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Under that argument, child porn should be allowed, since "it's there anyways"...
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That's like saying Martin Luther King and Adolph Hitler were the same because they both wanted to 'reorganise society'. Or comparing jaywalking to genicide because they are both crimes
. It's childishly polarised generalistion and hardly constructive to the debate. Come on people!
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Let's not confuse canabis with class A drugs and perverts please?...
It was meant as a very pertenant point(you have to consider the sheer amount of people who use cannabis or who are not opposed to it. 50/50%?). My point being it's not going to make it any more widly available than it already is (and if any of you think it is'nt
extremely widespread, please remove your noggin from your colon
), in fact it'd probably take away the mysterious glamour that's attatched to it. As it stands now it's an uncontrolled mess that cost's a fortune in money and manpower that would be better used elsewhere, and would actualy MAKE money for the economy (not to mention third world crop growing countries eh?)...
I don't know for sure why it was criminalised, at a guess it may of been something to do with the depression?(wrong era?), may have been an increase (along with cocaine and opium which were also legal) in abuse due to the 'unpleasant reality' of the time?. The economy could'nt take the added strain of money passing into illicit channels or out of the country?...