On The Legalization of Cannabis

[sleepy1212]

It is my belief that the criminalization of cannabis is a self-fulfilling effort to strengthen the anti-drug budget, and provide cheap fodder for the privatized prison system that is growing worldwide.

I believe that a beneficial system could be maintained wherein cannabis was legalized to the fullest extent, and regulated in a similar sense to tobacco, prohibiting the sale to minors, and taxing the production of those who market cannabis commercially. Apart from that, anyone should be allowed to cultivate cannabis for their own personal use.

agreed. I also would add the prevention of gang related crime, see: Laredo, TX.

I disagree with the idea that it is not addictive. It may not be your typical chemical dependency complete with painful withdraw symptoms like heroin but it is addictive. Lack of physiological addiction does not preclude psychological addiction which can be just as powerful as the former and harder to treat.

I also do not harbor any delusion that marijuana smokers will act more responsibly than people who drink. There will always be abusers of substances, legal or not. The abusers of any substance do not represent the average consumer.

Just look at mexico and see how well that regulation and legalization is holding out.

Mexico regulating anything is laughable and doesn't compare to the US. Which makes me wonder...

Who lives in a country where cannabis is legal/not legal?