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Old 06-09-2009
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Re: Make an argument as to why marijuana should be illegal....

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Originally Posted by reality View Post
Not it at all. Alcohol prohibition didn't work because its you can make it at home with sugar. Just like you can grow pot in your closet easily. Coke heroin are nearly impossible to produce in your backyard. With stiffer penalties, tighter border control, and the like you could really cut down on it. Meth is trickier but it can be done. Just trying to be realistic about what could actually pass through congress.
Why does it matter where these things are made or by whom? Right now, alcohol is made locally and very difficult for children to get. Cocaine and heroin are (generally) made on other continents and school children can get them without issue.

As for stiffer penalties, are you suggesting that this hasn't been tried? Recreational users of cocaine or heroin are already looking at exorbitant jail sentences and it has not mattered one iota. Use has continued unchecked while we put an incredible strain on the penal system and budgets propping up failed policy. Do you really think that raising the penalty for possessing a pocket full of powder from 10 years in federal prison to 15 years is going to matter?

And why does border control matter? If you cut off the land routes, they'll come in by sea. Cut off the sea routes and they'll come in via air. Cut off all of that, lock down the country, and the growth and manufacture here will skyrocket. The supply is driven by the demand, not the other way around. Prohibition tries to remove the supply. It has always failed. It will always fail. And, it will also make things worse (without prohibition, the meth of which you speak would never have existed).
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