Time to stop being hypocrites (Should cannabis be legalised?)

Name: iralarry

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Product:	Should cannabis be legalised?
Date:	08/11/06 (652 review reads)
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Advantages: Benefits to medically needy, tax advantage to government, drop in criminal activity associated with,

Disadvantages: Just another reason to get buzzed, may lessen ambition for some weak folk...

It is rather apparent that one argument for keeping marijuana criminalized is to prevent yet another mind-altering drug from becoming an easily accessible commodity on the open market. Yet that very premise is one that would support the prohibition on alcohol-liquor, beer and wine.
One is correct in stating that freedom requires responsibility, like the responsibility one takes when imbibing too much and entering an automobile, striking and killing my best friends sister in the prime of her life 25 yrs ago. As far as politicians, few would risk their political career to do the right thing which is to legalize it. It is a responsible person/politician who looks to serve the constituency by offering protections that would derive from its legalization. Aside from the tax reward, it virtually ends any criminal activity that is inherent in its distribution. And why deny the public what it wants. Hell, people want scary, gore ridden movies, violent movies; some suggesting they are bad for the psyche of a society, but no one is offering to ban this. Or pornography. All those puritanical self-denying zealots who want to ban sex can not see that this is the very nature of humanity, to engage in what some people refer to as "God's greatest gift to humanity, the orgasm." Hell, everything on earth is bad for your health, too much water, too much food, and too much exercise-all the things that are deemed to benefit us can in and of themselves kill us. We all die, all of us. Why impose so many restrictions and cause undue strife and hardship for people whom can easily benefit from legalized marijuana-those with medical issues lie glaucoma, cancer, nausea inducing diseases, MS, the list goes on. I guess it is the old wedge argument rearing its ugly head-if you give an inch, they will want a yard. Soon, they will be talking about cocaine and heroin legalization. BS. Let us not be hypocrites on this issue. Jesus Christ, we have F*#king guns for anyone to buy in a minute or a few days and you are worried about pot?
CHORUS)
Legalize it
Don't criticize it
Legalize it Yea-ah Yea-ah
And I will advertise it.

Some call it tamjee
Some call it the weed
Some call it marijuana
Some of them call it ganja
Never mind, got to...

(CHORUS)

Singers smoke it
and players of instrument, too
Legalize it Yea-ah Yea-ah
That's the best thing you can do.

Doctors smoke it
Nurses smoke it
Judges smoke it
Even lawyer, too
So you've got to...
Peter Tosh

Summary: Keeping pot illegal is hypocracy at its finest.