Hello fellow Deviants,


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To begin this bluntly Prohibition does not work, the weed market in this country is insanely elaborate, and nothing the government has done has even put a dent into it. In 2008 alone 1.8 billion dollars of tax payers money was spent on investigation, arrest and Incarceration, and that is for only people who were using, not dealing not trafficking just using. Now the state of California received 28 point something BILLION in tax on THC products imagine if every state could do that, think of all the growing jobs and regulation jobs, give jobs and pull us out of dept! Now how do you feel that your money is going to a War that is getting more expensive every DAY, so lets look at it the other way, the officials opposing the legalization of Marijuana say: it will be abused, people lives will be lost to it, it has just as many Chemicals when u smoke weed as when u smoke cigarettes, and many other excesses.
Well i will not lie i smoked for a month straight (I call that abuse) and i just gained 5 pounds, Abuse of Cigarettes leads to cancer abuse of Alcohol leads many different ends all painful all preventable. Your right people might get lost in weed MIGHT if you have a addictive personality or any version of dependancy issues then yeas just like alcohol you can get lost in it but THC can not kill you if you ingest enough u will just either pass out or eat everything in your house. Yes, you do inhale just as many chems as in cigarettes, BUT if it is legalized it will lead to more types of healthy ingestion like baked goods and teas.