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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: KLP who wrote (118140)6/4/2005 5:52:14 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) of 793738
 
And by pick up the tab for the 1 in 10 who uses, I also mean pick up the tab for all the robberies, rapes, and murders that some of these people commit because of their addiction. The general public has simply NO idea of how expensive these drugs are to society.


If marijuana were sold like tobacco, and since it's easy and cheap to grow it would cost less unless the government taxed the bejesus out of it, people wouldn't need to rob to afford it any more than you see tobaccoheads stealing to buy cigarettes.

And if there were an open market for marijuana as there is for tobacco, the gang murder problem would disappear as far as marijuana was concerned. It is because it is illegal that criminals get involved in distributing it. The corner grocery doesn't murder competitors who try to invade their turf to sell cigarettes, and they wouldn't murder competitors who tried to invade their turf to sell marijuana, either.

Much of the social cost of maarijuana comes not from the drug but from its illegality.
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