Comments on: Putting Pot Where It Belongs http://stash.norml.org/putting-pot-where-it-belongs The Growing Truth About Cannabis Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:08:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paradym http://stash.norml.org/putting-pot-where-it-belongs/comment-page-1#comment-8393 Paradym Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:44:30 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=4286#comment-8393 The contortions of logic these people will submit themselves to in order to support their puritanical mindset makes my brain hurt. The contortions of logic these people will submit themselves to in order to support their puritanical mindset makes my brain hurt.

]]> By: Jillian http://stash.norml.org/putting-pot-where-it-belongs/comment-page-1#comment-8376 Jillian Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:39:43 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=4286#comment-8376 Decrim really isn't such a great idea. When you consider that the greatest harms caused by the prohibition are the brutal murders being committed by the cartels, and that decrim would probably *increase* the amount of marijuana consumed (and therefore money flowing to the cartels), then it seems apparent that this policy, while fixing some of the problems caused by the prohibition, would increase the severity of its greatest flaws. Legalization avoids all this by eliminating the money going to the cartels, and thus eliminating their incentive to kill and corrupt. The violence caused by Al Capone and the other gangsters was the reason why the alcohol prohibition was ended. The violence caused by the cartels will be the reason the marijuana prohibition will end. If it was being committed inside this country the prohibition would have ended decades ago. Decrim really isn’t such a great idea.

When you consider that the greatest harms caused by the prohibition are the brutal murders being committed by the cartels, and that decrim would probably *increase* the amount of marijuana consumed (and therefore money flowing to the cartels), then it seems apparent that this policy, while fixing some of the problems caused by the prohibition, would increase the severity of its greatest flaws.

Legalization avoids all this by eliminating the money going to the cartels, and thus eliminating their incentive to kill and corrupt.

The violence caused by Al Capone and the other gangsters was the reason why the alcohol prohibition was ended. The violence caused by the cartels will be the reason the marijuana prohibition will end. If it was being committed inside this country the prohibition would have ended decades ago.

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