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The recreational use of marijuana has been glamorized over the years by such on-screen duos as Cheech & Chong and Harold & Kumar, but is the drug everything that Hollywood makes it out to be? Then again, are we being hypocritical by allowing alcohol consumption but not cannabis usage? With passionate believers on both sides of the argument, it will be interesting to see what happens when the smoke clears.
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It’s the Economy, Stupid!
Oh, but there's more.
Sounds like we're spending a LOT of money policing weed. We're also spending a lot of money policing cocaine and ecstacy. Should we stop that too?
- MrZ750 September 2, 2008 6:21PM
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Not the issue
Cocaine, ecstacy, meph, heroin, etc aren't the issue here. There's politcal interest groups who do want to completely halt the war on drugs and legalize everything, but there is a large community that just wants the war on drugs to exclude pot, with the argument that it is miscatagorized as a schedule I substance, and less a danger than existing, legal rec drugs like alchohol and tobacco. Hard drugs like cocaine are widely agreed upon as destructive, whereas MJ is widely disagreed upon. The vast majority of those who do not want MJ legal tend to be conservatives, and the further "right" you go, the stronger the opposition.
- Asemili
September 3, 2008 3:00PM
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Okay, missed point here
Would you allow the government to spend billions of dollars policing the use of, let's say....jelly donuts? No, of course not. Why? It would be pointless right? Well, that's about how "addictive" and "dangerous" pot is, about as much as a jelly donut.
Your hard-earned tax dollars at work, all because of a very powerful, very effective anti- marijuana campaign that started back in the 30's.
- Samantha
December 3, 2009 10:40AM
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