Why Not Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol?
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Marijuana is far safer than alcohol because it does not stimulate
aggressiveness and is not nearly as addictive.
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To save $7.7 billion in enforcement costs.
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To produce $6.2 billion in tax revenue (which could be used to pay
for education, treatment and prevention for all drugs.)
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To deprive cartels and gangs of a major source of revenue.
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To significantly enhance the effectiveness of our police and courts.
(Current annual marijuana arrests exceed 700,000 per year.)
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To separate marijuana from far more dangerous illegal drugs, ending
the "gateway" to drug dealers we now have.
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To reduce hypocrisy and make drug education more credible and effective.
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To end prisons doing far more damage to users than the drug itself.
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To end the breaking of the law by otherwise law abiding citizens,
especially the more than 900,000 children under 18 years old who
buy and resell marijuana.
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To remove major barriers to research for medical use.
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To reduce violence in general and safeguard law enforcers.
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And because it would not
have been banned at all but for
a political scoundrel!
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("... Anslinger's campaign may have been just a tool in the beginning, but fueled
with this kind of racial tinder, it quickly got out of hand. The Treasury Department
was barraged with cries for help from civic leaders: 'I wish I could show you what
a small marijuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking
residents ...'") (To be continued next month)
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