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Originally Posted by emptypepsi
Really? It's always seemed to me that the people that I've heard loudest for legalization are moron college kids who do not justice whatsoever to the good arguments of the cause.
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"Legalize it so I can buy it for less and use it more easily" isn't a very persuasive argument. You can choose from any of these better ones:
1) Federal prohibition is unconstitutional on its face.
2) Illegal drug use has increased every year since the inception of the DEA despite continued increase in money to fight the "war on drugs".
3) Prohibition causes crime via black market demand for the prohibited products.
4) Prosecuting people for drug use wastes our tax dollars by filling our jails with perpetrators of victimless 'crimes'.
5) Prohibition increases drug potency (and has brought about such lovelies as crack and ice) by creating a situtation in which suppliers are strongly motivated to minimize risk and maximize reward by introducing cheaper, more damaging chemicals.
6) Legalizing drugs would make them extremely cheap and you wouldn't have addicts robbing people for drug money (alcohol is probably the single most damaging drug there is, and you don't have souses sticking people up to buy a pint of gin).
7) Winning the "war on drugs" is categorically impossible and the "medicine" is worse than the "cure".
Forget that some already have and use it for medical reasons, we ALL need it for "medical reasons" 
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