Subject: | Re: Why Pot? Why Not?
| Date: | Thu, 08 Jan 2004 18:54:19 -0700
| From: | Mike Helm <mhelm@not.known>
| Newsgroups: | alt.politics.marijuana,talk.politics.drugs,alt.philosophy
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:59:42 -0500, "Miller"
<chumley702NOSSSSPAM@chartermi.net>
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>The main problem with legalizing pot, or any other recreational illegal drug
>is: that once its legalized, if it does turn out to be a mistake, society
>will have a hell of a time making it illegal again. (Look at how badly
>prohibition worked).
Look how badly it's "working" right now.
>So if you want to make pot legal, you better be pretty
>damn sure it is not going to have a lot of social and health costs
>associated with it.
Could those costs possibly be higher than the current societal and
health costs of prohibition?
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>Also, the fact that alcohol is readily available does, I think, have
>something to do with it being the most dangerous abused drug in the world.
I'm sure it has something to do with it, but I believe there are other
factors one of which is that it is a very abusable, addictive and
dangerous drug to begin with.
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>Besides, making pot legal would take all of the fun out of smoking it on the
>sly.
Perhaps that would lead to a reduction in use, at least among some
people.
>
>Scott
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