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In reply to the discussion: When do you think marijuana will be legalized in the United States? [View all]Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)12. Never, Jim Crow won't allow it.
How would our economy ever function without slave labor and people working for slave wages? Gee, Mr Richie Rich might have to put off buying his second yacht and might have to never get that 20th house. And what would he do without a fleet of cars? Seriously, pot is just one of the many tools that they use to keep people in check. If they legalize pot they might as well stop putting other non-violent offenders in jail as well. Then what? There goes another useful tool of oppression.
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why do the polls show user names now? doesn't that defeat the purpose of a poll?
Liberal_in_LA
Apr 2012
#3
Will nicely increase the wankery on polls posted in GD, too, I suppose. (nt)
Posteritatis
Apr 2012
#17
I voted 10 years. Though I think 'decriminalization of small amounts' is a better way to put it
RZM
Apr 2012
#4
Or, to rephrase that, when it becomes more profitable for big pharma to have it legal
Electric Monk
Apr 2012
#18
As soon as they can figure out how to turn it over to corporations exclusively.
TransitJohn
Apr 2012
#16
When I lived in Orange County, CA in the early 80s, possession was a $25 ticket.
Luminous Animal
Apr 2012
#31
Other. As soon as big pharma figures out how they can control the profit from it.
Arkansas Granny
Apr 2012
#40