Legalization? Don’t Go There (4-20 edition)

New User Ned Nate Flanders wants you to light up. How preciously timely of him. Go back to where you came from buddy.

It’s 4-20 and I expect the stoners will be out in force, once they wake up this afternoon.  Well, it’s reality check time.

There is too much to lose by legalizing marijuana, so just don’t go there.  Where to begin?  

LEGALIZING marijuana will force money launderers to find honest work.

LEGALIZATION will break up crime syndicates.

LEGALIZATION will drastically reduce violence. Killings, maimings, mayhem, shootings, stabbings. It will end all that violent crime the State and Federal Governments generate for citizens to have a piece of the U.S. Government’s statutorily mandated super profitable crime monopoly. This.Will.Just.END!

LEGALIZATION will seriously dent police corruption and abuse of civil rights.

LEGALIZATION will turn unlicensed farmers who are engaged in crimes of economic advancement, into plain ole’ tax-paying entrepreneurs. Do you really want that?

— you want more?  

LEGALIZATION will save billion$ (TRILLION$$ even) in prison building and by recapturing all those wasted and completely unnecessary judicial and law enforcement resources we spend weeding America.  Overnight, we will be FORCED to spend billions of dollars for public protection that stops violent crime and real criminals, we be subjected to unclogged courts handling genuine disputes in need of serious attention.  We’ll be forced to witness full frontal break-outs of societal prosperity as we return non-violent merchants to an expanding economy. We spend billion$ of our income taxeS to keep non-threatening stoners, and their farmers, in prison.  Next thing you know, these non-threatening criminals (or neighbors as we frequently call them) will be paying taxes instead of taking them, they’ll be outvoting us at PTA meetings and eating shitloads of Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey. The Horror!

LEGALIZATION will reunite families, preserve family values, protect two-parent homes. Kids will visit with their dads at night while playing catch instead of between a glass partition on bring-your-kid-to-the-slammer-day.

LEGALIZATION will end the obscene military practice of using poisonous and deadly carcinogenic chemicals on pristine Central and South American farmland. The U.S. is successfully destroying otherwise healthy, productive soils, while generating contempt for our arrogant drug policies as we punish foreign farmers for to satiate our domestic hysteria over substance use.

LEGALIZATION will force our political leaders to be honest and brave and admit they’ve been fucking-the-dog for a generation by treating a health and education issue as a war on Americans who use substances.  Our current substance abuse policies are a demonstrated menace to public health.  Our current substance abuse polices are counter productive and have been overwhelmingly successful is boosting crime, corrupting law enforcement and stunting our economy. Why would we ever want to change that?

LEGALIZATION?  You Have Got To Be Kidding Me!

I could go on and on, but the fact is, legalizing otherwise market driven unlicensed agriculture WILL END LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.

We can’t handle the public health benefits.

We can’t handle the Trillion$$ is savings and/or expansion of our economy.

We can’t handle turning our backs on being world-class hypocrites.  

We would be unrecognizable. Is that the kind of change you really want?  

Happy 4-20. Now pick up your bong, don’t bother voting vote, don’t bitch, don’t become active in politics, don’t demand accountability from our elected officials and, for the love of all that is holy, keep on giving aid and comfort to the narrowest and most spineless leaders; the ones who promise to continue a never-ending & always expanding war on substance users, no matter what the costs in coin and blood. You know it’s what’s truly best for you and all of us.  

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About Caoimhin Laochdha

Central Vermont life-long civil liberties activist. I offset my carbon footprint by growing my own energy and riding my bicycle at least 8 months of the year. Every election cycle, since Gerald Ford's social promotion to the Oval Office, I've volunteered for at least one Democratic presidential campaign that ultimately finished in second (or lower) place.