[brent13a]

Arresting the sick, dying, and lame… Because they are so easy to catch.

A completely valid complaint. As is the complaint that there are billions of dollars wasted on "catching the little guy".


Here's my question though:
When marijuana is 99% legalized and all the "sickly" have a plant or two for personal use growing at home, as well as a week or two worth of fresh marijuana drying, what happens when local druggies and junkies start robbing and hurting and killing the sick and elderly for their one or two plants?
What happens when those sick and elderly decide to start peddling some of their personal use stuff?


Before any of you smarties flame me realize that it already happens for the elderly's pills.
The more pills prescribed to the elderly the more their relatives steal them and the elderly sell the pills themselves.

[Ken H]

When marijuana is 99% legalized and all the "sickly" have a plant or two for personal use growing at home, as well as a week or two worth of fresh marijuana drying, what happens when local druggies and junkies start robbing and hurting and killing the sick and elderly for their one or two plants?

So why isn't that happening in states that have medical marijuana?

[Pearls Before Swine]

When marijuana is 99% legalized and all the "sickly" have a plant or two for personal use growing at home, as well as a week or two worth of fresh marijuana drying, what happens when local druggies and junkies start robbing and hurting and killing the sick and elderly for their one or two plants? What happens when those sick and elderly decide to start peddling some of their personal use stuff?

When everyone has a plant or two, the value will be a few dollars per ounce. Why would anyone bother to rob or peddle?

I know a few people who homebrew beer. They don't live in fear of someone breaking in for their latest batch of ale. If the value is low, there won't be a problem.

However, I agree that there is an intermediate, semi-legal state, such as currently exists in CA, where it's partially restricted, so there's value, and the sorts of things you postulate do happen. The solution is to make it widely legal and forget about it.