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Originally Posted by bigluv WTF? Its better for everyone to still toke up, but the profits go to organized crime, and the taxpayers have to pay to put everyone in jail on top? What a waste.

Agreed. 65% of the Mexican Drug Cartels money comes from marijuana. That means 2 out 3 Gang-bangers carry guns and bullets paid for with a weed I could grow in my backyard.

On top of that, we spend over $65 billion at the Federal level on enforcement of arcane marijuana laws. That's before you factor in costs for courts and incarceration.

We learned with alcohol, that if you criminalize something a lot of people want, you create criminal empires. Prohibition did not work with booze, and it's still killing a lot of people with the prohibition of hemp.