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Headphoneus Supremus
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It potentially keeps the casual smokers away from the shady drug dealers, tho.
If people happen to decide that spending money on drugs is a better use of their time and money instead of something else you really have to question their decision making from that point on. Of course that doesn't apply to people who use it for medical purposes but otherwise your money is better spent elsewhere. I would even say that you're better off paying for a prostitute instead. Impulse buy something else for instant gratification instead.
I don't see a reason to try to protect people who make these kind of decisions voluntarily in the first place.
Having a government impose regulations on marijuana doesn't guarantee a decrease in black market activity for it because if the price is placed above where the equilibrium price was before it was legal, there's no reason for people to buy from the government. There's also a good chance drug dealers will just start spicing up their marijuana to attract people.
For the people who do buy weed regulated by the government, I guess their decisions are taxed for something more useful (for a better cause is a questionable statement)
The other thing we do get to see is what prolonged usage of marijuana does since our sample size is orders of magnitude larger than before so everybody becomes a guinea pig for correlational studies, and more laboratory studies are allowed due to the legal nature of marijuana.