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According to one of the sites lexi sent me, at one point in virginia i believe, marijuana possesion carried a mandatory 40 year prison sentence. Murder in the first degree carried a mandatory 15 year sentence, and rape had a mandatory 10 year sentence. Doesnt anyone but me see somethign wrong with that?
Also, a lot of problems with weed dont actually come from weed. granded, abusing pot over an extended period of time does deteriorate your brain, but then again, alcohol does the same thing. Anyway, a lot of problems come from when pot is laced with some other drug. kinda like back in prohibition when people would mix whatever tehy could find in their bathtubs and call it alcohol. When prohibithion ended, the governemt was able to set standerds for it, and it became much safer. the same could possibly be said for weed. Also, organized crime had a lot to do with alcohol distribution in the 20s, as they have a hand in distributing pot today. Make it legal, and you take away their profit. How will you take away their profit for sure? if weed can be purchased out in the open, for a certain price, then drug dealers cant charge astronomical prices for it. see where i'm going with this?
Also, all of the points listed about the downside of marijuana applies to alcohol as well.
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