[ SECRET POST #2305 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2305 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Team Starkid]


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[Denise Donovan, Regina Spektor]


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[A Very Potter Musical]


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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 016 secrets from Secret Submission Post #329.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Weed legalization

[cassandraoftroy]

As someone who's never tried it and has no desire to do so -- yea. There's no actual good reason for it to be illegal when alcohol and cigarettes are legal, and legalizing it allows you to regulate it and let people grow it inside the country, meaning buyers are much less likely to be funding the cartels.

Re: Weed legalization

[elaminator]

+1

Re: Weed legalization

[(Anonymous)]

"Because these bad things are legal!" is never a good argument to make some other bad thing legal, though. If they could have successfully kept alcohol and cigarettes illegal, they would have. :/

Re: Weed legalization

[cassandraoftroy]

"Applying consistent standards" isn't a good reason? They couldn't keep alcohol illegal because Prohibition was a giant clusterfuck, and I'm not aware of any attempt to ban cigarettes.

In any case, I provided plenty of OTHER reasons. Are they acceptable?

Re: Weed legalization

[(Anonymous)]

No, and not really.

Re: Weed legalization

[cassandraoftroy]

It's better to allow a black market to persist that feeds and funds organized crime syndicates responsible for the murder of countless innocent people, than it is to legalize, regulate, and tax a substance that isn't actually all that dangerous? Fascinating.

Re: Weed legalization

[(Anonymous)]

Alcohol should be legal, though. Prohibition didn't get repealed because of the difficulties of enforcement in a purely logistic sense - it got repealed because people liked drinking, even people who claimed to be dries. It got repealed, in other words, because alcohol is something that people really like, and have liked for pretty much the entirety of human history; something that's been shown to have health benefits. It's abused by some, yes, but that's not in itself an argument for banning it - we should help people who are abuse alcohol and we should discourage it and have a healthy drinking culture, but the very fact that a healthy drinking culture is something that we can conceive of goes to show that alcohol isn't inherent;y unhealthy and shouldn't be banned. There are enormous problems with alcohol consumption in this country - but if it's not bad in itself, it's something that we should try to reform, not something that we should try to ban.

Wets forever!

(and even if you think that alcohol should be illegal - the fact that prohibition proved impossible and harmful in the case of alcohol should give you pause, and the fact that weed is less harmful than alcohol means that it may be the case that alcohol should be banned and weed shouldn't)