marijuana supporters have claimed for some time now that drugs, both
to the society and individuals, are safer compared to alcohol. However, a
ballot plan to make marijuana possession legal in Colorado, possibly be
included in the ballot in November 2012, is putting both intoxicants back
into similar discussion, appealing to voters to “make marijuana legal
similar to alcohol”, as the title of the ballot proposition puts it.
Given the checkered and long history of alcohol – thousands of deaths
annually; alcohol’s social ravages – pro-marijuana measure supporters
admit that there’s a possibility of seeming they have made up too much
to alcohol.
Mason Tvert, the Campaign’s co-director, claimed that they aren’t
adding another vice – they are providing a substitute. He added that the
legalization’s intention is to not facilitate marijuana, but to instead make
the public safer by legalizing such substance, keep marijuana away from
the black market, having power over marijuana and removing it from
teenagers.
The debate, which is held in Washington and Colorado at the same time,
wherein pro-legalization group members have submitted enough
signatures in order to acquire a position on the ballot, is based on the
notion that marijuana became popular, and known to average voters.
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