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Re:Americans overwhelmingly say marijuana should be legal by ALittleLight on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:30PM (#26897618)
The biggest change I noticed with respect to legalization is that it used to be the case that you couldn't walk around the streets of downtown Seattle without being offered weed by street vendors, and sometimes other drugs. After legalization and marijuana stores the street vendors (at least those I encountered) basically disappeared.
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Re:Americans overwhelmingly say marijuana should be legal by chenzhekl on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:36PM (#26897682)
That is not a good reason I think. It sounds like we should legalize something because we already have no control of it.
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Re:Americans overwhelmingly say marijuana should be legal by ALittleLight on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:47PM (#26897774)
If you can't effectively prohibit something you probably shouldn't try. Otherwise you're wasting resources and eroding goodwill towards law enforcement which will be involved in fighting something that people really want to do.
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Re:Americans overwhelmingly say marijuana should be legal by XorNot on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:49PM (#26897787)
It implies that it would be difficult for legalization to make the situation worse if you already have no control of it. And as noted: legalization improved the situation substantially.
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