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Originally Posted by Sangetsu
Have you been hiding in your mother's basement? Haven't you heard of "cause and effect"?
I didn't mention anything about Amsterdam, did I? I said "America", didn't I? If you and your 50 friends are smoking pot, then you and they are contributing to the death and misery which are occurring in Mexico right now, and however indirect that responsibility is, it still exists. But of course you'll do the typical American thing and blame someone else: "if it were legalized, those people wouldn't have died...", while conveniently overlooking the fact that smoking pot is illegal, and if you had obeyed the law and not smoked it, those people would also be alive.
The laws governing the possession and use of drugs are not an opinion, they are laws. Death is not an opinion, it is a fact. As long as people continue to be selfish and deny that their actions have an effect on the world around them, then the world will continue to suffer.
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people die for alot of things. like the rice you eat, the pork you cook, the sugar you put into your coffee, the gas you put into your car, and obviously the diamonds you buy. you may not know it but its true. people find a great source of coffee beans , coacoa beans and such and people die over it so someone can walk into a store and pay 1.99 for a can of it. this is how the world works, im sad to even say it but its the truth. everything you buy has a price on it worth more that the dolllars your paying for it. even if people stopped smoking weed, those people are going to die anyways. when they run out of diamonds to sell in africa, those innocent people are going to die just because of their creed and race. i do believe that if it is legalized ,though, that people wouldnt die. supply and demand would be a factor concerning the growth and production of marijuana. in order to sell it to the states, they would need workers to grow and maintain the plants. because in the U.S. everything must be of a certain quality to be sold. you wouldnt buy water if it had shit floating in it. then they would need people to pick and screen the product. then they would need licensed drivers to drive the products to the U.S. and to other COUNTRIES THAT BUY MARIJUANA AS WELL. without a proper work force the business would go to somewhere else, and making money is something everyone thinks about. one reason that people are killed is because some shipments are stopped by customs and by the guard. if they dont make it to the U.S. then most of the time they blame the people making the delivery and kill them. if your still really interested in doing something to stop the killing then do something about it than jsut arguing about it on here