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Old 08-05-2014, 10:04 AM
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HOWEVER the biggest issue I personally find with this marijuana issue is with ALL THE SERIOUS PROBLEMS WE HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY OUR STATE AND FEDERAL LEADERS ARE WASTING TIME AND RESOURCES PLACING LEGALIZATION AS A TOP PRIORITY.
I think you are going the right direction but have stopped before you reached the end of your journey. State and federal leaders are not spending time and resources on legalization. They spend time and resources on criminalization, investigation, incarceration and probation. The estimates are in the several billions per year. While this is certainly good for the jail industry I suspect that locking people up for smoking a joint is not slowing the use of weed any more than locking up people for having sex has stopped normal people from that activity It just makes you more careful about when and where and contributes to a disrespect for the priorities of law enforcement.