Forget trump/hilliary. How about the Pot vote?

[WagnerPaiva]

Soundwave said:

WagnerPaiva said:

Well, I guess America has laws about driving under the influence, so that part is covered either way. I think it is a bad idea, but I do not have strong feelings about it, specially because I am also a ex-junkie and my father was. You do not get high by tobacco, but I agree with you: alchool can make a person totally wasted and dangerous, but, you know, it is impossible to forbid alchool, remember the Al Capone fiasco back in the 20s.

But the mere fact that George Soros is behind it tells me it is a terrible idea.

However, I do not have strong feelings about this as a legislation issue: if something harms a person and his family, soon enough they will drop it or the family will be destroyed. Users will skyrocket, I am sure, but I do not see it as a very important issue.

America should keep some states dope free and the rest not. If you are a junkie, you can live in those. That is a solution...

That would be ridiculous, first of all the majority of pot users are not "junkies". A huge chunk of college students use pot, they're all "junkies"?

Having a country where something like marijuana is legal in half the states but can get you thrown in prison in the other half is stupid. 

But hey in that sense, then the people in those "illegal" states should then also have to pay higher taxes to cover the higher prison population for petty marijuana violations. So they can put their money where their mouth is. 

For profit prisons are actually the main lobby group against legalizing, because they know if pot were legal everywhere the prison population would drop (which is paid for by tax payers) and that's bad for them. Gotta keep those prisons full. 

A junkie is someone that can not stop using the drug I guess, has to use it everyday, or every other day.

There are a bunch of states in the US where hemp is legal already. It is not ridiculous, the US is a true federarion, it can have 50 diferent penal codes, one for each state.

I know that, for a fact, some states have death penalty and other do not. And that is a harder issue than hemp, I am sure.