[RoosterRedux]

Though I firmly believe that pot is poison (for the individual and society), I believe the best way to control it is to treat it like a social stigma.

It's prohibition is extremely expensive and empowers the drug cartels.

[svcw]

poison?

[bramps]

It's prohibition is extremely expensive and empowers the drug cartels.

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The damage that pot does to young brains and initiative is miles higher than the cost of prohibition. Laws simply need to be enforced and good people (most importantly, parents) need to stand up and call evil what it is. Pot's insidious because it seems relatively harmless. But anyone who's been around conversations with pot smokers knows that it's truly deadly to the brain.

[henkster]

I have been a prosecutor/defense attorney/judge for almost 30 years now. I have come to the conclusion that the “war on drugs” as currently fought is a failure. It is the same failure that Prohibition was in the 1920’s. You cannot use the Courtroom to change people’s behaviors. It just doesn’t work.

As long as people want to smoke pot, they will smoke pot. The only way to have people stop smoking pot is a negative social stigma coupled with some internal sense of “wrongness” in the activity. Most people won’t have sex with dead animals in their front yards because the notion of doing so is repellent to them. That same sense of “wrongness” needs to apply to pot smoking.

Government should deal with the pot issue is the same as every other “bad” behavior, in my opinion. Stop subsidizing it. Stop supporting it. If someone wants to smoke pot, fine. If they can only keep a minimum wage job, let them lead a minimum wage life. No government handouts or support, no disability payments. Let people live with the consequences of their decisions, and if the consequences are bad, they can serve as an example to others.