08-03-2016, 12:14 PM
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Originally posted by alaskyn66
Mary Jane, pot, pakalolo.. etc has killed no one .
Let's get rid of the problem and move on to the next problem.
Not entirely sure I'm willing to buy into that first statement. There have been a lot of accidents (on this island as well as elsewhere) with "impaired" drivers - not just alcohol, but also Mary Jane, etc. There may be merit to Chunkster's approach - Darwinian screening - except that there will be collateral damage of innocents on the roads and in the work place. Until we have a mechanism for effectively removing the threat posed to the rest of society by the drug impaired, I have a difficult time seeing drug legalization as getting rid of a problem...