Re:U.S. To End Policy That Let Legal Pot Flourish
by creaghpatr on Thursday January 04, 2018 @11:29AM
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The referenced violence in the parent comment is related to the trafficking of rather than the usage of pot, I believe.
Re:U.S. To End Policy That Let Legal Pot Flourish
by dmix on Thursday January 04, 2018 @12:03PM
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You can debate the likelihood of alcohol or marijuana's influence on people to commit crimes all you like - but at the end of the day it's not a useful argument:
a) people were still getting both alcohol and marijuana under prohibition, prohibition does not work, so whether or not it makes people more violent doesn't really matter. Especially for the demographics who typically commit crimes are usually the people who have the greatest access to black market products.
b) the vast majority of the violence directly related to the drug comes from trafficking, which is ultimately a product of prohibition, not drug use
There's not much of a debate here if both a) and b) can't be meaningfully influence by federal policy.
This is not a great argument. I'd say pot smokers aren't violent people because they are everyone as in they are average people not drug addicts, which is mostly true (in my dataless opinion). Most people don't causally or recreationally use heroin, but like alcohol, a large portion of average people do enjoy regular MJ use.