I am Ron Paul.

[xtratabasco]

the "pot" issue is just a red-herring.

Ron Paul has hundreds of positions that could get our country back on track and living with true freedom.

and no I dont smoke pot, but the drug war is an obvious failure and we have pot dealers in prison doing 35+ years while murderers and rapists do less than 7

YouTube - Ron Paul: A New Hope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG2PUZoukfA

[muy_thaiguy]

I think it'd do the opposite. Look at Prohibition - prices were high for liquor and smuggling/bootlegging ran rampant. But when it was legalized again, the bootlegging racket basically fell apart.

It's because not only does price go down due to increased supply (meaning those criminals would make much, much less money), but also because people would rather get it from drug stores than sketchy drug dealers. The Marijuana business would be picked up by corporations (or the government) and the dealers couldn't compete.

But anyway, I've kinda said what I've meant to say and I feel my opinion is well represented. I'll let you have the last word on the matter and from then, we can agree to disagree.

Then I guess I'll have to agree with the last part. Also, Prohibition lasted for only a few years, and the Alcohol factories were still up and running (though making soda instead), so of course people would automatically go back to the breweries. But marijuanna, not quite the same thing.

[Titanic]

Aye, too much is a bad thing, but that goes for anything.

But there are barely, if any benefeits from Marijuanna,

well hemp can make rope, paper, walls instead of lumber, replace plastics, cooking oil and foods

http://www.hempusa.org

And benefits from using marijuana as a drug?