On Tuesday, a contingent of California moms outlined the parental case for legalizing marijuana. During a press conference early in the day and a later conference call with reporters outside of California, the marijuana moms argued that it is in every child’s best interest for California to legalize the very same drug that schools and parents have religiously dogged since before the creation of first lady Nancy Reagan’s “Drug Abuse Resistance Education” program in the 1980s.These people are naive if they think legalizing marijuana is going to make California a better place for their children and grandchildren. And if they think millions of new dollars are suddenly going to flow into California coffers, they're just plain stupid. People who have been selling dope illegally all these years are not suddenly going to run out and get a license and start paying taxes. Just as gun control doesn't stop crooks of having guns, taxing dope will not cause bad people to suddenly become compliant with the law.
“It might be counterintuitive,” said Hanna Dershowitz, an attorney and mother of two, ages seven and five. “I have the conversation [with my kids] every day about how much sugar is appropriate,” she said. “The right thing is to have a reasonable conversation in the context of controlled, regulated marijuana.”
A member of the Women’s Marijuana Party, Dershowitz was one of several mothers who said during a conference call with reporters that the state’s punitive reactions to drug possession are not only drastic, but also anti-parent and anti-family.
“I am the mother of two sons, both are in their 30s, but once a mom, you’re always advocating for your children and your children’s children,” said Gretchen Burns Bergman, a substance abuse counselor who helps families overcome addiction. In 1990, Bergman’s oldest son was arrested for marijuana possession. That charge, she wrote on the Huffington Post, “led to a decade of cycling in and out of the prison system for non-violent, low-level drug possession charges.”
If anything the cartels that control most of the pot supply will simply up their illegal shipments into California to meet the demand from idiots who suddenly feel free to smoke dope, even if it's still illegal under Federal law.
These moms ought to have their kids taken away.
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What most people don't understand is the criminals who use and sell drugs are also responsible for a vast majority of the robberies, burglaries, assaults and many other crimes which cannot be classified as "victimless". Those crimes will not go away just because drugs can be purchased legally... drug addicts must still have money to purchase drugs whether they are legal or not!
The question is really whether or not criminal drug dealers will be able to have much of a customer base if pot sales are legalized... they might still try evading taxes, sure, but much of their customer base is likely to go elsewhere. After all, we have legalized alcohol, and we don't exactly have rum runners all over the place anymore; people on balance prefer to do business with a reputable establishment. Granted, there will always be the exceptions, but it's not like we can't do the same thing to unlicensed pot dealers that we do to, say, moonshiners... in fact, we're already doing it.
When California voters were first duped into allowing marijuana for "medicinal" use, the proponents used the cancer-card, saying their opponents were cruel to deny patients some relief of their symptoms.
Now I see 20 year olds who are using medicinal marijuana for everything from insomnia, to back pain, to stress. These are 20 year olds; how bad can their back pain be?? They're just a bunch of pot-heads. And they act like pot-heads, frying their brain cells.
And the same mothers for legalizing pot demonize sugar, cigarettes, saturated fats....yawn.
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