Marijuana Prohibition ended in Colorado!

[Slimebeast]

oldschoolfool said:

Slimebeast said:

SamuelRSmith, I don't get it. How can you as an ultra-liberal not be in favor of legalizing marijuhanna?

I see this as a first step. Yes, the prison-legal system is an industrial hegemony that will fight for its survival and try to invent new markets (petty crimes) to justify its existence, but as a society and democracy we still have to make the right choices, the most sane choices. And the war on drugs is extremely insane and unethical.

drugs are bad!!!!! mkay. 

Drugs are bad but we still want them. The far majority of people like drugs as a recreation (alcohol).

And if I choose to enjoy something that is potentially harmful to me, society shouldn't punish me. If anything it should help me. And it can help me.

It's been proven that this punishment system does even more harm than the drugs in the first place. It punishes those who are already in need, it gives free money to unproductive people who should do something meaningful instead and it strengthens the criminal underworld.

All these lawyers, jailers, policemen, bureaucrats and politicans who are doing an absolutely meaningless and unproductive work by hunting drugs and drug-users under the pretext of standing for something good. And in reality they're immoral fucking leeches. It's so insane that I want to explode from anger.