Anyone up for a debate ?

Well i have always liked having debate's with other people for some reason sooo here it goes.

The topic is....Legalization Of the Ganja.

And if your against it please please please join this debate.

So here's my first start.

I think that the Legalization of Marijuana would help the goverment in many ways. Especially money and budget wise.
Say you went to the store and bought a pack of "joints" similar to how you get ciggarettes. The product costs lets say 4.25 a pack .25 of it being towards taxes. So if a store was to sell 25 packs a day thats 6.25 in just tax money. Yes that doesnt sound like much but in 2001 there were approximately 2 MILLION people behind bars. Each inmate cost's 52.90 $ a day according to google. Thats 19,308.00 $ a YEAR. So in the year of 2001 $38,616,000,000 of goverment money was used to house inmates with marijuana related charges. That does NOT include the cost's of utilities of the prison the cost to build it and each guard's salary. Tis money could go to much more important things such as hostpital's and school's.

I could continue but i wanna hear someone else's response first

p.s. i just now came up with all that haha i was brainstorming randomly.

 

you god damn hippies....get a job....get a haircut

Look like a bunch of refugees from a gorilla love-in.

first marijuana , then what heroin


hey do I sound like a redneck? pretty convincing huh ?:willy_nilly:

 

haha wow i thought you were serious at first.

 

no, you sound like someone quoting other people, i.e. a minor character in easy rider, among others

 

Somebody is looking for a punching bag.

 

your numbers don't jive, while there may be 2 million people in prison , they aren't all pot related.... check norml site for better numbers

but a large % are ... so instead of .25 tax.. make it $1.25
most stores run at 100% mark up anyway.. so they maybe charge $4 a pack.. but they paying $2... even at $10 a pack.. it would be worth it


don't count on much opposition here :sifone:

I think the federal tax if you get busted is $100 a oz. or at one time it used to be

 

damn good job nesta... the redneck in the cafe
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Oh sorry when i looked it up thats what number's it showed me.

 

nope not that bad... not sure of the %.. but there is 2 million in prison

that's over half the population of your state...

 

year ago so it's greater now

With more than 2.3 million people behind bars, the United States leads the world in both the number and percentage of residents it incarcerates, leaving far-more-populous China a distant second

A lot has to do with the 3 strikes laws...it's fucked up.. tho some deserve it

but not for weed... that's bullshit

 

Ok sorry the true number for inmate's in prison for marijuana related charges is 28,650
so that is $553,174,200 a year for cost of these inmates thats still ALOT of money.

 

http://www.mapinc.org/newsnorml/v09/n193/a11.html

:hurray: :hurray:

 

Damn, boss, scared me for a minute there!

 

yeah.. I bet they don't make the parish line

 

bluntking.. you're in kind of a fucked up place . did you know

Oklahoma Law;
Possession of any amount of marijuana is punishable by up to one year in jail for the first offense and 2 - 10 years in prison for subsequent offenses. Conditional discharge is available to first time offenders.

 

Yeah i heard that Oklahoma has some of the most harsh punishment's for Weed.


Its so ridiculous.

 

and you have a $3.50 tax per gram.. so that's $98 a oz.. so I wasn't off very far

NM;
Possession of one ounce or less of marijuana is a petty misdemeanor, punishable by up to 15 days in jail and a fine of $50 - $100 for the first offense

go west .. young man .. go west

 

Yeah as soon as im 18 I'm out of this pointless state . Never ever ever go on vacation to Oklahoma. Your IQ will drop just by being around the dumbasses here.

 

strong minimal side effect anti-convulsant, it not being legalized at least for medical purposes, ridiculous, and unconscionable

 

I'm pretty happy right now, I think I can qualify for medical here now.

The pain pills have been sucking and I know the herb works. Now at least i won't be a criminal anymore

Hang in there , laws are a changing.. just be fucking careful in OK. I avoid it but every so often I have to go thru Boise City,OK out in the panhandle

you in Norman? or Tulsa? .. they aren't so bad