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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-22-07 02:10 PM
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I don't think we should legalize marijuana.
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I used to, it seemed to me like a no brainer. Not anymore.

You see, I was just debating people on immigration, and they came up with a very good point. If you gave amnesty to the illegal immigrants, then the legal immigrants, the ones who jumped through all the bureaucratic hoops, well then they would feel jealous.

And it occurred to me that the same thing would apply to marijuana. Why, think of all the people who spent all those years in prison because of marijuana. If we just ignore the rule of law and make marijuana legal, then all those people in prison would feel bad for wasting all that time which they would have been using redeeming themselves properly. And all those people who worked so hard on medical marijuana and getting prescriptions. They'd feel bad too. And lets not forget all of those people who got passports, and filled out green cards, and visas, and entered the Netherlands legally so that they could enjoy marijuana. Just imagine how pissed off those people would be.

Frankly, this logic certainly applies to everything that was once illegal, and then got legalized. Maybe we should reillegalize those things again. You know, things like sodomy, or, I don't know, miscegenation. Women's suffrage.

You wouldn't want to be unfair to people.
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