Originally posted by lasersailor184
The moment he steps outside into the real world, his actions affect those around him. If his judgement is impaired, he will do stupid stuff. This is why drugs should be illegal.
You are making an argument for prohibition. How many people drive home every weekend from a nightclub DUI? Shoot, some clubs even have valet parking.
I would like to know who told the police that they were growing pot in there, doesn't the family have a legal case against that person? They put the trash out just before the trash truck came? Ahh, isn't that what everyone does? Nothing like having animals tear your trash apart in front of your house. A police dog was alerted to the house? Did the dog get a phone call? I mean, how close was the dog to the house, and does alerted mean, looked at?
Legalize pot? C'mon, that's kinda crazy, imo. Why give kids another bad habit to form? Look, if you want to grow a plant in your home and smoke it, that's your business. But why legalize? I do not think it is a good idea. I realize that with all the drugs that are out there, that pot is probably the least harmful, but you cannot convince me legalizing is the way to go. I was a teenager in the "70's", and smoking pot was the cool thing to do, everyone did it and if you didn't you were not cool. Say no to drugs was never heard, I don't want to see times change again and have pot smoking be the cool thing to do again.
The war on drugs
Along came the 80's and "say no to drugs" became the mainstream(thank god). But the war on drugs did not go quite the way they planned. The price of pot skyrocketed while the price of cocaine dropped like a lead balloon. The cheap bag of pot in the 70's was replaced by the cheap rock of crack in the 80's. Along came the 90's and extasy was added to the many drugs available. Now oxycontin is being robbed from pharmacies. Yet we target a house because they have a high electric bill and might be growing pot in THEIR HOME.
Maybe it isn't the war on drugs itself, maybe it's just where it's being waged. In downtown Boston there is a nightclub that sells 5 dollar bottles of water. Why water? Because extasy and oxycontin are the rage and they don't drink alcohol with extasy(it diminishes the high), so they drink water all night, and pay for it(you are not allowed to bring in your own water). Now everyone in the place is doing and passing drugs(some passing out in their seats), and the club is catering to it, yet this place of business is not targeted. Yet a suburban house is targeted for pot? Seems to me they are barking up the wrong tree.
Through all my years i've seen or read about overdoses of crack, angel dust(3 people on a school bus going to my highschool), cocaine, heroin, oxycontin and others, but I have never heard of a pot overdose. And while I don't believe in legalizing pot, I do not believe it should be priority one.
