Quote (djman72 @ Dec 8 2017 08:31am)
Weed will be legal all over the country, shortly. I'm surprised it hasn't been implemented yet due to the sheer tax $$$$$ the government can collect.
its all a house of cards man. they've been filling prisons for years to make WAY more money than legal pot will bring while justifying this with rhetoric of heroin, meth, and other hard drugs. If they legalize nationally how many millions of hours will need to be pardoned for existing prisoners? How much will that process cost? How much will nationwide training for officers on new mary j breathalyzers cost let alone the machines themselves. then what do we do with prisons built in the last 10 years? What effect does a 10-20%+ reduction in the demand for prison guards, bail bondsmen, and parole officers do? And what message of credibility does this collapse of cards send about the govt as a whole?
There is but one answer to this quagmire. State legalization and sub-state decriminalization. Slowly reduce the presence of small amount pot offenders in jail/prison by ticketing. state legalization doesn't matter for federal prisoners. then once it's a low enough amount reschedule it. once enough states are legalized and the prison population dwindles enough then and only then can it be legalized. My senior year I wrote a 20 page paper on why pot should NOT be legalized, i was pretty stoned at the time.
This post was edited by thesnipa on Dec 8 2017 08:39am