WHY NOT LEGALIZE POT, AMONG OTHER THINGS?

All of us in California would certainly agree that, if you’re going to smoke pot, you’re going to do it whether it’s legal or not. When you criminalize it, nothing changes except that the smugglers make more money and you have to hire more cops. Just by legalizing marijuana, we might be able to lay off 40% or 50% of our cops and balance the state budget. It would certainly put a big dent in the need for drug wars, wouldn’t it?

Okay, maybe it would NOT stop drug wars, but if we legalized pot, coke, heroin and meth, that would certainly put an end to drug wars once and for all and we might even be able to open the borders a littler wider. It should be obvious to anyone and everyone that we have really painted a tough picture for ourselves by outlawing certain things, like drugs. We all know that, back in the old days when drugs were legal there was no crime and it only took one sheriff to run a town because everyone was on a trip.

There’s a certain excitement the bad guys get… a unique high… when they manage to successfully smuggle 10 tons of pot, 100 grams of coke and a few ounces of heroin into the country. The guys who break into empty houses, manufacture a huge kettle of meth and peddle their wares on the street in front of the police station really, really get a high. We could end all of that just by turning back the clock and legalizing all drugs.

For that matter, why is it illegal to buy some drugs in the United States when it’s legal in Mexico or Canada? Why do I have to pay such high prices for legal drugs in the U.S. that have to be prescribed for me to get them, when I can get them over the counter in Canada? Isn’t it time we dropped the charade and simply legalized everything?

Stop and think about it. Our prisons are full of people who are there only because we decided to make something illegal. What a waste of space and money. I truly think that it should be okay to shoot your neighbor dead if he allows his dog to piss on your lawn. The idiot who decided that I should go to jail for manslaughter in such a case simply made us pay through the nose for cops, judges and jails.

Legalize marijuana and loosen up the state. Let’s get rid of all of this unnecessary stress in our lives by getting rid of the damned laws.