The price of legalizing pot is too high
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DerbyX @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:18 pm
bootlegga bootlegga:
Get yourself stoned then read them.
ASLplease @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:20 pm
as long as you agree to give up coffee, too.
DerbyX @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:20 pm
Gunnair Gunnair:
Donny_Brasco Donny_Brasco:
I'm having a hard time tracking down a list of the health concerns that are going to outweigh the cost of not arresting the 775,000 people cought for possession in the states last year.
Anyone have a stat on lung cancers, diseases, or other health issues that this article claims will cost us billions?
Anyone have a stat on lung cancers, diseases, or other health issues that this article claims will cost us billions?
I'm curious of the simple cradle to grave cost of arresting and processing someone for pot possesion.
Here is an overview of the CJC cost
Lemmy @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:21 pm
OnTheIce OnTheIce:
These vices already cost you and I billions a year more than we make in taxes so why bend on the weed issue? Haven't we learned from the others?
There's really much more downside to legalizing pot than upside. While stoners will be happy, the rest of us will be stuck with the billions in health care costs, etc, etc.
There's really much more downside to legalizing pot than upside. While stoners will be happy, the rest of us will be stuck with the billions in health care costs, etc, etc.
That's complete horseshit. By that logic, we should criminalize the Burger King and KFC and television and video games and motorcycles and every other goddamn thing that has negative health effects.
ASLplease @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:22 pm
DerbyX DerbyX:
Get yourself stoned then read them.
that would be even worse. Have you ever worked a 12 hour shift stoned? it feels like an entire week.
DerbyX @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:23 pm
ASLplease ASLplease:
DerbyX DerbyX:
Get yourself stoned then read them.
that would be even worse. Have you ever worked a 12 hour shift stoned? it feels like an entire week.
Ever tree planted stoned? Made the whole day fun even if you did plant less trees.
Public_Domain @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:23 pm
Public_Domain @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:24 pm
DerbyX @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:24 pm
Lemmy Lemmy:
OnTheIce OnTheIce:
These vices already cost you and I billions a year more than we make in taxes so why bend on the weed issue? Haven't we learned from the others?
There's really much more downside to legalizing pot than upside. While stoners will be happy, the rest of us will be stuck with the billions in health care costs, etc, etc.
There's really much more downside to legalizing pot than upside. While stoners will be happy, the rest of us will be stuck with the billions in health care costs, etc, etc.
That's complete horseshit. By that logic, we should criminalize the Burger King and KFC and television and video games and motorcycles and every other goddamn thing that has negative health effects.
It is horseshit. The costs associated with tobacco far exceed drug costs and those are far exceeded by all the associated health problems caused by obesity.
DerbyX @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:26 pm
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
ASLplease ASLplease:
as long as you agree to give up coffee, too.
I don't drink coffee either. Gives me problems.
That just leaves sex to give up. We'll say the same thing to everybody who drinks alcohol or coffee, smokes, or gambles. You can only have one vice so choose wisely.
Telling drug users they can use legally if they give up everything else is idiotic.
Public_Domain @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:26 pm
Public_Domain @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:27 pm
ASLplease @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:28 pm
obesity is not a strain on healthcare. Obese people dont live long enough to get a serious illness.
same goes for smokers
DerbyX @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:28 pm
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Ever read MacBeth stoned?
It's not possible...
It's not possible...
Kid, I graduated university. You'd be surprised what we did stoned. My buds and I deliberately got stoned and handed in a biology paper we did just to see. Got an 84%.
DerbyX @ Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:31 pm
ASLplease ASLplease:
obesity is not a strain on healthcare. Obese people dont live long enough to get a serious illness.
same goes for smokers
same goes for smokers
I work in healthcare and I can tell you that statement is extremely in error. Try googling the cost associated with diabetes (a consequence of obesity) and cancer (consequence of smoking)
I can assure you the costs associated are far higher.
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