Legalizing Marijuana: Costs vs Benefits
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Police chief Scott Kirkland debates marijuana advocates Eugene Schoenfeld and Richard Lee over the costs and benefits of legalization. Kirkland argues that the tax revenue it generates will be offset by the increased public health costs, while Schoenfeld and Lee counter that keeping marijuana ille
gal insures unreasonably high crime rates associated with the drug. ----- Marijuana is by some estimates California's largest cash crop, bringing in more than twice the revenue of vegetables, yet we don't tax this green. Legalizing and taxing pot could provide $1.3 billion to help our hemorrhaging
economy, but it might also lead to additional problems and undermine anti-drug efforts. Is this crop just cash waiting to be reaped, or is it more complicated? Come hear advocates on both sides argue the pros and cons of legalizing marijuana. - Commonwealth Club of California Scott Kirkland is the
Chief of the El Cerrito Police Department. He is also a member of the board of directors of the California Police Chiefs Association. Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld practices psychiatry, with a specialty in psychopharmacology. His work in psychopharmacology includes the study, diagnosis, and treatment of p
roblems related to drug abuse and addiction. Since 1983, he has served on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. Dr. Schoenfeld is a member of the court-appointed psychiatrist panels for the Superior Courts of Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Marin County, and San Francisco, CA
. In 1997, the University of Miami School of Medicine selected him as a Distinguished Alumnus. Richard Lee has been working to end cannabis prohibition for 17 years. In 1999, he opened the Bulldog Coffeeshop, the second cannabis outlet in "Oaksterdam". In 2003 Lee founded the Oakland Civil Libertie
s Alliance, the PAC that passed Oakland's Measure Z making private sales, cultivation, and possession of cannabis the lowest law enforcement priority and mandating that Oakland tax and regulate cannabis as soon as possible under state law. In 2007, he founded the first cannabis college in the United
States, Oaksterdam University. Since 2005, Lee has been serving on the City of Oakland Cannabis Regulation and Revenue Ordinance Commission, which was created after Measure Z passed with 65% of the vote 2004. He manages several other Oaksterdam companies, including the Oaksterdam Gift Shop and Nurs
ery.
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so with tobacco so they say. it is the chemical process that it passed through that makes it harmful, government role is to inform the people the proper use of these plants and and the results or effects on abusing it...let the people have their rights to choose....
imagined smoking marijuana legally.
is getting high.
clearly dont smoke so you clearly dont know.
the opposite. It makes you not give a fuck and be relaxed... So the next time you smoke weed and someone asks what are you doing just say... I'm gonna go enjoy life ;)
high right now, as we speak, and i can honestly speak on behalf of myself, i dont feel like killing anyone, or causing any harm to anyone or myself, thank you for your time, im going to go blaze
dollars we can gain
but Millions of people already do smoke weed so FUCK OFF! LEGALIZE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I ask! =)
If it was legalized it was probally be less expensive, so everyone can afford blunts and bongs :D
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n" if you want to know the game plan.
is an IDIOT and a LIAR!!!!!!.
worse by promoting criminality.
thing about alcoholics.
pin ye down and force you to smoke it then u will finaly see ters notin wrong with it hahaha but i all fairness its none of ur buisness wether other people smoke it or not. is your life actually that bad you have to try and control others
and again an uneducated person mixes up weed and herion well done buddy nice try
Kirkland is obviously in cahoots with the dea and the military complex. comparing cannabis to alcohol, is like comparing cigarettes to soda pop. (this would never happen;) but, we could only hope and pray the heavy alcohol drinkers would switch to cannabis. if they all did, America would see
a huge decrees in crime.
convenient store and gave him alcohol, he is likely to end up killing the clerk. but; if you gave him cannabis, he probably would change his mind, and not even commit the crime to begin with. cannabis is not illegal because it's a dangerous drug. it has nothing to do with the fact that it's a
drug. that's merrily the weapon used to keep it illegal.
true
WE shall see sense.
good argument
lol