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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (773900)3/9/2014 1:16:33 PM
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>> I think its not good for most people to use and downright harmful for a minority of users.

That's surely true.

But the question is whether it should be a criminal act to possess and use it and whether the interests of the nation are furthered by its illegal status.

I make a deal of this because it is not the minimal problem so many think it is. The illegality of marijuana kills hundreds of people annually, mostly teens and young adults. It jails many others, and the criminalization guarantees those kids a lifetime of unemployment and stymied success.

While we spend billions on chasing marijuana smokers, we also jam up our court systems, create an intense level of corruption among law enforcement, including the creation of unaccountable slush funds, water down constitutional protections, and sometimes cause our cops to shoot innocent persons to death. All in the name of chasing illegal marijuana. Persons convicted of marijuana possession may be forced into a life of crime because they become permanently unemployment because of marijuana possession in their history -- particularly if the quantity put them over some arbitrary legal limit.

It is wrong and it should be stopped. And it should be far higher on the list of conservatives who conveniently ignore the problem.
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