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I think the best place to fight the war on drugs is inside the home/family. Legalize (and therefore de-mystify) pot. Since everyone can pretty much grow skunkweed in the basement, there is no way to regulate it - just legalize it, step aside and let it take its own course. The best way to stop drug money from exiting the country is to let folks grow it locally. The Central and South American pot trade would dry up overnight.
This is just fucking nuts. Where's the threat to society? Another sad element not discussed in this snippet is that there's a decent chance that any given pot peddler grows the stuff themselves and, therefore, offer no chance to law enforcement to "work their way up the ladder" and offer the (so-called) dealer a chance at a reasonable plea bargin in exchange for ratting out his supplier. The pot distribution channels are flattening out - there are fewer and fewer "Mr. Bigs" behind the universe of dealers.
And the real irony is that its not "the people" who are demanding this. Those convicted of crimes for which the people demand long sentences are not given long sentences and are let back on the streets to continue raping and pillaging.
Somebody needs to fix this crap.
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