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为什么合法化的大麻牌子感觉
星期四， 2009年4月2日
由乔· Klein | 在过去几年，我怀有一个幻想，一场前场政治运动为婴孩景气世代。 我们，在正义道路开始，前进为民权和反对战争在越南，需要发现一种适当地情操高尚的方法对生活的出口舷梯。 在这种情况下，我逐字地意味情操高尚的部分。 然后成交： 给我们药物，在某一年龄-说， 80 -之后所有药物，我们要的任何药物。 在回归，我们将给您我们的驾驶执照。 (我意味，可以您想象怎么害怕剥落， solipsistic 90年老临时工的国家在轮子之后是？) 我们将让您继续进行您的生活-，其中将是花费的支付我们的退休，无论如何-，无需必须听见我们抱怨我们的每疼痛和倒回。 我们将是太知觉繁忙的探索的修改过的状态。 我甚而有一个口号为竞选： “调整，打开，滚开”。 幻想，我假设。 但，在愤怒之下混乱经济危机，一次全国交谈安静地开始了关于我们的药物法律的荒谬。 它在国家议会进来，象纽约的，严厉的洛克菲勒药物法律上升为回顾; 在其他状态，从加利福尼亚向马萨诸塞，各种各样大麻decriminalization被立法。 并且它到达了国会地板，吉姆· Webb参议员和Arlen幽灵提出了主要监狱改革包裹，将直接地演讲药物判刑政策。 也有时代精神转移的更加顽皮的标志。 几个星期前，白宫决定演出总统会回答公众递交的问题的论坛; 92,000个人反应了-，并且大多数似乎被大麻的合法化占据心思。 关于“绿色工作和能量的二个最普遍的问题”，例如，是关于罐。 总统驳回了倾诉-适当地，我猜测-作为在网上选票充塞和遣散合法化问题与简单： “没有”。 这是起反应反射，无需试图的Barack Obama一个罕见的事例考虑创造性地，一个严肃的政策问题。 他，实际上，上传统最省力的途径： 一个意想不到的答复在大麻将发射小报火暴，牵制注意免受预算战斗和所有那些财政援救。 In fact, the default fate of any politician who publicly considers the legalization of marijuana is to be cast into the outer darkness. Such a person is assumed to be stoned all the time, unworthy of being taken seriously. Such a person would be lacerated by the assorted boozehounds and pill poppers of talk radio. The hypocrisy inherent in the American conversation about stimulants is staggering. But there are big issues here, issues of economy and simple justice, especially on the sentencing side. As Webb pointed out in a cover story in Parade magazine, the U.S. is, by far, the most “criminal” country in the world, with 5% of the world’s population and 25% of its prisoners. We spend $68 billion per year on corrections, and one-third of those being corrected are serving time for nonviolent drug crimes. We spend about $150 billion on policing and courts, and 47.5% of all arrests are marijuana-related. That is an awful lot of money, most of it nonfederal, that could be spent on better schools or infrastructure — or simply returned to the public. At the same time, there is an enormous potential windfall in the taxation of marijuana. It is estimated that pot is the largest cash crop in California, with annual revenues approaching $14 billion. A 10% pot tax would yield $1.4 billion in California alone. And that’s probably a fraction of the revenues that would be available — and of the economic impact, with thousands of new jobs in agriculture, packaging, marketing and advertising. A veritable marijuana economic-stimulus package! So why not do it? There are serious moral arguments, both secular and religious. There are those who believe — with some good reason — that the accretion of legalized vices is debilitating, that we are a less virtuous society since gambling spilled out from Las Vegas to “riverboats” and state lotteries across the country. There is a medical argument, though not a very convincing one: alcohol is more dangerous in a variety of ways, including the tendency of some drunks to get violent. One could argue that the abuse of McDonald’s has a greater potential health-care cost than the abuse of marijuana. (Although it’s true that with legalization, those two might not be unrelated.) Obviously, marijuana can be abused. But the costs of criminalization have proved to be enormous, perhaps unsustainable. Would legalization be any worse? In any case, the drug-reform discussion comes just at the right moment. We boomers are getting older every day. You’re not going to want us on the highways. Make us your best offer. Have Your Say: Why Legalizing Cannabis Makes Sense Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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