Go smoke a bowl, op.

fucking burnout.

Because Democans and Republicrats

Because the feds get off hard fucking people's lives up with the drug war. And probably take a lot of those drugs home for personal use.

I had a thought the other day. Cigarettes are legal but marijuana isnt.

Say i invented a cigarette-like product right now. It may not necessarily be a tobacco product, it could be a sweet or a biscuit or whatever. It contains 2000 poisons. Its highly addictive. It causes mouth and lung cancer, heart disease and strokes. It is available for a few pounds/dollars for a 10-pack, and anyone over the age of 18 can buy them in any shop.

How the fuck would you even go about selling that product. You would be laughed out of the shop, and possibly arrested.

On the other hand, marijuana has been used as a cure for various ailments for thousands of years. It promotes sleep, calmness, creativity and well being. There are no side effects to marijuana (OH NOES if you take too much it is harmful - taking too much Pepsi is harmful too, ditto too much bread, too much celery, too much anything).

there is no reason why dope is illegal and cigarettes are legal other than conservatives. They say drugs are bad for our health, that they are looking out for our health - if they are looking out for our health then why the fuck are cigarettes sold freely over every shop counter.

>>449895
the only problem with that is tax and regulation. how does this make things better? legalizing drugs would provide lots of jobs and greater incomes but if you tax it and regulate it then you are going to hurt the economy.

any gains made from "tax and regulate" would definitely be offset by the economic losses.

but thats way preferable to the stupid system we got now

Becuse drugs means thugs

Because soccer moms and people who like Bill O'Reilly want to basically prevent minors from getting access to drugs, stop drug dealers and dealer violence, and don't want intoxicated people being a danger to the public. They also buy the fear campaigns and the fundie junk.

It's irrelevant that laws do nothing for the first and third, and that legalization solves the second. Holier-than-thou traditionalists are the worst.

i'm with you OP, i don't see any rational reason to keep drugs illegal

i mean fuck you americans are trusted with guns but not with a little pill that is extremely unlikely to mess you up

because old people and stupid people

>>450203
you got any stats on that

>>450128 the only problem with that is tax and regulation. how does this make things better? legalizing drugs would provide lots of jobs and greater incomes but if you tax it and regulate it then you are going to hurt the economy.

Gee, those dispensaries in California sure are suffering from such nonsense. *sarcasm*

>>450211

Who needs stats? Prisons are quickly becoming privatized institutions here in America. They have incentive to push victimless crimes on to the population.

>>450203
Gee i guess those correctional officers will have to take their IQs of 83 and find a new job.
True sob story.