Why is pot illegal?

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What makes you think there'll be any less people in jail?

uhhh.....if it were legal, you wouldnt go to jail for having it in your possesion. Simple as that.

i think if they made weed legal it would just make coke the next thing to legalize. eventually itll all be legal and well kill ourselves cuz we cant find anything naughty do busy ourselves with.

Agreed.

Keep it illegal, up enforcement and the consequences, and make prison as much of a hell as possible.

I couldnt disagree more. Someone being a pothead is COMPLETELY different than someone being a cokehead. The only similarity that coke and weed have is that they are both come from a plant and they are both illegal. The way you act when on each drug is night and day comparison. If you have no experience with either drug, look at it like this: Tony Montana vs. Cheech & Chong. HUGE difference.

How many people have you heard of that overdose on coke? How many people have you heard of overdosing on pot?

As far as "upping the consequences and making prison as much of a hell as possible", what is the point of that? The govt. will spend more money that they dont have to throw people that smoke a harmless* plant in a cage with people that raped and murdered innocent people. The only outcome of that is if the pothead doesnt get killed, he will be a lot worse of a person when he gets out. Ever seen Blow?

*harmless by means of not harming anyone else.