Marijuana Legalization Reaches New Awesome High

[Hyperion]

Heroin and meth and ecstasy and cocaine and everything else should be legalized and regulated. I'm not even arguing from an ethical perspective, but logistically, these harder drugs will be sought out by the same crowd that already tampers with them, and it's better to have functional addicts that can seek out rehabilitation when necessary than to throw them in jail or have them seek out sketchy corridors for a fix before the withdrawal sets in.

I've had many friends die from heroin or enter rehab because of it, and I've never seen one good justification for keeping it illegal. I'm sick and tired of seeing people die because the law takes up a morality clause that only scares people into the shady corners of the market.

[spacemonkey]

[eynon81]

[The Dharma Bum]

The reason our system features two dichotomous parties, each pandering to the extreme wing of their respective end of the political spectrum, is that there are really no acceptable answers for the very complicated real problems that affect the majority of the population in the middle.

It's easier to say "Lower taxes for the rich and all of our problems will be solved" or "Tax the pants off of the rich and all of our problems will be solved" and then never really do anything.

Result: Unmet human need.

[spacemonkey]

[eynon81]

[dontworrybehappy]

You can't spend your way out of debt and you can't "stimulus" your way out of a recession. The fact that democrats, despite history not being on their side, continue to try to shove this idea down our throats is absolutely incredible.

Just ask China who already went down this road:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang ... good-idea/

As of April of 2012, their GDP growth rate was ZERO.

FDR raised taxes during his presidency and his tax rates, business regulations, and all his feel-good programs, did nothing for the eight years he first served as president. Sure, during the war unemployment went down considerably (that kind of thing happens when you ship off the ones who would have been in a soup line). Fact is, the recession hadn't really ended until after the war. In fact, despite Truman trying to raise taxes to pay for the war, the Republican-controlled congress cut them almost to the bone, and the economy took off. It proves historically, that cutting taxes raises revenue, but democrats won't hear it.

Reagan didn't raise spending either, that was the democrat-controlled congress. Reagan wanted to lower taxes and cut spending. Democrats gave him the tax cuts, but they increased spending, and that was the last time he tried to work with democrats on an issue. The taxes got us out of the recession, but the increased spending got us to where we were in the 90s.

[Indy]

The Illinois House just passed legalizing here for "medical" reasons. So, a) now the Senate and b) my foot hurts.

[spacemonkey]

Big pharma might be pissed because they will sell less shit that makes you want to kill yourself.

[John Galt]

there's some medical uses for alcohol too, but... i never really cared much for the medical argument about marijuana. it should be legal for recreational use.