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Originally posted by ktsnake
Agreed.
Unfortunately, congress typically does the bidding of big business. Especially when it's not immediately obvious to consumers. In this case, you cut the drug companies out of the loop (and out of a lot of money) if you have medication that patients can grow on their own.
It could lead down a path that would legalize marijuana. Thus, putting out of the job thousands of enforcement and corrections personnel.
Would it save billions and billions of tax dollars though? Yes.
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I suppose it just comes down to what's more important: economics or the well-being of others. There does have to be a balance, after all.
If I'm not mistaken, I don't think the medical marijuana users actually grow their own. I think someone else is responsible for it. As far as putting people out of a job...I doubt it. Think of how many people you know (or know of) that use drugs but have yet to be caught. They could definitely do more in the pursuit of users, dealers, traffickers, etc. I have no problem w/ the drug laws now, I just wish they were better enforced.