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Post by Dan White on May 8, 2009 18:14:34 GMT -5
Morphine is a concentrated form of heroin, remember.
The dude's weed addiction led him to rob houses for valuables to fund his habit. He killed a dude cos of it.
And why can't the government tax it?
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Post by rep on May 8, 2009 18:48:05 GMT -5
Like I said, I don't buy the guy who smoked weed robbing houses to "support his addiction"
Cigarettes aren't imported and sold on the streets by various different outlets and people. It's uncontrollable.
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Post by Dan White on May 8, 2009 18:56:48 GMT -5
But then you could control it. Marlboro Green would be more successful than buying off the street, cos it would be a lot cheaper to produce the leafs, and a massive company like Marlboro could easily beat off street dealers for price.
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Post by rep on May 8, 2009 19:05:51 GMT -5
I doubt it. If it were legalized I would still receive it the way I do now. I'm not buying it in stores. Look what they've done to beer. Americanized products go down the tube immediately.
Another reason for it's illegality, they make money off of the fines they give out to people who are caught with it. You wouldn't give away a major source of income if you were running things. Notice how they were allowing us to vote on what the punishment would be, as opposed to if it should actually be illegal or not.
OF COURSE people would vote for the fine over jail time. We think we're getting closer to legalizing it by doing that... but we're playing right in to what they want. More money, and a valid reasoning to do it, too. After all, we voted for it.
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Post by Dan White on May 8, 2009 19:12:17 GMT -5
In Europe we have it just fine. Our beer is ace, our cigarettes are the best in the world.
I don't think cannibis will ever be legalised. Not in the UK/USA anyways. But even if it was, I don't think it would affect anything here.
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Post by rep on May 8, 2009 19:22:14 GMT -5
It would definitely affect stuff around here if it was legalized here. Not just for the obvious reason that more people would probably be using it, but a ton of young people in urban areas would literally be out of a job. It would be like the job crisis with the machines replacing human beings in various jobs.
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Post by Kim Jong CP on May 8, 2009 19:23:27 GMT -5
I agree with Rep on the fact that alot of young people would be out of a job, especially with the decline in this economy. I'm still pro-legalization with taxation however.
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Jason Freeman
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Post by Jason Freeman on May 8, 2009 19:26:26 GMT -5
As interesting as this conversation is...
Maybe you guys should take it to a different topic? <_<
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Post by Kim Jong CP on May 8, 2009 19:29:46 GMT -5
Oi, Freeman, you hit the shisha at all...
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Post by rep on May 8, 2009 19:41:31 GMT -5
It isn't like there was anything worthwhile going on in here. Rarely does anybody reply with something of value in these topics, I'm just trying to get some discussion going.
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Post by Dan White on May 8, 2009 20:01:02 GMT -5
Erm, but wouldn't it create a lot of new jobs? The mass production of cannabis plants for the large companies who would mass produce it. You can't just tell the cigarette makers to add a bit of weed here and there, it would require new factories and everything. Thus, new jobs.
Plus, you talk about drug dealing being a job for a lot of young people, and that legalising it would take a lot of people out of a job. I think when people are making statistics for these things, people whose only income purely comes from dealing drugs aren't considered to have a job. Because drug dealing is not a job. At least it might prompt them to get proper jobs, rather than be scumbags*.
*For the record I don't think drug takers are scumbags. Just dealers. I get all my gear from people who only manufacture drugs for their own personal use. Because it happens to be family friends, I get my stuff for free.
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Post by rep on May 8, 2009 22:01:24 GMT -5
I don't know what you constitute as a job, but when you put hours in and get money at the end of the day, it's a job.
Legalizing it wouldn't really create new jobs. It would effect poor people and make them even poorer.
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Post by The Senator on May 8, 2009 22:19:38 GMT -5
Personally, I'd prefer the show topics remain short and uneventful, rather than long and cluttered with discussions that would be better off elsewhere, just my preferences...
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Jason Freeman
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Post by Jason Freeman on May 8, 2009 22:21:48 GMT -5
Personally, I'd prefer the show topics remain short and uneventful, rather than long and cluttered with discussions that would be better off elsewhere, just my preferences... Agree'd.
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Post by davey on May 9, 2009 0:04:35 GMT -5
So can anyone tell me the outcome of my match?
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