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comment by BLOB_CASTLE
BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4147 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mary Jane, for or against, you pay just the same

I started watching the Ken Burns documentary Prohibition and think a point he brought up can be applied to the legalization of marijuana.

He said that those who wanted to drink were up in arms that those who wanted prohibition were trying to get legislation to determine what they could and could not do. Sure, that's essentially the mentality behind any law, but this one was more personal because it was about their own bodies. They figured, if they could drink without harming anyone else (which we all know wasn't the case) then who had the right to tell them they couldn't drink. Well, alcohol is legal. Under the same thinking, I believe marijuana (and all drugs really) should be legal. It makes more sense to me to either have them all be legal or illegal. Picking and choosing shows too much transparency as to who's feeding our official's wallets.