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The reason why alcohol is the cause of more vilont deaths, traffic accidents etc is that it is legal.Yikes. Hope I'm not intruding. Anywho...
This really doesn't surprise me in the least bit. I could go downstairs with a pair of scissors and cut out at least half a dozen local newspaper articles containing similar stories. I'll admit--it takes balls to sell drugs through a drive-thru window at a Pizza Hut.
Honestly, I don't know why marijuana isn't legalized. In the US, tobacco products can be purchased at the age of 18. Alcohol can be purchased and consumed legally at the age of 21. To my understanding, alcohol accounts for more death and injury than pot does. It contributes to domestic violence, automobile accidents, and death resulting from poisoning. Tobacco products are highly addictive and are certain to cause health problems. Smoke some weed? Eat a lot of nachos as you watch re-runs of Muppet Babies. Even if weed is more hazardous to one's health than cigarettes and alcohol, it should still be up to the individual to decide if they want to risk using it.
Too many people get sent down shit creek just for smoking some pot. I have friends who have virtually no future after being caught with the stuff in their possession. Nice fellas who shouldn't have to have something so stupid follow them for the rest of their lives.
...and I didn't know Pizza Hut had a drive-thru! What a rip. I've been missing out.
Weed isn't that bad, sure it's got lots of tar in it. However it doesn't turn you into a psychopath like P or PCP will. A couple of years ago some guy killed two people and chopped one guys arm off with a samurai sword because he was high on P. The effects of PCP are well documented. IT MAKES YOU GO BATSHIT INSANE.
With weed, you just laugh a hell of a lot more, plus you get high. Also weed is considerably cheaper than heroin, P, or meth. Therefore, to borrow a word from Tedius, it is less criminiferious. As people don't have to go around robbing and stealing just to pay for their addictions.
As to why weed is illegal.
Most governments have the belief that smoking weed leads to the consumption of harder drugs, like the ones already mentioned by cerri. Also Governments can't really be seen to be allowing drug use, it gives them a bad image. Also there is this stigma sttached to people who smoke. We are all supposedly 'stoners', mostly bad people, the kind of people the normal voter would cross the street to avoid. Of course this is complete and utter bullshit, however the boring people who never smoked feel they deserve some advantage for the great sacrifice they had to make. That's probably how they see it. However I feel I'm getting a little of topic