why does the united states spend so munch on keeping marijuana illegal?
i asked a similar question about an hour ago and got alot of good answers but some really dumb answers arose some more questions like theres more in it for the government to keep it illegal then to legalize marijuana hows that when were spending 19 billion each year on the war on drugs is america making that munch money busting marijuana users and i know the 19 billion the united states spends each year goes toward keeping every other drug off the streets but if you get busted with anything else but marijuana you go to jail then america spends even more money trying to correct our mistakes like how many hard drugs users go to jail only once
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1 :
Thank you! The only reason I have hear that makes any sense is racism because black people enjoy pot. Think about it, you can make a killing off the market with pot, and you can tax it just like you tax tobacco.
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“Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.†Its use has rarely been a public safety issue. One cannot overdose on it. Moreover, its legalization would be a tremendous boost to improve public safety. Why? Road officers spend million of hours searching cars for a baggie of pot. They could concentrate on the deadly DUI and reckless drivers. They would be re-directed to find and arrest the child predators on line looking for a 13 year old girl. Federal agents could completely focus on Al Qaeda and stop wasting time on medical marijuana gardens in California.†Taxing pot like whiskey would generate some $6.4 billion: not chump change! Better, governments waste $10 billion chasing Willie Nelson and his friends and putting them in jail. Federal studies show tobacco as the first illegal drug teens use. Alcohol comes second with marijuana third! The Institute of Medicine in 1999 conducted that study. Less than two percent of marijuana users move on to an abusive relationship with hard drugs. “Envision a country which employs the principles of personal responsibility, personal freedom and limited/effective government toward marijuana,†I see a growing respect for the police, as they stop intruding into the decisions of adults, made in the privacy of their castles. Teens find it as hard to buy pot as beer. Fewer teens use it because it lost its glamour. Imagine a land where the deadly DUI and reckless drivers kill far fewer, as officers’ focus on them, not the next pot bust. Envision detectives arresting more child predators as they abandon the time spent arresting someone selling pot to an adult. All this becomes possible, when America becomes wiser and abandons the prohibition approach to marijuana.â€
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There's no money to be made if it's legalized. Sure, they could legalize and tax it, but you could probably grow it yourself, so it wouldn't be any more taxable than the tomatoes you grow for your own consumption.
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So they can put people in jail, prisons employ millions of people who would otherwise be stealing and raping babies.
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Think of all the law enforcement, prison, parole officers who's existence would not be needed anymore. How many "agencies" could no longer justify their existence? The Government spends money, you "we" pay for it. Do you think they care what they spend it on? If "drugs" were legalized the massive police state would have a hard time "finding" crime to stop, or maybe they would just create more.
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Because it is the capitalistic way of employment for many.
