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Originally Posted by Doors
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Weed eventually leads you down the road to future problems. Mostly other scumbag that introduce you to harder drugs. Either way this country doesn't need another substance legalized.
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Most people who argue for legalization (it's more accurate to say "de-criminalization," since the actual political act would remove federal law against weed and let the states regulate it as they see fit) aren't saying these things aren't partially true - but rehabilitation for people who use weed is better handled outside the prison system, especially when so few weed smokers are really violent offenders before incarceration. The cost of having federal agencies and states being forced to police weed (i.e. states having to fight the feds to get it legalized and having the feds trying to overrule their legalization of it, although this is less true under the Obama admin) is greater than the cost of just letting people smoke it if they want to and letting states/charitable organizations and localities deal with rehab, etc...
Drug wars don't work unless the Drug is particularly virulent or destructive, i.e. Heroine, cocaine, etc - and even then it's questionable.
Banning weed is really no different than alcohol prohibition (except worse) - and no one can describe that experience in other terms than an abject failure and a waste of resources.