Harvard Economist on why marijuana should be legalized
2010 July 6
www.truehigh.com — Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron deconstructs the reasons why the war on drugs needs to stop. From the documentary HIGH The True Tale of American Marijuana, out now on DVD and iTunes: Amazon: www.amazon.com iTunes: tinyurl.com Netflix: www.netflix.com
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But 90% of drug related arrests or not just marijuana, they are for the harder drugs. Even if marijuana was legalized I doubt that it would make much of a difference in the percentage of drug related arrests. But if it does, like he says, and there is not a greater need to hire so many policeman, then they’re out of a job, and of luck.
Just use robots to be your labor economist.
Economic is causing so much problem to the world. It is teaching people to seek benefit and profit. Causing people to be materialism. Causing people to be unsatisfied with their life causing people to suicide causing people to suffer causing people to forget the word “enough” Causing to world to loose balance between the mental and physical world.
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@mrboycom ahah “self-fish”. Now that you got the bullshit rant out of the way…
@thetvuser666 most pot heads i know are agiasnt crack and hard drugs like that marijuana was a gateway drug to alchol for me.
Just legelise thc free weed.its the cbd that makes you luagh half the pot heads dont know that cause there too stoned.
@mrboycom Thank you Captain Irrelevant.
@Dennissays Once an addict yes its true that it would be difficult to believe. But one very little known fact about heroin that neither the govt or dealers will tell you is that heroin can be safely used without addiction if you wait at least a week or 2 before the next use. Therefore its very possible to use and be a productive member of society. All it takes is personal responisibility.
Economist don’t want people to get rich because people get rich, they will work less, work less don’t benefit economic. Economist want people to be a labor working to produce better GDP and so on. Economic principle is just focus in materialism making people self-fish. Economic is the subject of the hard work labor. I hate economic. Correct me with reason if i am wrong. Economic don’t care about people feeling all economic care is productivity.
@SumNJFella You say once rehabilitated, meaning they don’t use any more? Or they still use but have been rehabilitated? Because I strongly disagree that a heroin addict can use and be a productive member of a society.
@Dennissays… even heroin addicts are productive people. (Once rehabilitated) And believe it or not, I’ve met junkies with higher intellect than these kids roaming around the universities. There’s a void in their life that they are despertley trying to fill… It’s called a chemical imbalance in their brains. Don’t knock junkies for trying to self-medicate…you have such a vicious view of people who abuse drugs…Now for weed…that should be legal lol..
legalize it and then put all the non-smokers in their hell-on-earth prisons for a few decades or so, if they won’t smoke gods herb- the bible says god gave us all seed bearing plants for man to use (or smoke ya know) then blare the beatles tunes at them until they are cool-n praise Jesus for his precious thought-out plan to put thc on earth for man to ingest high to the god-on-high…my precious, HAIR PEACE
@SumNJFella oh jeez you did what??? had a threesum with rachel lee cook & obama, while smoking the presidents ounces of weed, why didn’t you call me, and my mom
legalize weed. if you do that most people wont even do heroin or cocaine. i would think heroin user would start using pot instead. the ones that go to rehab get clean they will say hey now that weeds legal ill just smoke that since its save instead of jamming needles into my arms. i dont know if im right thats what i would do.
i rather smoke weed than kill people but if they don’t want to legalize weed we have to kill
This guy is so fucking smart it’s rediculous. All drug czars like John Walters think is drugs =bad=illegal
weed should be legalized, noething els unless it is perscribed for a medical condition.
Wait, wait, wait…You really believe that HEROIN ADDICTS SHOULD BE ALOUD TO INJECT HEROIN!!!!!????!!!!???? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!!!!!????? WHO GIVES A FUCK IF AIDS IS SPREAD, ITS SPREAD BETWEEN FUCKING JUNKIE TRASH WHO DESERVE TO DIE ANYWAYS! HEROIN ADDICTS CAN IN NO WAY BE PRODUCTIVE IN SOCIETY. HOW THE FUCK DOES A HARVARD ECONOMIST NOT RECOGNIZE THIS? As far as weed, whatever, I just can’t believe this jackass thinks legalizing hard injection type drugs should happen.
ok , if weed was legalized it would be that only the government can grow it , it would still be illegal to grow it in your own home , this is not what most people want , most people want to be able to grow it in there own houses , if the government could only grow it you would get a small ammount of it no matter what .
you tell me obama doesn’t smoke pot and I’ll tell you I fucked Rachel Leigh Cook
Finnaly someone right about Marijuana
@Bilderbergz quite an assumption lol come on we’ve all seen it
womenz is crazy, especially with no dope.
@blindronin420 we have LSD receptors in our brain, does that mean we’re supposed to be taking acid in our daily vitamins?
just to make a point, i’m totally for decriminalization.
I think it’s important to look at this from a money stand point. Moral issues have left us in a mess for a long time over this. Too many hot heads on both sides. Money talks, and while I am not in favor of money trumping morality, we need a new way to look at this problem that ruins lives. If we are not a rational people, I will take what I can get to get my message across. We NEED more people like this, thinking like this to help the cause.