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Originally Posted by Brujah
It's popular to assume that it's people who won't work, but that's not the case. Many people who have worked their entire life are unemployed. Not because they fell off the work horse, but a poor economy. Almost 3 million people lost their jobs in 2008. In May, the number of unemployed stands around 15 million. It's not because they don't want to work. There aren't enough jobs for 15 million people to have.
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Oh I get that aspect of it, unfortunate affect of a horrid economy sure.
Like I said though, legalize Marijuana ( probably the least damaging drug overall, and one that really should be legal, by comparison to what is legal and has same effects, tobacco and alcohol )
Now, that should eliminate this idea that the people on unemployment would be punished for a benign drug use, and through the right kind of legalization process, add taxable income to every state, and even federal.
However, if people think we should be pitying people who are unemployed but somehow have the disposable income for higher priced drugs, or ones that would severely incapacitate someone, thats semi flawed.
Is it wrong to have systems in place that try to encourage people to work? I'm not saying they will have work if they are drug free, but since most jobs do drug testing, would make sense that you stay clean to make sure if you did get in the door, you don't get disqualified for drug use.
Obviously there are no easy fixes, but at some point people need to start having real discussions, our country was built on the debates of statesmen to draft a constitution.
Out of maybe 100k bad ideas, 1 good one might emerge.