hardly anyone dies or is injured seriously from smoking pot. however 4,000 people a day are arrested for using or distributing drugs. 1/2 million people are serving hard time for it. and for what? did they hurt anyone besides themselves?
another issue is the farmers. the us tells them to stop growing but they don’t because they’re poor. they simply can’t make money selling anything else. when they do switch crops, the demand (therefore price) of the drug goes up. this makes it much more tempting for a farmer who doesnt have enough money to feed his family, to start growing the drug.
so then what does the us do? we set fire to their feilds or poison them. now how are they to get by? so whats more important, making sure a teenager doesnt lose a few brain cells, or the lives of thousands of farmers who depend on their crop?
well any patriotic american would say screw the growers, they’re poisoning our youth!
might i add many european countries have legalized pot and a lower percentage of youth smoke it.
plus think of the money we lose on this war on drugs (read: war on poor) we are losing billions and the amount of drugs being shipped has not slowed!