“better use of taxpayer dollars than imprisoning users of alcohol, tobacco, or pot”
We agree on this, however I think if you are caught selling/distributing lower the boom. The WOD needs to be fought at the border, banks, and distribution level, not the user level.
So you say that pot in itself injures nobody but the user? So a stoner driving after years of abuse and dumber than a box of rocks and zoned out due to dead brain cells is no danger driving a dump truck through the school zone your kids frequent?
“Stoners are in a minority. Do you propose criminalizing being low-info?”
Ha ha, that would be nice but know. Minority yes but the numbers grow daily of casual users (which to me is a stoner) so I am a bit on the extreme side with this. we have too many naturally stupid people in this world why grow that number?
The BATF is an agency that has outlived is usefulness and in a perfect world re-tasking would mean re-tasking but we are talking about a bloated government. No program/agency has ever been abandoned.
There is no simple answer to the stealing issue since majority of crime goes unreported and is sometimes criminal against criminal (in my book ok). I worked in LE and there is no simple answer to your question but legalizing a harmful substance in the name of “it only hurts the user” is just not true. That is Pandora’s Box.
Regulating for purity and age restrictions is also an infinitely better use of taxpayer dollars than imprisoning sellers of alcohol, tobacco, or pot. It makes no sense to make selling illegal but buying legal becasue they're merely two perspectives on the same act.
So you say that pot in itself injures nobody but the user? So a stoner driving after years of abuse and dumber than a box of rocks and zoned out due to dead brain cells is no danger driving
As soon as you introduce driving into the scenario it's no longer about "pot in itself."
we have too many naturally stupid people in this world why grow that number?
Should we shrink that number by recriminalizing the stupid-making drug alcohol?