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Is marijuana the subject of the newest prohibition?

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Me and my girls were talking the other night and the conversation soon turned to marijuana and the act of it being decriminalized in Canada. We had all different views on it, so we kind of bantered back and forth on the subject. Eventually we all settled on one key point. What we COULD agree on was that in the grand scheme of the drug spectrum, it really is less harmful than most drugs, especially our most favourite legal drug--alcohol. The last time alcohol was illegal, there were scads of bootleggers making money off of bath-tub made, potent, illegal hooch. There can't be any control or regulation over something that no one is supposed to have in the first place! Along with the very obvious health risk, people were engaging in gangland activities that wound up with lots of people dead...or really really "effed" up.

So, is marijuana the subject of the newest prohibition? Would it free up much of the courts time and public monies that can be used in other places if we stopped prosecuting every two-bit pot dealer that's operating out of their home? Are they really making enough money that we should be concerned about them? What if it was government grown/taxed/regulated like alcohol is now? I've met enough shady dealers in my life that want you to come to their home to sell to you that I can safely say that it would increase public safety to put those dealers out of business by using more cost-effective and productive ways. What do you think??