Re: “LETTER: What attitudes will prevail towards opiates after marijuana legalization?”
…If you listen to the harbage on CNN, their argument always centers around pro/con marijuana, they argue how using it is beneficial! This type of conversation won’t translate to actually ending prohibition.
The entire focus shouldn’t be about marijuana being safe, consuming substances is never good for the body. I would also mention our high fat diet is unsafe, not to mention listening to right wing talk shows!
The focus should be on why prohibition is horrific policy, and how it causes an extreme amount of harm to our society.
We need to slap down these marijuana isn’t that bad arguments, It may be true…. but that’s not the reason we need to legalize.
What “extreme” harm to society? Casual marijuana users are not incarcerated. As for me, I don’t really care what substance people use but I don’t want to be involved in cleaning up their addiction mess at any level.
EDITOR: So long as the sale of marijuana is illegal, criminal elements will prosper, many will be lured into the lower levels of distribution, contact with criminal elements may lead to use of dangerous drugs, the criminal justice system and prisons will be under strain, there can be no purity safeguards, children will be able to purchase pot, and there will be no tax revenue from a huge industry.
We have long advocated ‘tax, regulation and control’.