijuana is bad for your brain, then why is it used to treat autism and Alzheimer's? If it was bad for your brain, it wouldn't be used for those conditions.

All the hoopla about teens and pot is ridiculous especially since teenagers have been drinking and smoking pot since way before I was a teenager

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It's not the fact that some kids drink alcohol and smoke pot, it's how much and how many. I have a friend who's an assistance principal at a local high school. He says everyday kids are sitting in his office so stoned they don't know where they are. That did not happen before pot was legalized.

You can have legalized pot without creating an epidemic of pot use in schools if you do it right. First, you don't allow pot shops anywhere close to schools. Second, you tax pot to make it too expensive for high schools. We found that raising the price of cigarettes reduces teen smoking. Teens are very sensitive to price. You do not allow the sale of marijuana products that are very attractive to kids such cookies, suckers and candy. Lastly decriminalizing and legalizing marijuana should not mean you de-emphasizes enforcement of sale to minors. In most places where it is legalized, the police back off all together in enforcing marijuana laws against sale to minors. That needs to change.

Jose the reliable supplier is still selling and undercutting the legal shops.

 

[Flopper]

You know, marijuana isn't physically addictive in any way shape or form. And, it's not a chemically made thing, it's a plant.

As far as ChrisL saying that it messes with brain development? Yep, if it is used prior to age 21, but the same can be said of alcohol or any other mind altering substance. The brain is still growing and forming itself until around 20 or 21 years of age. If a person wants to smoke and they are over 21, let them do as they will.

And, marijuana has shown very positive results when it comes to treating opioid and heroin addiction. Addicts who are coming down off of heroin and opiates experience joint and muscle pain, are extremely jumpy, and are unable to eat. What happens when a person smokes an Indica strain? Pain in the muscles and joints is relieved, they calm down, and it also stimulates appetite. And, because it is non addictive, when a person is far enough away from heroin, if they choose to, they can simply stop using marijuana. VICE channel did a story about it on their show Weedequette, and they have around a 60 percent recovery rate.

Matter of fact, because it's shown promise in treating opiate and heroin addiction, New Mexico is now saying addiction can be one of the reasons for getting medical marijuana.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st.../new-mexico-expands-medical-marijuana-program

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A state at the forefront of the U.S. opioid and drug overdose epidemic is turning to its medical marijuana program to reduce suffering from drug use and addiction.

New Mexico health officials on Thursday expanded the list of qualifying conditions for the state's medical cannabis program to include opioid use disorder, joining several other states. Other qualifying conditions that were added include Alzheimer's disease, autism spectrum disorder and three degenerative neurological disorders.



And, if ChrisL's claim that marijuana is bad for your brain, then why is it used to treat autism and Alzheimer's? If it was bad for your brain, it wouldn't be used for those conditions.

All the hoopla about teens and pot is ridiculous especially since teenagers have been drinking and smoking pot since way before I was a teenager

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It's not the fact that some kids drink alcohol and smoke pot, it's how much and how many. I have a friend who's an assistance principal at a local high school. He says everyday kids are sitting in his office so stoned they don't know where they are. That did not happen before pot was legalized.

You can have legalized pot without creating an epidemic of pot use in schools if you do it right. First, you don't allow pot shops anywhere close to schools. Second, you tax pot to make it too expensive for high schools. We found that raising the price of cigarettes reduces teen smoking. Teens are very sensitive to price. You do not allow the sale of marijuana products that are very attractive to kids such cookies, suckers and candy. Lastly decriminalizing and legalizing marijuana should not mean you de-emphasizes enforcement of sale to minors. In most places where it is legalized, the police back off all together in enforcing marijuana laws against sale to minors. That needs to change.

Jose the reliable supplier is still selling and undercutting the legal shops.

I suspect that problem is transitional. Most people today that buy pot are accustomed to buying from illegal drug dealers. However, as more shops open and it become legal in more states, buying from legal outlets will become easier and more desirable. The acceptance of credit cards has been a problem but that problem will go away with time. Also most shops today are very small. It's only a question of time before larger shops buy out smaller ones and economics of scale set in lowering overhead and cost.

 

[dblack]

In 2017, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses, making it a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States. Sixty-eight percent of those deaths involved a prescription or illicit opioid. On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.

America's Drug Overdose Epidemic: Data to Action

Let's get right at the heart of the problem then: make it illegal to die from an opioid overdose.

 

[ChrisL]

In 2017, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses, making it a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States. Sixty-eight percent of those deaths involved a prescription or illicit opioid. On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.

America's Drug Overdose Epidemic: Data to Action

Let's get right at the heart of the problem then: make it illegal to die from an opioid overdose.

Acceptance of drug use as "normal" and "mainstream" is the underlying problem here.

 

[ChrisL]

You should be ashamed that you use drugs. That is not and should not be anything to be proud of.

 

[Terence Millar]

People will still be growing their own, so forget the tax angle.

 

[Blues Man]

You know, marijuana isn't physically addictive in any way shape or form. And, it's not a chemically made thing, it's a plant.

As far as ChrisL saying that it messes with brain development? Yep, if it is used prior to age 21, but the same can be said of alcohol or any other mind altering substance. The brain is still growing and forming itself until around 20 or 21 years of age. If a person wants to smoke and they are over 21, let them do as they will.

And, marijuana has shown very positive results when it comes to treating opioid and heroin addiction. Addicts who are coming down off of heroin and opiates experience joint and muscle pain, are extremely jumpy, and are unable to eat. What happens when a person smokes an Indica strain? Pain in the muscles and joints is relieved, they calm down, and it also stimulates appetite. And, because it is non addictive, when a person is far enough away from heroin, if they choose to, they can simply stop using marijuana. VICE channel did a story about it on their show Weedequette, and they have around a 60 percent recovery rate.

Matter of fact, because it's shown promise in treating opiate and heroin addiction, New Mexico is now saying addiction can be one of the reasons for getting medical marijuana.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st.../new-mexico-expands-medical-marijuana-program

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A state at the forefront of the U.S. opioid and drug overdose epidemic is turning to its medical marijuana program to reduce suffering from drug use and addiction.

New Mexico health officials on Thursday expanded the list of qualifying conditions for the state's medical cannabis program to include opioid use disorder, joining several other states. Other qualifying conditions that were added include Alzheimer's disease, autism spectrum disorder and three degenerative neurological disorders.



And, if ChrisL's claim that marijuana is bad for your brain, then why is it used to treat autism and Alzheimer's? If it was bad for your brain, it wouldn't be used for those conditions.

All the hoopla about teens and pot is ridiculous especially since teenagers have been drinking and smoking pot since way before I was a teenager

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And look around!

I do
Do you?



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[Blues Man]

You know, marijuana isn't physically addictive in any way shape or form. And, it's not a chemically made thing, it's a plant.

As far as ChrisL saying that it messes with brain development? Yep, if it is used prior to age 21, but the same can be said of alcohol or any other mind altering substance. The brain is still growing and forming itself until around 20 or 21 years of age. If a person wants to smoke and they are over 21, let them do as they will.

And, marijuana has shown very positive results when it comes to treating opioid and heroin addiction. Addicts who are coming down off of heroin and opiates experience joint and muscle pain, are extremely jumpy, and are unable to eat. What happens when a person smokes an Indica strain? Pain in the muscles and joints is relieved, they calm down, and it also stimulates appetite. And, because it is non addictive, when a person is far enough away from heroin, if they choose to, they can simply stop using marijuana. VICE channel did a story about it on their show Weedequette, and they have around a 60 percent recovery rate.

Matter of fact, because it's shown promise in treating opiate and heroin addiction, New Mexico is now saying addiction can be one of the reasons for getting medical marijuana.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st.../new-mexico-expands-medical-marijuana-program

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A state at the forefront of the U.S. opioid and drug overdose epidemic is turning to its medical marijuana program to reduce suffering from drug use and addiction.

New Mexico health officials on Thursday expanded the list of qualifying conditions for the state's medical cannabis program to include opioid use disorder, joining several other states. Other qualifying conditions that were added include Alzheimer's disease, autism spectrum disorder and three degenerative neurological disorders.



And, if ChrisL's claim that marijuana is bad for your brain, then why is it used to treat autism and Alzheimer's? If it was bad for your brain, it wouldn't be used for those conditions.

All the hoopla about teens and pot is ridiculous especially since teenagers have been drinking and smoking pot since way before I was a teenager

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It's not the fact that some kids drink alcohol and smoke pot, it's how much and how many. I have a friend who's an assistance principal at a local high school. He says everyday kids are sitting in his office so stoned they don't know where they are. That did not happen before pot was legalized.

You can have legalized pot without creating an epidemic of pot use in schools if you do it right. First, you don't allow pot shops anywhere close to schools. Second, you tax pot to make it too expensive for high schools. We found that raising the price of cigarettes reduces teen smoking. Teens are very sensitive to price. You do not allow the sale of marijuana products that are very attractive to kids such cookies, suckers and candy. Lastly decriminalizing and legalizing marijuana should not mean you de-emphasizes enforcement of sale to minors. In most places where it is legalized, the police back off all together in enforcing marijuana laws against sale to minors. That needs to change.

Anecdotal

When I was in high school I knew kids who would get stoned every morning before school

Funny how when people reach a certain age they forget that they were teenagers

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[Blues Man]

The problem is, this could lead to people wanting to legalize other drugs based on the same argument. While a lot of leftists think this sounds great, they fail to look at the unintended consequences, as usual.

Decriminalizing marijuana is not that big of a deal. It still should not be celebrated as a good life choice though. It is not a good life choice though for most people.

Just tune in to some police reality shows and see for yourself the "drug culture" and the problems they cause in society.

Decriminalizing all drugs frees up the courts, frees up the cops and frees up more than enough money to offer rehab to addicts.

Portugal did it and in less than 10 years saw a decrease in drug addiction and the crime that comes along with it

Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

The truth of what they did-
Daphne Bramham: Decriminalization is no silver bullet, says Portugal's drug czar
The only thing that most outsiders know about Portugal’s laws is that all drugs for personal use are decriminalized. But what most fail to understand is that all drugs, other than alcohol and tobacco, remain illegal.

If police find you with illicit drugs, you’ll be arrested and taken to a police station where the drugs will be weighed. If the amount is above the strictly enforced threshold limits — designed to be a 10-day supply for personal use, or 25 grams of cannabis, five grams of cannabis resin, two grams of cocaine, or one gram each of ecstasy or heroin — you can be charged as a trafficker. If convicted, jail terms range from one year to 14 years.


If the amount is below the limit, you’ll be sent the following day to the Commission for the Dissuasion of Drug Addiction — even if you’re a tourist. There, you will be interviewed by a psychologist or social worker before appearing before a three-person panel that will offer suggestions aimed at stopping your drug use.

From there, you’re fast-tracked to whatever services you’re willing to accept. If you refuse help, you can be asked to do community service or even, eventually, facing a fine, perhaps even having possessions confiscated and sold to pay the fine.

It’s why Goulão is so quick to point out that Portugal’s success isn’t because of decriminalization. It’s because, in 2001, his country made a commitment to providing whatever its citizens need to be as healthy and as fully engaged in society as possible.

And freeing up the money wasted on the minor drug offenses that are the most common there was ample money to offer those health services to addicts

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So you are for forcing people in to treatment, then, and confiscating their goods, if they won’t.
And it is still illegal to sell drugs.

When does the word offer imply using force?

I never advocate for forcing people to do anything

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