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The False Dichotomy of Legalization and Criminalization

| Kevin Sabet | TEDxPrincetonU

TOP 10 Messages Against Legalization

Marijuana legalization will usher in America's new version of "Big Tobacco"
Marijuana use will increase under legalization
Marijuana is especially harmful to kids and adolescents.
Today's marijuana is NOT your Woodstock weed.
Marijuana legalization will increase public costs.
People are not in prison for small time marijuana use.
Drug cartels and the black market will continue to function under legalization.
Neither Portugal nor Holland provides any successful example of legaization.
Marijuana has medicine properties, but we shouldn't smoke the plant in order to derive those benefits, just like we do not smoke opium to get the benefits of morphine.
Experience from Colorado is not promising.

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