... can't have. It's human nature. It's who we are as a people. Take alcohol for instance, its perfectly legal if you are age appropriate. Guess what? Alcohol still causes family disputes, rape, robbery, reckless driving, and murder. According to Trebach, "some opponents of legalizing marijuana believe that individuals involved in illegal buying and selling of the drug are more likely than average ... in the "War on Drugs." We currently spend billions of dollars every year to chase peaceful people who happen to like to get high. These people get locked up in prison and the taxpayers have to...

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... wrong will become of it, so might as well legal marijuana. "The aim is clear: to make pot as legal as beer."" (The Economist, Sept 26) The majority of our prison and jail population are made up of drug offenders, many of them non-violent. Therefore that makes less room to lock away the murderers and rapists of our nation. A daily ... . Everything that has to do with the drug war, held our economy back. What we need to do now is drop the whole war on drugs, and focus on crime, rape, and kidnapping crimes that are taking place in this decade. The drug war can leave its mark in history and ...

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