Sure, but why stop there???? Why stop at just pot? How about PCP, Herion, LSD, methaqualone, peyote, meth, cocaine, crack, and ice?
Yeah, that's the ticket. Legalize everything! Tax it all! Who cares if the population is stoned out of it's gourd, having hallucinations and flashbacks, killing people as they react to the hallucinations and LSD flashbacks. We'll all save on gas, because of all those stoners out on the road will make a wreck during a NASCAR race look like playing with Matchbox™ cars. Yeah, and all those taxes can go to more economic recovery, since people will be zoned out so much that they'll all be on disability, unable to work because their brains are more mush than even the 'aliens' on the Hulu commercials ever dreamed of! And, just think of all the business the children's hospitals will have, drying out infants left and right as they go through withdrawal after being born from stoned out mothers, let alone repairs the birth defects that the junk they can now get legally can cause. And,....
Absurd? Out in left field? Perhaps, but it illustrates my point (provided you are open minded enough to have read this far...which I doubt many will do!).
I am a registered pharmacist. I have FORGOTTEN more about drugs than most of you know. There is no such thing as a "safe' or 'harmless' drug. Pot or anything else in that category are not fun little toys to get high with. They are listed as Schedule I drugs, illegal to possess outside of a clinical trial or, in the case of pot, legalized medical use (which, if looked at from a legitimate, agenda-free examination, is not as big as the press portrays). They are 'controlled substances' for a reason. They are not as harmless as NORML and others try to portray it.
You have to draw the line somewhere. Marijuana has limited use as an appetite stimulant (its' best use), anti-nausea drug (not that great), and (some claim) pain control, although the clinical trials I've seen aren't that great for the last one.
