The U.S. took a big hop to the left in Tuesday’s elections.
Voters in three states—Maine, Maryland and Washington—approved same-sex marriage, joining the lot that already includes Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. Meanwhile, though it remains illegal in Minnesota, voters there rejected a constitutional amendment to ban it.
Washington and Colorado threw another left-leaning punch by being the first two states to legalize small amounts of marijuana for recreational use for those 21 and older. It is unclear how these measures will be handled at the federal level, where it remains illegal.
President Obama, who grabbed a sweeping Electoral College victory Tuesday to push him into a second term, has already come out in support of gay marriage. "I've always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally," he said earlier this year.
In his 2004 U.S. senate race, he called the war on drugs "an utter failure, and I think that we need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws, but I’m not somebody who believes in legalization of marijuana."
But since taking over as president, there have been crackdowns on medical marijuana, especially in California.
"I can't nullify congressional law," Obama told Rolling Stone this year. "I can't ask the Justice Department to say, 'Ignore completely a federal law that's on the books.'
"What I can say is, 'Use your prosecutorial discretion and properly prioritize your resources to go after things that are really doing folks damage.' As a consequence, there haven't been prosecutions of users of marijuana for medical purposes."
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On the law side, it is a waste of government resource to patrol, takes valuable tax dollars to manage since it has proven to be unmanageable, and legalizing it would eliminate a huge portion of crime in society. People have been making untaxed dollars off of it for decades.. To the person that said legalize prostitution I somewhat agree, in the sense regulation would safeguard health and safety but morally I would be somewhat against - but if you left it up to the states to manage thats a little different, because tourist revenue could help some states :)
Personally, no, I don't believe it's a gateway drug to harder substances. I think the very fact that it's illegal makes exposure to other harmful drugs more likely. When are people more likely to see hard drugs? When people involved in the criminal drug trade are selling them pot.
No. Are soft drinks a just a gateway drink to other harder drinks, like vodka or beer? "Besides if it were a gov't controled substance- do you not think that there would be growers out there that have " the good pot" not the gov't pot?" No. It will be government regulated, not "controlled". Also, if anyone has the means to grow potent hemp, it's the government. "You would have people buying pot for underage people just like they do alchol and then you have a child that may not have been a drug user, but, "hey I mean it is legal...so why not, right?" Caffeine is a drug, literally. Whether you like it or not, your kids are theoretically already drug users. Legalizing pot will not increase juvenile delinquency.
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Any study can be set up to achieve the results you are looking for. Please just do your own homework instead of blindly believeing Nancy Reagan and her ilk. It's very easy to research for yourself on the net these days.
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On another front, we waste too much money on the war against marijuana. Of course, smoking too much pot and driving should be illegal and there should be legal limits for driving, just like for alcohol. And yes, there are some drugs that are really bad that we need to keep out. However, for pot our money could be better spent on a war against identity-theft, fraud, and more proactive measures to prevent copper and appliance theft in urban areas by things like setting up "bait houses" from land bank holdings with goodies to attract thieves in a sting.
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Then Pres. Carter's Administration started spraying herbicide on the Mexican marijuana fields that reduced supply and by the time he left office, an ounce of pot was selling for $80-100. So then people had a choice to spend $100 for pot or for a hard drug. They could rely on a friend to buy a bag of pot so they would try the coke or meth and share it with that friend. All of a sudden in the 1980s cocaine and meth use spiraled out of control. Why? The Federal and state governments attempt to reduce the supply of pot raised the price to where it was equivalent to the hard drugs which led to experimentation and addiction. Studies from other countries who have legalized drugs have shown that use actually decreases because illegal drug use funds other illegal activities which leads to an ever increasing drug culture. Cigarettes are legal but use is declining because of taxation, regulation and education.
We should divert some resources from the war on drugs to a war on ID theft and scams.
Regarding gov't control - it's not control, it's regulated - Let's take alcohol.. Yeah, you still have local distillers making moonshine, but all in all it is fairly mainstream - the same would inevitably happen for Pot. You would have legal dealers, licensed to sell, and required by law to check ages for minors or possible misuse.. See my above example for decongestant... And regarding your comment on children purchasing - I'd rather my kid smoke pot than sniff bath salts, or smoke synthetic products or anything else kids try or do now a days because they can't get the real thing - but I also have been good about raising my kids so i don't worry so much about drugs with them, but still parent - if we do our job, they don't abuse. The smokers will still be smokers, but what makes you think there will be a huge wave of new smokers suddenly craving pot after all these years? Let's spend more time working on real world problems like childhood obesity and education failures and less time on "supposed what if" problems like what might happen if pot is legalized..
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