Legalize drugs to stop violence

• Jeffrey Miron: Thousands have been killed in Mexico's ongoing drug war
• He says U.S. drug policy leads to corruption of politicians and law enforcement
• Miron: Legalizing drugs is the best way to reduce drug violence
• He says drugs should be controlled through regulation and taxation

Zigurd said:

I got in a huge argument over this with basically all my religious friends (not that it matters that much). They all used illogical arguments. I hope this get's done someday.

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Ryeland said:

Being a religious person I see no problem with legalizing marijuana or many other drugs, we're not all illogical. Lets face it, the drug is now omnipresent and socially accepted.

The war on drugs has been an abysmal failure. A 100% failure. Economics is against the war on drugs. It should be a war on harmful drug use. The most powerful weapon against cartels is economics and public perception.

The government has the capacity to make it economically infeasible to be a cartel by marketing themselves as the only safe and affordable supply of recreational drugs.

Take a look at what is happening in Mexico right now, the cartels are creating giant blood baths.

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Ryeland said:

Being a religious person I see no problem with legalizing marijuana or many other drugs, we're not all illogical. Lets face it, the drug is now omnipresent and socially accepted.

The war on drugs has been an abysmal failure. A 100% failure. Economics is against the war on drugs. It should be a war on harmful drug use. The most powerful weapon against cartels is economics and public perception.

The government has the capacity to make it economically infeasible to be a cartel by marketing themselves as the only safe and affordable supply of recreational drugs.

Take a look at what is happening in Mexico right now, the cartels are creating giant blood baths.

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tim290280 said:

Government revenue from drugs.

Next there would be an aging hippy as Minister for Drugs giving press conferences wacked out of his mind telling people how the govt is like a bowl with nothing in it with a sunray shining off the rim dazling you.

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pegasus said:

well obama just said in his town hall meeting that he's not in favour of legalizing weed..

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Tech said:

what did you honestly expect?

Change?

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pegasus said:

Hope, change we can believe in, yeah right. The funniest part of it all is that the tax cuts he was promising for 95% of the population are only going to be there for 2 years, and after that it goes back to business as usual

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The administration had tied the revenue raised from cap-and-trade to the Making-Work-Pay tax credit for families – both of which have been brought up as possibilities to be scrapped from the Senate and House budget resolution.

President Obama ensured his middle class tax cut is locked in place for the next two years as a part of the stimulus package he signed into law last month, but OMB Director Peter Orszag told reporters today that the White House will have to use those two years to figure out how to keep that tax cut in place for middle class families beyond 2010.

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