Should the US legalize drugs?

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Bitmap Frogs on 02 March 2009

Alcohol is a pretty mean drug, and it is legal. Sure, make marihuana and derivatives (hashis, oil) legal. Only allowed to consume at "coffe shops", anywhere else and it's jail/huge fine.

Isn't this a time of economical depression? Think about the billions alcohol and tobacco industries mean for the economy: taxes, jobs, etc... Marihuana would contribute towards the economy both increasing revenue and lowering costs (prison inmates, legal proceedings, etc).

There's a congressman at California trying to pass off a law making weed legal in California. He was claiming it would mean one billion / year in taxes (out of a 18B industry).

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akuma587 on 03 March 2009

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FaRmLaNd on 03 March 2009

I 100% support the legalisation of drugs.

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Hawkeye on 03 March 2009

akuma587 said:

Cheebee said:
What about coffee? I bet that's harmful. America should ban coffee! And while they're at it, ban the crap food as well, fastfood should be illegal there, it's killing more people than drugs I bet.

I'm actually for outlawing fast food. That shit is destroying our health as a nation and is costing our healthcare system billions of dollars.

I take it you are for whatever is most efficient in a debatable economic issue. I feel the same way. We should legalize drugs, allow illegal immigrants to gain citizenship (but limited or no voting rights for a certain number of years, say 20 or something), and outlaw dangerous foods. McDonalds and BK employ many people true, but if they cost of treating damage caused by McDonalds (mostly in the form of health care expense, though worker productivity is undoubatlby impacted by obesity) outweighs the benefits of profit earned by McDonalds (counting only profit that stays in America- aka profit that helps our country), then McDonalds should be outlawed.

The problem is, the government sometimes almost always does what is popular rather than what is right. For example, it would have been more economically efficient for our country if we started upping the federal gas tax by a predictable $0.04 cents a gallon starting in 1980. Gov revenue would increase, gas wouldn't be so expensive that people wouldn't drive, researchers would develop alternative energy counting on the fact that it would be viable by the year 20xx, and the auto companies would be able to better anticipate consumer need for fuel efficient cars, all the while helping the enviroment by discouragin unnescary driving. Also, CAFE standards would become unnesicary.