Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.
By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.
The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.
The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.
If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.
Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.
We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.
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