What Abolishing The Prohibition Against Cannabis Will and Will Not do For Our Country

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Abolishing the prohibition will

• Remove the stigma that substance use is the same as abuse
  
• Allow recreational use for persons 21 and older
  
• Allow for a regulatory system to limit access to Cannabis by minors
  
• Create penalties for persons supplying Cannabis to minors
  
• Allow for reasonable taxation of commercial sales of Cannabis
  
• Reduce Black Market profitability to level that is more easily dealt with
  
• Save taxpayer money by reducing the cost associated with the war on drugs by nearly 70%
  
• It will create an additional revenue stream via reasonable taxation
  
• Eliminate a faux criminal element that is causing prison overcrowding
  
• Be a huge step toward restoring our constitutional rights
  
• Reintroduce the hemp industry creating jobs and allowing our planet to recover from extreme deforestation
  

 

Abolishing prohibition will not

• Eradicate the Black Market Trade completely. It just won't be very profitable
  
• It will not "create" another substance to be abused like alcohol. Cannabis has been around since the dawn of mankind and has been used nearly as long quite successfully use does not mean abuse
  
• the people that aren't concerned with the law are already using it with no regulations in place
  
• Make it easier for kids to gain access. Proper regulation will cut down on access by minors just as with tobacco and alcohol
  
• It will not save the Nation from destruction completely because legislators will continue to make bad laws to cripple our economic presence and our ability to compete in the global markets.
  

Another point in favor of reforming our current failed drug policies would be if the prohibitions against drugs were abolished. Effectively crippling the Black Market trade industry would be and in its place, we implement regulation, taxation, education a better, and more realistic and honest substance abuse/recovery health services. This action would serve to eliminate a faux criminal element and help to reduce over crowding in prisons of "Non-violent" offenders. The Netherlands is closing eights (8) prisons because their laws do not seek to create a faux criminal element that serves to keep the "prison for profit" corporations viable! Yes, let us put the citizens of our country back in charge and maybe we can eliminate the prison for profit system and save billions more of our tax revenue which could go toward building schools and educational services. I almost forgot my favorite point of this scenario! The lying idiots in the DEA will no longer be needed as the drug problem will be minimal and easily controlled via local law enforcement officers.

There will always be individuals unable to control themselves when engaging in activities involving mind-altering substances. This will not be anything new, it is happening now but opponents of prohibition repeal/abolishment would have you believe that removing the restrictions against drugs will be like handing them to kids directly. You cannot regulate the morals of citizens! No one persons' moral standard is more important than another's'! I will not tell you how to direct your morals and you will not direct mine. It really is that simple.

Part of what being a free citizen means to me is the right to choose to be different or join a group of like-minded individuals and still allowing other to do the same. The only real restriction is if my actions were to bring harm against another person. Then I have to take responsibility for my actions.

Drugs are the province of qualified Medical Personnel and should not be under the control of politicians!