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To: KLP who wrote (118140)	6/4/2005 4:10:37 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793729

<<and uses marijuana for a "gateway" drug to other much more serious drugs, like cocaine/crack, heroin, and homemade horrors like meth.>> I'd bet most who get on crack and meth would anyway if they never touched weed.

To: KLP who wrote (118140)	6/4/2005 4:16:20 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793729

Well you hit all the points the DEA puts out against the use of Pot. Just remember, all the points put out against the use of Pot by the Government are coming from people who make their living off the drug. They would be out of work if it was legalized. As I said, not a chance of it getting legalized in the near future.

To: KLP who wrote (118140)	6/4/2005 5:52:14 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793729

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.

To: KLP who wrote (118140)	6/5/2005 6:37:52 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793729

If the Government legalizes marijuana, then the Government should also pick up the tab for the 1 in 10 that becomes addicted to it Then the Government should also take care of alcoholics, no? Alcohol is legal and some people become addicted to it.