How Much Is One Joint Worth?
Question by Brad: how much is one joint worth?
I suggest that you can buy beer and cigarettes inside the local 7-11 and crack cocaine and marijuana outside. This means for all the $ spent and effort, it simply isn’t working. It’s time to rethink US drug policy.
Look, I don’t want my minor children to have sex, and I teach them openly about rights and responsibilities, but that doesn’t mean I pretend that I don’t have sex or want you to tell me what i can or cannot do. i also enjoy Jack Daniels or for that matter VooDoo beer; but I don’t give it to my children and would harm anyone who would.
Glue, gasoline and Pam spray are all legal to buy even though you can huff them to get high while doing tremendous damage to yourself. Same is true for tobacco and alcohol. Why do we insist on having some weeds/chemicals legal to smoke/use and others not?
I do not use any illegal substances or recommend them, but I think it’s time we reconsider our national policies. We need to be pragmatic and honest. So far this prohibition thing isn’t working and there is no sign of that changing ever.
“PROTECT THE CHILDREN!” they will scream and I will say, ‘I agree!’
Just as we do with cigarettes and alcohol. If we clear out the jails of “victimless criminals” then we will have plenty of room to keep real criminals in there for much longer. And that means, people who sell or give controlled substances to kids should stay in jail until they are dead.
It’s day 14 and so far this year we’ve spent $ 2 billion dollars on the war on drugs.
http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm
Bush spent nearly 2.4 trillion on the war on drugs in 8 years; that means 1.5 years of your personal income taxes, out of the last 8, paid for this war.
http://www.druglibrary.org/think/~jnr/wodcost.htm
Half of all corrupt police officers are involved in drug offenses.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/library/factsheets/economiccons/fact_economic.cfm
The cost per day of stay in prison is $ 67.55 (see item 7 on the link)
http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/62
Marijuana as a top cash crop in the US at over $ 35 billion (2006)
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Story?id=2735017
what do you think? (before you answer, undertsand that i have never used any illegal drugs. that’s less than clinton, bush and obama.)
thank you John, and i agree. i would prefer we spend time educating to curb demand than stop the supply. if we spend, we should spend wisely.
Best answer:
Answer by Kim in Florida
about a few 100 brain cells…
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