6 Persona-Types Against Legalization, and How to Win Them Over

From conversation, browsing blogs, reading comments, listening to politicians, and watching debates on news channels over the past year, I've grouped all prohibitionists into six major groups that distinctly stand apart from each other and can be taken on, one-by-one, to win the conversation for rational policy:


The Cynical Stoner, The Thumper, The MADDer, The Politician, The Prioritizer, and The Hater

Why "Taxing the Hell out of it" won't make it "way too expensive."

In response to a specific, but common comment on a particular article:

"the Government will only tax it to death still causing you to spend more than it's worth."

Please read to see the fallacy in this and to see that action must be taken now to kill the black market.

Marijuana's illegal to have, but low-risk and people are getting over the lies about its dangers.

Demand--UP UP UP.

It's more illegal to grow & distribute, and very high risk, and requires sophisticated operations for any reasonably sized grow.

Supply--DOWN DOWN DOWN

Result:

Not Demanding Legal Domestic-Grown Industrial Hemp is Irresponsible: 42 Reasons

It's illegal because it's a Marijuana derivative; though an acre of the stuff couldn't get a squirrel high, but could produce 4 tree acres worth of paper, annually. So unless Tommy Chong was hired to roll telephone pole-sized blunts, hold back the misinformed dogmatic rhetorics and put those thoughts to rest. This crop will save the world when we take our blinders off, do a little educating, and DEMAND it.