At the risk of getting flamed for my screen name ( which refers to recovering from liberalism) and told to “go back to your bong” statistics show that a very large percentage of americans use marijuana socially with no ill effects, morally, financially, legally etc....I will support you’re reasoned posts.
The fact that the vast majority of white, middle or upper class NEVER get arrested or do any jail time, leaves poor minorities which then become the melodramatic poster children of drug use.
If suddenly within a month all those types ( white upper class )not previously arrested WERE taken in, pot would become legal overnight.
So the huge hypocrisy is that we continue to drive drugs underground, destroy countries south of our borders, encourage crime and yet, those that are in the majority of pot users that are NOT arrested let this charade continue.
Alcohol and pot are about equal, with alcohol being somehwat MORE dangerous. Yet we do not prohibit alcohol.
My IRA lost over 50% of its value, Iran and Korea are ready to send us nukes, we have millions of illegals, abortion continues unabated....and the Puritans want me to continue the failed WOD???You have got to be kidding.
Welcome to single-issue land.
“...use marijuana socially with no ill effects, morally, financially, legally...”
What about the idea that willfully violating the law in this way leads people to believe that it is OK to ignore the law? What about the fact that the marijuana supply line is a violent lawless murdering entity which takes over more of America each year? You choose to ignore these ill effects? Or do you believe that they are OK?
More importantly, security and law enforcement agencies simply cannot be diverted to this nonsense while we have savages at the gates who want to kill us and bring down Western Civilization.