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2112 said:
I say legalize it too. Look what legalization did for the alcohol crime cartels. :)
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You mean in 20 years or so some dope runner's kids will all be running for office ala Joe Kennedy the bootlegger??? :26::sifone: Maybe Ben Kramer's kid can run for Mayor of Miami :rofl:
 
if kwame and whats his name..the crack addict fom DC, an actor who can't friggin speak english and a fake wrestler can succeed in politics....why not son's of drug smugglers... hell Obama probably sold a couple joints in his college carrer....
 
phragle said:
if kwame and whats his name..the crack addict fom DC, an actor who can't friggin speak english and a fake wrestler can succeed in politics....why not son's of drug smugglers... hell Obama probably sold a couple joints in his college carrer....
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Marion Barry.
Remember too, taxes are optional if you are up for office.
 
I'm on the fence with this topic but arguing that the drug cartels and voilent crimes that are associated with them will just "go away" if marijuana was legalized is a major assumption.
 
Dude! Sweet! said:
A couple of thoughts on this... I'm calling bullsh*t on it being CA's largest crop. I know that generally when LE pulls a bust, the weights and thus cash values are skewed because the will often include "non-deliverable" portions of the plants (stems and leaves) rather than the marketable buds of the plants. Additonally the "valuation" is extrapolated from arbitrary and wholly unverifyable multiples.

Second, I'm a civil libertarian (with more "conservative economic policies and hawkish foreign policies) so I have no problem with anyone doing anything that doesn't materially impair the rights of others... However, I firmly believe the we are in a painfully small minority.

There a vast groups of the population of this country that don't differentiate between MJ and heroin... In their minds, they are both Drugs and Drugs are Evil. Not bad for you, not socially innapropriate, but Evil... Fundamentally, something unholy and spawned by the "great deceiver" or what have you. And I think its going to be a hard sell to convince the "moral majority" to sell you their values system in the name of improving the economy (no matter how wrongheaded and absurd we may perceive that value system to be).

Additionally, when Regan labelled the US anti-drug policy "the war on drugs" he put our goverment in a position wherein any change in policy would effective be seen as defeat (at the hands of Drugs, I assume) in the war on drugs. And last I checked, the US isn't in the business of losing wars...

And finally, as a parting shot, I don't see the alcohol and tobacco industries sitting around and allowing this to roll through. Massive amounts of lobbying dollars will be spent to prop up thing like that hoary old "gateway drug" nonsense in an effort to protect market share and eliminate the competition.

Personally, I think its a good idea, but I've already got a $100 bet against it and I'll believe it when I see it...
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Hit the nail on the head. Somebody else commented on behavior while stoned(driving cars and boats, hell even construction equipment). I bet there will be zero tolerance about that IF legalization ever happens.
 
clayinaustin said:
At the risk of pissing off all the Bush lovers and the Obama haters...

This would never happen if Bush was still the persident. Now that Obama is in office, you will see more and more of this happening.

just my two-cents... :cool:
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Hmmm, sorry about that Clay

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D975S2180&show_article=1

Obama joked at one point about the most popular question from his online audience—whether he favored legalizing marijuana and could that turn around the economy.

"I don't know what this says about the online audience," he said with a smile, adding that he opposed legalizing the illicit drug.



I have heard he was a bigger fan of cocaine, so I guess he may feel differently about legalizing that :26:
 
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