Originally posted by lukster
If all some of you care about is eliminating laws so you can smoke pot you need to put down the bong and try to look at the bigger picture. There is one I assure you.
If Joe Blow sells them they're "illegal drugs", but if the Govt can collect tax $$ on them, those are "controlled substances".
The US Govt is totally cool with drugs, alcohol & cigarettes; both drugs... I'd say it's pretty much a fact Ted Kennedys' blushing vagina complexion is a result of his being a "drug addict".
The bigger picture is that stimulants and opiates are legally produced by the drug companies who cant patent weed and would lose billions if people started smoking NON ADDICTIVE blunts they grew at home for pennies on the dollar, rather paying $60+ for 1 months worth of ADDICTIVE OPIATES like vicodin.
As far a motivation for crime, a heroin junkie that is kick'n will take your head off, or maybe offer to polish it, for the $20 s/he needs to end physical withdrawals.