Hello Ryu,
You're right, I'm not an objective viewer on this subject, but it's not because I smoke pot. In fact, I don't smoke it at all.
The reason it should be legalized is because of all the other benefits it would bring. Hemp has been around for thousands of years and it has very useful industrial applications. A field of hemp can be used to make clothes, paper, rope, animal feed, etc... The list is endless. And, a new crop can be planted and harvested in about 4-5 months when you have to wait an average of 20 years for trees.
You're right, an anti-drug poster would post just as many statistics to "prove" that marijuana is harmful. Please refer to my previous post under item 16, which says that previous results made by government agencies were greatly OVEREXAGGERATED.
Why is it that nobody is arguing the harmful effects of cocaine or heroin use/addiction/etc...??? It's because everyone knows these are harmful drugs. Even the people who use them will tell you that. It's just that they're already addicted and can't help it.
There is a lot of money that's going to be lost by Industries like TOBACCO and ALCOHOL should marijuana be legalized. Those corporations are the ones giving law-makers in Washington major amounts of money to prevent that from happening.
I don't expect for you to agree with me, but we can agree to disagree. But there are people who should not be labeled criminals for smoking a little bit of "weed".
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