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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's everywhere and it's gross. A sign of people who can't cope with life. I would vote for anyone who can criminality again. Noyjail, but a fine. [/quote]

Fines are pointless. you are right. These folks can't cope with life. They won't magically care about paying a fine. [/quote]

Different poster than you responded to.  I agree with them, though, that marijuana should be illegal, but that doesn’t have to involve prison.  If fines don’t work, what about:
community service? 
mandated treatment?
house arrest with drug testing?

This is a complicated, difficult issue without a quick fix, but legalizing it so that we don’t even try to address the problem of marijuana usage certainly isn’t going to help any, either.  And I consider marijuana to be a problem for society in two major ways:

1.  As a psychotropic drug it impairs driving.  Even though driving while impaired is illegal, with neither a legal standard defining what constitutes a level to cause impairment, nor a way to quantifiably measure the amount of marijuana that might be present to determine whether it meets the nonexistent standard, the law seems unenforceable.

2.  As I mentioned in an earlier post, secondhand exposure is extremely dangerous for developing brains.  We know it can cause problems with both mental health and cognitive functioning, and there really hasn’t been the time to determine all the impacts of long-term exposure to these more intense strains of cannabis.  Not only is society losing untold amounts of their unrealized potential, but we are creating problems that we will have to solve in the future - (increased need for welfare, mental health facilities, prisons, etc.). Not to mention that sheer human decency ought to be enough to motivate us to protect vulnerable children.

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