@flo Come on, seriously, most people who don’t want to legalize a substance like marijuana would not want any laws criminalizing alcohol, sexual promiscuity, gambling, etc but yet these vices are at least as bad as drugs with the problems that they can (and frequently do) cause. There is a problem with this type of thinking though, one side goes to jail, gets fined and frequently have their lives ruined just for weed, but let me guess the other vices are human nature so we’ll just leave them alone? My tax monies pay for these other fuckups as well, and they have adverse effects on our society as a whole.
I don’t understand when you say The point is the fact that there are other things that cost taxpayers, is neither here or there. It doesn’t mitigate the seriousness of the problem. My whole point isn’t to deny the seriousness of the problems associated with drugs, but what good are we doing as a civilized society by either refusing to ackowledge or just downplaying many problems that lead to eventual drug use, but yet continuing to condemn drug use? I also notice that many of the antidrug crowd (not claiming you personally) tends to downplay issues like bullying, harrassment, alcohol, economics, racism, etc.
There is also growing evidence that these other issues that many in the antidrug crowd tend to downplay have not only a much bigger impact on fucking up people’s lives than we could had ever imagined, but lead to eventual drug use. Obviously this obsession with the war on drugs while downplaying the roles of other problems have not worked. You’re talking about me not acknowledging the seriousness of the problems associated with illegal drugs, but since when is being self-righteous because my vice isn’t as bad as your vice a virtue?