wouldn’t some violent crimes still happen just for the hell of it? i mean, i’d beat the bejesus out of bin laden, and i wouldn’t need drugs to do so either
If marijuana growers gave as much money to political parties as Big Tobacco did, it would be legal in an instant.
Ok, here is the real stuff. These are transcipts of testimony before Congress by people who study this for a living. (Not that that makes them right on its own)…
http://www.ips-dc.org/downloads/addicted-testimony-socialimpact.PDF
This is from the Institute of Policy Studies.
Anyway, your experiment has been done already, the results are in. Please read all of this, it is very informative and FACTUAL…
If you don’t have time to read it all… jump down to this section, “SOCIAL IMPACT OF DRUGS & THE WAR ON DRUGS: Workable Alternatives Testimony of Mike Gray”. This covers exactly your proposition to the tee.
Sorry, I had to comment on this little bit of rather skewed opinion.
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May that not be reasonbly explained by the sheer number of alcohol users and abusers as compared to those involving other drugs?
Also:
ElwoodCuse has this gem:
Ya think? I don’t. Though I’d bet that if big tobacco didn’t spend as much money on political parties it would quicly become illegal.
Sentiment over the last few decades isn’t running toward a more open society. Rather it is tending toward a more closed and protected society.
What Bush will do to end the Drug War is to declare illegal drug dealers terrorists. Thus the War on Terror will expand.