The "lives ruined" are the fault of the possesors of those lives (and that weed). They broke the law and got CAUGHT! Yet, you're blaiming the COPS, for doing their job?
Lost in all this blubbering is the simple fact that legalizing weed isn’t going to help California one bit.
California’s had a great economy before, and it didn’t have to legalize weed (or any other recreational drugs) to do it. Then again, with some of the goofball policies in that state, the politicians there are probably already smoking ganga.
Your logic is GROTESQUE.
The lives ruined by the drug war is NOT the fault of the drug offenders, but rather the government. EVERYONE has the right to put what they want into their own bodies, period. The government does not have a right to rob people of their civil liberties and freedom.
Your argument is that if a law exists, and if someone breaks it and is punished, it is the persons fault who breaks the law. But this reasoning is fallacious because not all laws are just.
It would be like claiming that slaves who run away from their masters, and thus broke the law, were at fault if they got punished. You're ignoring the fact that slavery itself is unjust, just as you are ignoring the fact that drug laws are inherently unjust and irrational.
I'm not blaming the cops. I'm blaming the politicians. The lawmakers.
Legalizing marijuana will help California and it will help the United States in general. It will save money. Period.
Marijuana has had a decent economy in the past with Marijuana outlawed, but if marijuana were legal at that time it would have been even better. And right now neither California or the United states can afford throwing people in prison over plants.
