subject: The Factual Side Of Legalizing Marijuana [print this page] The Factual Side Of Legalizing Marijuana The Factual Side Of Legalizing Marijuana
There is a current hot debate going on in the US and Canada over whether to legalize marijuana or not.
It is common knowledge that the marijuana plant is considered to be the source of an illegal substance - the ever popular weed, pot, bud, ganja, etc. That being said...
The marijuana industry today is grossing billions of dollars a year for the growers. From the medusers who grow for themselves, to the mom-n-pop grows used to supplement their social security, to the huge grow-ops funded by gangsters and terrorists, the industry is booming - and enlarging itself daily and also marijuana seeds.
The war against marijuana is, to all intents and purposes, a lost cause. More new grow-ops are starting daily, the business is very lucrative, and the supply-n-demand is never-ending. The older, more experienced growers are going high-tech, using rental property, buying bigger houses and/or farms, and enlarging their operations to meet the needs of an ever-enlarging sellers` market.
The court dockets are full of criminal cases related to posession and/or sale, and/or growing. The prisons are running over with inmates incarcerated for non-violent crimes - with marijuana dealers/growers being by far the highest percentage of the prison population.
Millions of tax dollars are escaping from the government`s treasuries because the government refuses to decriminalize/legalize, and tax, marijuana.
Add to this the booming population of marijuana smokers, and all this rather seems like an exercise in futility by the law-enforcement people.
Should growing and using and selling marijuana become legal, our tax bases would increase greatly, in nearly every nation on the planet. The government could put these additional resources to good use - hiring more officers to protect the people from robbers/rapists/murderers would be a good start.
The FBI and DEA, Interpol, etc., could concentrate on the shutting down of a much greater number of threats - the heroin, ecstacy, cocaine, and methamphetamine trade, which is also booming.
Our prisons could be used to house the worst offenders - the rapists and pedophiles and murderers who are out on the streets, while the marijuana sellers are incarcerated for years longer on a less-evil conviction. Money could be saved and utilized to take the real criminals off the streets.
Our medical patients could legally bring themselves relief and save the government thousands of thousands of dollars, in the same stroke.
Our youngsters could be taught to use marijuana responsibly.
In other words, its time to rethink this entire situation...our governments need to think again about where we as a people are, in this 21st century, and what we have become.
