The majority of illegal pot sales are made by those at the bottom of the economic scale for the purpose of making ends meet. As great as the benefits of legalization are, it's worth noting that legalization takes one of the few sources of income out of the hands of the poor and gives it to business.
it was easier to get weed than bee. you need a large amount of beer to get drunk at a party but you can get a lot of people high at a party with very little
This guest is out of touch, even if he knows a few factoids that Sam doesn't. Sam is quick to call out soft journalism in the mainstream news and needs to hald himself to the standard that he holds other journalists to.
Mark Kleiman is (mostly) right, the sensible solution lies somewhere between beatleapostle's mistaking of prohibitions with regulations and lack of respect for marijuana's (relatively minor) harms, and the mindless proselytizing of michael hall's inane prohibitionist statement below. There's a happy middle here, and nobody will get to the best solution by screaming "marijuana's perfect" or "marijuana's evil" with their ears plugged and their eyes shut.
There is no "pitfall" of legalization. Not a one.
The majority of illegal pot sales are made by those at the bottom of the economic scale for the purpose of making ends meet. As great as the benefits of legalization are, it's worth noting that legalization takes one of the few sources of income out of the hands of the poor and gives it to business.
this guy. what the fuck? why?
most of the US is for legal Pot. Make it legal and show us that we the people are still in charge.
There are pitfalls? What are they.
"Ughhhh" "ummmmm"
We need to be locked into an alcohol model, before this guy already starts rolling back our new rights, again….
That is, we need to be locked into a microbrew style model. Let's keep marlboro out.
And what the fuck is he talking about, "black market"….. you can have your friends pot, just like your friend's beer, it's LEGAL there.
it was easier to get weed than bee. you need a large amount of beer to get drunk at a party but you can get a lot of people high at a party with very little
you make people be responsible especially if there adults.
roll roll roll your j
gently down the stream, er boardwalk
merrily merrily merrily merrily
life is but a lemon-kush-hybrid dream
This guest is out of touch, even if he knows a few factoids that Sam doesn't. Sam is quick to call out soft journalism in the mainstream news and needs to hald himself to the standard that he holds other journalists to.
legalizing Marijuana would solve the debt crisis in a matter of weeks
Mark Kleiman is (mostly) right, the sensible solution lies somewhere between beatleapostle's mistaking of prohibitions with regulations and lack of respect for marijuana's (relatively minor) harms, and the mindless proselytizing of michael hall's inane prohibitionist statement below. There's a happy middle here, and nobody will get to the best solution by screaming "marijuana's perfect" or "marijuana's evil" with their ears plugged and their eyes shut.
(I'm asking because I don't know…) Should the gov't go out of its way to try to prevent bad habits from forming among the populace?
Keep the price high? Add more prohibitions? I don't understand why Sam was treating this moron with such undue respect.
Luckily, there are no marijuana addicts.