Since cannabis is on the path to full legalization, should we also legalize LSD, Ecstasy and Mushrooms for the same reasons? Particularly since they cause less harm than cannabis: <a href="http://m.imgur.com/Pz1NIEQ" rel="nofollow">http://m.imgur.com/Pz1NIEQ</a><p>Source: <a href="http://www.sg.unimaas.nl/_OLD/oudelezingen/dddsd.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.sg.unimaas.nl/_OLD/oudelezingen/dddsd.pdf</a>
We might think that smoking can be bad for individuals, and decriminalization is good for society at the same time.
However, a seven month time period is not enough to read the experiment on many the variables claimed in the article (blight, drop outs, etc.)
Just to play devils advocate here:<p>It sounds great, except for the fact there's a kind of product gentrification going on.<p><a href="http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/07/30/colorado-marijuana-black-market-pot-illegal-marijuana-growing/17245/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/07/30/colorado-marijuana-bla...</a><p>"In this light, taxation is seen as a blunt instrument of exclusion, driving precisely the groups most prosecuted in the war on drug further into the arms of the black market where they remain at risk for arrest or robbery. In one Denver dispensary, a $30 purchase of one-eighth of the Trinity strain of cannabis includes $7.38 in state and local taxes — a near 33 percent rate. As Larisa Bolivar, one of the city’s most well-known proponents of decriminalizing marijuana nationally and opening a true free market, puts it: That seven bucks buys someone lunch.<p>“It’s simple,” she says. “A high tax rate drives black market growth. It’s an incentive for risky behavior.”"