Question Four on the Massachusetts ballot concerns the legalization of marijuana.
I'm voting yes on question four.
I don't smoke marijuana. I smoked it a couple times between high school and college and that was over twenty years ago. So I do have some basis of understanding marijuana. I've also smoked tobacco a few times over the years. Single cigarettes here and there and the last time I tried one was when it was still legal to smoke in bars in Massachusetts. My memories of smoking marijuana area about the same as smoking a cigarette. I got about the same impact from smoking marijuana as I did a cigarette. If tobacco hadn't of been big business when marijuana was made illegal you can bet tobacco would have gone that path too. And then there's alcohol. I don't see much difference between the impacts of alcohol and marijuana either. The new law would only make marijuana legal for people over twenty-one, just like alcohol and tobacco. I don't see any big difference between marijuana, tobacco and alcohol. Alcohol and tobacco are legal. Marijuana should be too.
I'm also a believer in the legalize it and tax it approach. Right now we have a pretty big black market for marijuana. None of that is taxed. Legalize it and tax it. Bring in new revenue to the state.
Lastly I'm a fan of personal rights. Adults over twenty-one are fully capable of making their own decision to smoke marijuana or not. We can put the same curbs on it as we do alcohol.
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