Me again. Puttin' the ol' billboard up:
Don't legalize it. Mostly because it messes up the human brain and poses a threat to people besides the user (it also causes cancer, but that one runs a distant third place).
There won't be significant tax revenue from the "legalize and tax" solution (just look at what happened when they tried that with any other drug).
It's impossible to overdose on weed, you say? So what?? You can't overdose on tobacco either. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE.
There, that should cover the big items most-often mentioned in these threads--
--okay, look. I'm getting a lot of angry stares from people thinking "god DAMMIT, BasketCase, shut the hell up and go away". Not happening. If it's an Off Topic thread, I'm gonna post in it. If you want me off your back, go post at the message board on reeferhead.com or whatever.
Alrighty, time to do some debating.
Same reason firearms laws are completely different all over the United States, despite the fact that we have ONE U.S. Constitution that says ONE thing about whether or not we have the right to carry firearms.
I don't actually know what that reason is--just that there is one. Maybe the law is just plain messed up. Or maybe the nation's lawmakers decided to split the country up into separate parts with different laws so that people can move to the areas with the laws they like best. If it's so important to you, move to Holland--errrr.....wait..........oh dear. Bit of a problem there.
Of course, no matter where a person moves to, they will never have EXACTLY the laws they want. Right now it's your desire to smoke weed that is getting stomped on by the guys with black boots and MP5's. In other areas it will be your right to guns, or your right to not worship a God. Somewhere or other, the law is gonna supercede one or another of your rights, and you're just gonna have to deal with that.
Or you could :suicide:
Side note for ya, Dawgphood. Bringing up the hypocrisy angle doesn't really do much for you. Here's why: because there are TWO ways to put a stop to the hypocrisy you pointed out. Either legalize both weed and alcohol, or BAN both weed and alcohol. If you present it as a hypocrisy issue, both solutions become valid, and I'm just gonna take a wild guess that you were aiming specifically for the first one.