Found this at http://earth2obama.org/, thanks to a vid by Obsidianstorm.

Insulting isn't it?

Five votes! Christ are all the Obama supporters really gonna sweep this under the rug? He just insulted you (online supporters) right to your face, you the people who raised him half a billion dollars.

I doubt legalization would have a noticeable effect on the economy. The reason a lot of people buy weed is because they're too scared to grow it themselves due to its highly-detectable nature. If people decide to grow their own then it wouldn't do much to increase tax revenue. It would help state prison budgets, but not enough to help the economy significantly. Enforcement money would still be spent, but it would be directed at other drugs like meth.

It should still be legalized though. Besides our complete inability to control it in the first place, the only people it hurts are willing participants. People already use marijuana despite its illicit nature, so legalization would have the benefit of redirecting a large portion of any money involved to legitimate organizations.

The desire to use weed isn't going away, and as long as supplying it is profitable there will always be underground organizations willing to supply it. You could get rid of every mexican drug cartel that exists today and they would be replaced within a month... there is simply too much incentive for people to get rich supplying something that so many people want but are too scared to grow themselves.

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>> ^Psychologic:
I doubt legalization would have a noticeable effect on the economy. The reason a lot of people buy weed is because they're too scared to grow it themselves due to its highly-detectable nature. If people decide to grow their own then it wouldn't do much to increase tax revenue. It would help state prison budgets, but not enough to help the economy significantly. Enforcement money would still be spent, but it would be directed at other drugs like meth.
It should still be legalized though. Besides our complete inability to control it in the first place, the only people it hurts are willing participants. People already use marijuana despite its illicit nature, so legalization would have the benefit of redirecting a large portion of any money involved to legitimate organizations.
The desire to use weed isn't going away, and as long as supplying it is profitable there will always be underground organizations willing to supply it. You could get rid of every mexican drug cartel that exists today and they would be replaced within a month... there is simply too much incentive for people to get rich supplying something that so many people want but are too scared to grow themselves.


Well put, Psychologic.

I might add that even if economic benefit to the economy is modest, I think that there will still be positive impact.

Just think of how many more people could be working and producing actual goods in the economy if the prisons were emptied of non-violent, marijuana-related offenders. The government savings from food and housing costs once eligible prisoners are released would be in the millions of dollars. The labour provided by the ex-cons would only add to that benefit.

>> ^Psychologic:
I doubt legalization would have a noticeable effect on the economy.


But it wouldn't hurt the economy, either.

And it would help reduce violence in Mexico and keep a few million decent people from living in fear.

A doctor is facing a huge prison sentence in California for distrubuting medical marijuana.

Did you ever bother to think of him, or all of the other people like him who are suffering under the bootheel of our draconian laws?

>> ^rougy:
>> ^Psychologic:
I doubt legalization would have a noticeable effect on the economy.

But it wouldn't hurt the economy, either.
And it would help reduce violence in Mexico and keep a few million decent people from living in fear.
A doctor is facing a huge prison sentence in California for distrubuting medical marijuana.
Did you ever bother to think of him, or all of the other people like him who are suffering under the bootheel of our draconian laws?



Your comment is written like you disagree with something in my post, but I can't tell which part you're disagreeing with.

This clip needs to be 5 seconds longer.

Legalize it already.

>> ^Psychologic:
Your comment is written like you disagree with something in my post, but I can't tell which part you're disagreeing with.


No, not disagreeing.

Just didn't read your comment all the way through.

Consider it less of a response than an addendum, or a footnote.