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Originally Posted by AndyMarquisLIVE  ... what harm is someone causing to society by smoking pot in their own homes?
The drug isn't the problem, the laws are. If the chit wasn't illegal to start with, then there'd be no gang wars over weed, no illegal drug dealers, and then our prisons would be able to hold sex predators.
Instead, we make it illegal and hold people in prison for years for smoking a relatively harmless substance and then  about the prisons are overcrowded so we have to let sexual predators walk the streets. |
Honestly, it's only slightly more harmful than alcohol. Like other drugs, pot is a controlled substance. Your thought process could go to heroin, codeine (sp?), etc., etc. The question is where to draw the line. We've drawn it.
Like I said before, I wouldn't imprison the users, for the reasons you state above. I'd fine 'em. And, make the fine be tied to their net worth so that it's the same fine for Lindsey and Brittany as it would be for you and I - the same pain, that is. Basically, tax it out of existence, like people are trying to do with alcohol and cigarettes.