It's Genius: California Likely to Legalize Marijuana

It's brilliant! As we know, California is having very tough economic times—they are going to make an obscene amount of revenue if/when marijuana becomes legal. Not only would they make a lot of money from the taxes, but they will be making bank off all the increased tourism as well (from not only the Americas, but from around the world). You can disagree on whether or not weed should be legalized, but you must agree that this is a very smart move for California economically. I have little doubt that by legalizing weed alone, California will find themselves crawling out of their financial hole. Of course that will only last so long, when all the other states see the large amounts of revenue, they will want a piece of that pie as well.

Do I believe weed should be legalized? Yes, but that is not because I am all that interested in doing it. The question of whether or not something should be made illegal by a government is if that thing is deemed harmful to the society. I think weed is as harmful to society as women over 50 that wear revealing clothing in public (seriously, nobody wants to see that). So, if the government is to be that sensitive towards removing all things which may cause slight harm to society, then I propose the following laws:

• All women over the age of 50 must conform to a certain dress code (turtlenecks, sweatpants, sweatshirts, baggy shorts etc.).
• Cigarette/Cigar smoking should be banned.
• Alcohol should be banned.
• It should be illegal for people under the age of 17 to talk louder than a whisper.
• Child singing stars should be banned, and anyone that continues to listen to them will be dragged into a field and shot execution style.
• Old people should no longer be able to get plastic surgery (just a terrible waste of resources).
• Breast implants should be banned (having them is a form of fraud).
• Nascar should be banned... actually, no, rednecks in general should be banned.
• Lobbyist should be banned.
• Fast food restaurants should be banned.
  
  

All of the above can be argued as being as bad as marijuana for society. Here is a list of the harm marijuana is to society when made illegal. 

• Drug dealers
• Prison destroys a person's life far worse than smoking a joint.
• Can't be taxed, and all the income made by the selling of it goes to the drug dealers. 
• Wasted money spent on the prison's baby-sitters; those professional baby-sitters could be doing real, productive, jobs. 
• Housing a person in a prison cell cost a lot of money and eliminates the productivity that person could have in the outside world. 
• Causes marijuana to be a possible gateway into further crime due to the current criminal nature of obtaining it.
• Hemp has many uses such as making cloth and plastic-like materials (would be good for American industry); not having it prevents the benefit of having it.

I believe that like gay-marriage, the idea of marijuana becoming legalized pisses off the religious conservatives in this country, which may be one of the main reason why I support it.