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Originally Posted by Golfingnut
Legalize it, give farmers a new money crop, tax it and stop spending $$$$$$$$ on prisons and courts for offenders and even give back a freedom. That should appeal to both the right and the left.
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It has been said that you can't get medical marijuana unless your doctor first determines that you have a need for it. So it won't be given to young people. But just think about what you have said about giving farmers a new money crop:
Will these crops be raised under conditions of high security? Farmers have children; will their children have access to the crops? Will their teenagers pick some of it to smoke it themselves and sell some to their friends at school? How about the farmers neighbors? Not to mention criminal activity where criminals steel it to sell to teenagers and others who don't have a medical need.
Now imagine thousands of farmers raising thousands of acres of marijuana. Sounds like a prescription for losing control of the supply.