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The reason why pot or ANY narcotic is illegal is because:
1. they are severely harmful to human health
2. they are addictive (both physiologically and psychologically) in relatively small doses
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Public education, folks.
Pot does not kill you, you can not OD on it, and it hasn't been shown to cause cancer, nor it is addictive anywhere near the degree of that of alcohol and tobacco, both of which are hundreds of times more dangerous and addictive than pot and half of the other illegal drugs out there.
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There are legal substances that are either harmful or addictive, but never both in such a severity.
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Booze and cigs are as comparable to herion in terms of addictiveness, and each kills hundreds of thousands a year, yet are perfectly legal.
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I don't think the government should play a huge role in the morals and ethics of people, but when it comes to the physical wellbeing of communities (remember: addiction means that drugs spread easily in communities), I support government in the banning of drugs.
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1. Public health is a state's right, it's not an issue for the federal government.
2. You can't make that arguement when there are drugs out there, completely legal, that are more dangerous and addictive that many of the drugs that are illegal.
3. Drugs are hip there days, don't ya see, with all the kids getting shot up with ritalin, and all these other drugs I can't say, and way too damn many of them for me to remember their names. If they can have their white-collar drugs which cause cancer and hemorroids and this and that with their 30 second commercials where they spend 20 second telling you all the perfectly fine shit in your body that this one little pill is gonna **** up just because you wanna piss some more, or not so much, or get a little sleep, or clear up your allergies, or get a boner, lose a boner, make your boner bigger, make you fell happy, make you feel funny, make you feel hungry, make you shit, or make ya stop eating so goddamn much.
There's a pill for everything these days, so why can't I have my doobie snack?