Would Legalizing Marijuana Increase Consumption?
Would Legalizing Marijuana Increase Consumption? – Complete video at: fora.tv A panel of advocates debate the potential effects of marijuana legalization on consumption rates of the drug. Cannabis activist Richard Lee argues that legalization decreases marijuana use, while RAND’s Beau Kilmer points out a common misconception related to that argument. —– Will California become the first state to legalize the production and sale of marijuana? November ballot measure Proposition 19 would allow local governments to choose whether and how to regulate and tax marijuana. Some are concerned about legalization’s effect on consumption and public health, while others tout the potential boon to city and state coffers. Besides the jaw-dropping estimated retail price decrease from 0 to per ounce, nothing is really certain about the potential impact of Prop 19. Get informed before the vote — don’t miss advocates of both sides arguing the pros and cons of pushing pot through the legal pipeline. – Commonwealth Club of California Beau Kilmer is codirector of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. His primary fields of interest are illicit markets, community corrections, drug treatment, and the future of drug testing. Kilmer’s recent work focused on measuring the size of the global drug market for the European Commission and developing indicators to measure the impact of drug enforcement in Europe. His current work focuses on identifying the community-level effects of drug treatment and assessing the cost-effectiveness of an …
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I am very certain that usage of marijuana would increase if you made it legal. But only for a while, a few years perhaps (forbidden fruit, all of a sudden? right there, ready to be handed to you for a few bucks). The usage would most likely drop to normal levels after a while though.
ZOMFG 4,200? VEIWS WOOOT LUCKY ONE
if the price of marijuana dropped to $40 per ounce than the government could easily offset this by charging a 400% tax rate increasing the price to $200 per ounce. i think that there would be lots of puchasing still, and the government would make out like a bandit while the people were still happy. no funding prison cells for marijuana users, decreased costs in all legal aspects round this off to make everyone? but the criminals happy.
and by the way, who said smoking marijuana is a problem? o,0, is at simple as if you like smoking smoke it, if you? dont like it dont do it. let us think for ourslefs what is good or not to do with our bodies.
simple, pot makes billions of dollar a year, kills no one, legal drugs kill millions, why not cash in all that money pot makes every year and use it for good stuff? imagine how? better lifestyle would be with the legal use of this drug !! legalizing it would be some of the best ideas ever
Just one problem. Whatever what? country you live in, it’s not anywhere near a free country.
ignorance and? stalling
“FROM COMMON SENSE”
The real problems you don’t understand the difference between LEGAL and LAWFUL.
The? issue is the language.
de·le·gal·ize – To revoke the legality of
, and everyone saying we should make Marijuana legal is ignorant and stupid, and don’t know about what they are? saying.
Marijuana is already legalized that’s why it is illegal to use it, and that is the VERY ISSUE.
Is what people should say is that they want to DE-LEGALIZE MARIJUANA.
Its illegal to use but not unlawful
He’s avoiding the whole point. If politicians are considering legalizing marijuana then why do? consumption rates even matter?? Also what is so bad about society in the 70’s, where waving a PEACE sign was common gesture? He’s beating around the bush.
That’s as far as I? can remember, btw, I can’t really be sure that I’m remembering those prices correctly. Perhaps someone who lives in the netherlands or who has been there more recently can clue us in on exactly what the prices are. Plus, this guy says that he indeed doesn’t know what the shape of the demand curb looks like.
The guy downplays the netherlands’ legal status. It is basically the? same as if it was legal, and that includes a MUCH lower price. I went there in 2006 and it was 6 euros for 2 grams of white widow (your basic strain, but very decent quality). Comparable strains where i live can easily cost you 20 dollars for .8 of a gram. That’s less than one fifth of the price, and yet their use is still half of America’s.
they? keep funding terriorest
CORRECTION: Opps… I have just found out that there are, indeed, some carcinogens present in marijuana smoke; however, extensive studies have concluded that there is some mechanism which prevents these carcinogens from causing cancers even in? heavy marijuana smokers. They also found no decrease in lung function.
Oh my! They are afraid that people may quit ingesting a toxic liquid that causes organ damage, mental impairment, loss of motor control, has severe social consequences and the effects have to be slept off; and instead start using something that is relatively benign, contains no carcinogens, lasts two or three hours, and appears to have cancer fighting abilities.
Oh yeah, it might be hard to tax and a lot of fat cats might not be? able to peddle their poison so marijuana would be bad.For THEM!
@tanksta0wns Even though it would be harder for us youth (im 16) to get marijuana if it were legal, im still for legalisation. Prohibition is a? crime itself its ruining to many lives.
The pot-head guy got owned?
I don’t? think so, I think the same people who would use marijuana if it were legal are the very same people that are already using it now illegally. And IM one of them.
Wait…so they are frightened that more people will spend their friday nights laughing and having a good time using a safe substance?
I just don’t understand. I can binge eat, binge drink, chain smoke, jump my dirtbike 20 feet in the air but I can’t? smoke some weed.
Weed is the safest drug in the world=with caffiene
I think an adult can decide how they would like to treat their body. It doesn’t affect anyone. It is seriously disgusting how much control the governent wants over us…
why heavily increase prices?
just drop them slightly and tax the rest…?
public health and money are all besides the point.we own our own bodies plain and simple.i should be able to smoke a tire if I want to.?
Beau? is stupid, why dont I just smoke my quarter now? Because I dont want to be tripping Balls. Its called self control which they think we are incapable of.
Even if usage goes up over? 100% and prices drop by 90%, we should still legalize it. I don’t give a fly fuck if someone wants to smoke a joint in their own home.
Kilmer, for all his drug market research can not conceive of the true nature of the subject he studies.
He sees the drug pricing as something controlled by conventional economics.
He fails to perceive that the global Cannabis industry is controlled by the worlds people in a way that he can not comprehend.
There are no CEO’s determining? the price
It is a truly free market.
Humans have grown hemp from the beginning of civilisation
Undecided voters: “I’m a little skeptical about all these claims and I’ve read that there are some issues and I want? to know how you guys would deal with them before I give you my vote.”
Pro-MJ crowd: “There is no such issue! It’s all Reefer Madness! You want to live in a nanny state. And you’re mentally handicapped on top of that as well!”
Very convincing.