Quote:You say this now but what happens if your kids become wrapped up in that kind of world? You can bet your life you'd wish they wouldn't have had access to it then.


Now normally I'm not one for government intervention/regulation and I am completely in favor of legalizing marijuana (even though I don't smoke), but some things just make sense. Keeping things such as heroin, crack, meth, etc. off the streets is absolutely the right thing to do.


Obviously people still use it and there is crime as a result but I truly believe that this is the lesser of two evils.

 

You honestly believe that they don't have access now? You should get out more. The only thing(s) decriminalization would do is return freedom and autonomy to the citizens of this country, empty the prisons of non-violent perpetrators of victimless crime, slash the law enforcement budgets of every government agency in the USA, and increase the tax receipts of those same governments. No one is saying that a criminal who commits a crime shouldn't be incarcerated, but it's a moral offense to treat our citizens the way we do because they want to use drugs for fun.

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