~ Hylo Bates ~
Legalize Member ID: hylo
24 year old Male
http://www.freeyellow.com/members4/hylo/index.html
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~ Bio / Blurb ~
I went to college and saw the difference between what drunks did (rape, pillage, and generally make life miserable for everyone) and what stoners did (sit around and discuss things while laughing a lot). Along with research I've done (reading sources, smoking pot) these experiences just reinforced my feeling that marijuana is far less detrimental to our society than alcohol and cigarettes |
~ Reasons to Legalize ~
It doesn't hurt you. Prohibition has clogged our prisons with nonviolent people who've done nothing wrong. The reasons it was illegalized in the first place were purely political. The lumber industry--back then, its power was equivalent to the oil industry today--lobbied heavily for marijuana prohibition, because hemp is a much better and more economical source of paper products. Also, marijuana was billed as the drug that made "fine, upstanding, white women" sleep with "blacks and hispanics"; alcohol was a high society drug (no-pun intended), while marijuana was for "low-lifes" (i.e. minorities). If alcohol and cigarettes are legal, then having marijuana illegal makes a complete mockery of our law system. |