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Originally Posted by jcj77d
Aside from the health debate over legalizing marijuana, Garrison Courtney, spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Agency, says groups that advocate its taxation sometimes paint too rosy a picture. "It's still a drug,"
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So are alcohol and tobacco, both of which are more dangerous drugs than marijuana since they can directly kill you.
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"Just because it's a good cash crop doesn't mean you should legalize and tax it."
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And why not? Every single other good cash cop is legal and taxed, so why should marijuana be an exception just because of some misinformed politicians in the 1930's?
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"It's not these cute mom-and-pop bong shops anymore," Courtney continued.
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I know plenty of cute mom and pop bong shops.
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"It's violent drug-trafficking groups that are doing all these grows." Local marijuana growers, he says, are the tentacles of international drug-trafficking organizations that bring weapons, violence and a slew of other drugs into the market.
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I know plenty of people who grow for personal use, or who grow to share with friends. Not to mention medical growers in California.... you don't see violent crime involved in that and it's legal. International drug-trafficking along with weapons, violence, and other dangerous drugs all become involved as a result of it being illegal. If it were grown right here in the U.S. by responsible people, regulated, taxed, and sold at the corner store then there wouldn't be a need for all of that dangerous activity.
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"You can't tax a Mexican drug trafficking group," Courtney explains. "That's the side a lot of people don't focus on."
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Who said anything about Mexican drug trafficking being legal? If I can grow it myself or buy it at the store, why would I have to buy it on the black market? None of these marijuana reform organizations are advocating violent crime and trafficking.
This Courtney guy is an idiot. His logic makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Marijuana has been illegal for 70 years, yet it is still the nation's number one cash crop. That fact alone explains why it should be legal.... obviously the people want it. The billions of dollars our government has spent on the "War on Drugs" has done nothing. It's all because of ignorance.