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Yup, Prop 19 was rejected. Looked for it in the BBC coverage of your elections and it was something like 57 percent voting no and 43 percent voting yes.
...Which admittedly is a far better result than I'd expect over here if we had a referendum on any drug law...
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And legalising it will prevent this? Cigarettes are perfectly legal but there is still a black market trade in them, cheaper forgein brands etc which are more dangerous (though I assume pot dealers are hardly big on health and safety as it is anyway). Same with alcohol. Making it legally available won't stop the market. Equally if, has been mentioned, there will be more checks in place to stop minors from getting the drugs in shops etc isn't that going to fuel a black market rather than stop it? (from a minors perspective at any rate). It might well make the market smaller but I don't think it is wise to claim that it will bring an end to it.
Besides the gangs will simply move onto other drugs, perhaps just place more emphasis on flogging some of the harder drugs. Though that is a pretty weak arguement, keep something illegal to stop more illegal stuff happening is flawed at best, I'm just speculating on what might happen rather than using it as a point in my case.
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Cigarette smoking is hugely common, to just ban it overnight would be impossible without severe reprecussions no matter how much the government wanted to ban it.
Severe repercussions like a black market starting up and millions of pounds worth of profits going into the hands of criminal gangs?
Oh, wait.
And legalising it will prevent this? Cigarettes are perfectly legal but there is still a black market trade in them, cheaper forgein brands etc which are more dangerous (though I assume pot dealers are hardly big on health and safety as it is anyway). Same with alcohol. Making it legally available won't stop the market. Equally if, has been mentioned, there will be more checks in place to stop minors from getting the drugs in shops etc isn't that going to fuel a black market rather than stop it? (from a minors perspective at any rate). It might well make the market smaller but I don't think it is wise to claim that it will bring an end to it.
Besides the gangs will simply move onto other drugs, perhaps just place more emphasis on flogging some of the harder drugs. Though that is a pretty weak arguement, keep something illegal to stop more illegal stuff happening is flawed at best, I'm just speculating on what might happen rather than using it as a point in my case.
And how many people do you know who regularly buy counterfeit/illegal cigarettes? I'm assuming it's not many.
For most people who support it drug legalisation is more pragmatic than anything. The point is that the bans in place currently don't work and legalisation would act as a harm reduction strategy.
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I'll make it simple. And this doens't have anything to do with legalizing it or not.
Here is what meth and pot will do to you.
A prosecutor of 19 years also said that "Prosecutor 19 years.....it is your life. I have seen more than a thousand who had their lives ruined."
sorry but that is wrong, that is only meth, see meth literally eats you from the inside out from all the chemicals in it, pot only kills brain cells and gives you that high feeling that so many of us love
I'm very glad Prop 19 didn't pass. Prop 19 wasn't going to help anyone - it limited pot smokers and growers far too much. Everyone I know smokes and/or grows it, and they all voted against it. It's fine the way it is now, allowing medical marijuana, IMO.
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