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I don’t know where that’s from sorry. But if you put it that way, EVERYTHING is a point of view.</p>
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<p>What about it?</p>
<p>Also, it’s from Star Wars, right?</p>
<p>Hahahaha ellio.</p>
<p>And yes, it’s from Star Wars :]</p>
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Gah, I hate to be attacking mulberrypie’s comments. (Please don’t take offense), but here’s another comment I see a lot that I don’t agree with at all. Yes, marijuana could be capitalized on. You could legalize it, then tax resulting in profit. However, this could be bypassed so easily. Foreign industries that sell marijuana would thrive on the American market and so would homegrowers. If you legalize marijuana, it would allow homegrowers to thrive which feeds the black market, which is obviously illegal. So, it might not necessarily decrease marijuana-related crimes as previously claimed.</p>
<p>Against.
It doesn’t deter crime. You have the possibility of executing an innocent person (that’s an irreversible sentence). It costs more money to execute someone than to keep them in prison for life.</p>
<p>And yes, marijuana should be decriminalized. Not only would we save money for this crock pot war on drugs, the government would make money on it. Sorry meadow, the pros outweigh the cons. I do not like that people do pot, alcohol, smoke, etc (and I do none of these) but if they want to, and they are legal adults within their own homes or with designated drivers, we have no right to tell people what they can and cannot do if they are not harming others.</p>
<p>As someone who has lived with pot heads her whole lives (parents, friends, other family), I can tell you that MOST people do not grow their own pot. Most people do not have time. People can also grow their own tobacco and produce their own alcohol, but do they to any significant degree? Nope. When given the choice, people will buy something rather than make it 95% of the time.</p>
<p>Don’t worry, I’m not taking any offense at all. You know a lot more about this stuff than I do haha (no sarcasm). The “black market” of marijuana is already huge right now… but even with taxed marijuana, it would still be cheaper than smuggling it no?</p>
<p>although - black market prices are highly inflated compared to … white market prices (idk go with it), so it becomes a question of price v. quality rather than “ill get my pot from mafiosos instead of the gov’t”</p>
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<p>Why not? </p>
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<p>It does, but if there was a way to reduce the expenses, would that change your opinion?</p>
<p>I would agree with making alcohol (and tobacco) illegal. Except that it’s been tried before and it was a colossal failure. Whether the prohibition on marijuana has been a failure is debatable.</p>
<p>I don’t think the marijuana black market could get much bigger. I mean, I’m sure 90+% of college kids have smoked weed, and a decent percentage do it often. One of my good friends at college is a dealer and makes mad profits. And that’s just college.</p>
<p>The black market of marijuana after legalized probably wouldn’t change that much, but now the government would be making money off of it.</p>
<p>And I, like mulberry, don’t understand why alcohol is legalized and marijuana isn’t.</p>
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<p>People committing capital offenses generally don’t weigh the consequences of being caught, at least not to the extent that increasing the punishment from life in prison would be some type of tipping point.</p>
<p>a certain amount of alcoholic beverage is healthy (at least so I’ve heard with wine).
Cigarettes seem worse and (idk I’ve never had alcohol) are more addictive.</p>
<p>Personally, I would think that their acknowledgement that they were going to die would initiate a greater fear than to acknowledge that they would be able to live off of tax dollars for the rest of their lives.</p>
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<p>Murders rates have consistently been higher in states WITH the death penalty then those without. If someone’s going to kill someone, they’re not going to go “Gee, maybe I shouldn’t do this because I might die.” </p>
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<p>No.</p>
<p>What proportion of crimes are actually executed upon after careful cost-benefit analysis?</p>
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<p>Murders generally fall into three categories: those who do it as a result of another crime (ie, burglary), a crime of passion, or a sociopathic mass murderer. None of those people care about the punishment for their crimes.</p>
<p>You don’t think that the fact that they would survive after their actions would further temp them?</p>
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<p>Is your statement made in consideration to the fact that most states with the death penalty are larger, (Ex: California and Texas) so would therefore have more people, increasing the amount of murders?</p>
<p>^^Correct.</p>
<p>My main qualm, had I already said, is that innocent people have unnecessarily died, and will continue to, as long as there is the death penalty.</p>