Why Parents Should Support Legalizing Marijuana

[TalkingDog]

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/148278/why_parents_should_support_legalizing_pot/


While we don’t want our kids to try marijuana, if they do later on it can lead to very harsh consequences if they are caught, even for actions that are not harmful to others. And this next part is really scary: when a person is convicted of a marijuana offense, he or she is precluded from receiving federal student loans, will forever have a drug record that diminishes job prospects, and is precluded from many other benefits, not to mention being arrested, possibly serving time, and other harsh and harrowing outcomes. We don’t prevent even violent criminals from getting student loans. Or underage drinkers, for that matter. I don’t want people to have their lives derailed for a youthful indiscretion. Do you?




Well, if we want to have a "purity test" that somehow keeps the lower classes out of higher education while allowing the upper classes to buy their way out of charges......I'm not sure legalization would be the best thing.

[lunatica]

1. Another reason is the tax revenue that will pay for your kids' schools

And for police and firefighting services as well as the upkeep of the state infrastructure. All are beneficial to children

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Everyone should support it, because continued prohibition is insane.

I've seen lives completely destroyed by alcohol and nicotine, yet I don't think those substances should be illegal for adults.

"For the children" is another last-gasp desperate argument of what was an intellectually bankrupt idea to begin with.

[Froward69]

3. That "purity test"

is abhorrent. MY roommate in college got busted with a Bong and less than an 1/8. I Also got the ticket because I did turn him in as I was his Roommate.

His parents bought him out of trouble, he is now an engineer for a Defense contractor. Me? I paid a $116 fine, then I had to give up my dreams of becoming a Pilot. Later had to turn to self employment just to have a Job that could support a family.

And I was not even on the same floor of the fraternity house when he got busted. the real Irony is that it was HE that told me to be on the Down low As the police were using other previously busted students to bust parties. BTW that also part of how my roommate got out of trouble, he ratted others out. I got no such option.