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Good points, in my opinion. ^
In trying to envision some sort of best case scenario wrt marijuana, I look at what drugs are successfully regulated and I see only some ofthose that are available by prescription only. Criminal penalties are there for acquiring those drugs with no doctor's prescription, but efforts to get them for a high will always be there, so they end up on the streets for sale.
It's good that oxycodone is regulated, imagine the damage out there if it were over the counter.
But when marijuana is looked at as so dangerous that it cannot even be acquired via prescription, such as truly dangerous drugs are, it makes you wonder just what the motivation is to keep it criminalized altogether.
An interesting part of its history has to do with J. Randolph Hearst, a newspaper mogul, lobbying for its illegalization back when he felt his paper mills and logging companies being threatened by hemp growers who could produce paper far cheaper than the lumber industry could. The "evil weed" notion came about then, as a way to turn the voting public against any thought of allowing marijuana to be legal. That was about a hundred years ago.
In trying to envision some sort of best case scenario wrt marijuana, I look at what drugs are successfully regulated and I see only some ofthose that are available by prescription only. Criminal penalties are there for acquiring those drugs with no doctor's prescription, but efforts to get them for a high will always be there, so they end up on the streets for sale.
It's good that oxycodone is regulated, imagine the damage out there if it were over the counter.
But when marijuana is looked at as so dangerous that it cannot even be acquired via prescription, such as truly dangerous drugs are, it makes you wonder just what the motivation is to keep it criminalized altogether.
An interesting part of its history has to do with J. Randolph Hearst, a newspaper mogul, lobbying for its illegalization back when he felt his paper mills and logging companies being threatened by hemp growers who could produce paper far cheaper than the lumber industry could. The "evil weed" notion came about then, as a way to turn the voting public against any thought of allowing marijuana to be legal. That was about a hundred years ago.