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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (782436)4/28/2014 4:51:59 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 1577406
 
Most of them I know also didn't spent much time in jail. But some DO get life terms. Some DO get extended sentences.

Maybe there were some special circumstances in those instances that make them different than the normal experience we've both seen.

We have MORE drug addiction today because marijuana is illegal. We have MORE kids using marijuana. We have MORE kids getting seriously drug addicted. We have MORE adults who experience life long addictions. Because marijuana is illegal.

I just don't believe it. And I think we'll have even more marijuana use. I think we should use CO and WA as real life opportunities to study what happens.

We spend 10s of billions, if not 100s of billions, on these arcane drug laws every year. Wasted, money that SHOULD be spent on treating addiction. Instead, we THEN lock up drug addicts so they can never, so long as they live, hold meaningful employment. It is beyond stupid.

Why should we spend money on treating addictions? Just let them be addicted. Legalize it and the bad stuff associated with its use will just go away. I'm kidding, of course. Seriously, I think if you make drugs legal, the drug treatment industry will go way down. Most people only go to drug treatment because they have to.
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