Complicated
关于marijuana的意见，我同意生产销售和使用无罪，但并不鼓励使用。我倾向于像对待烟草酒精和prostitution一样通过课税进行管理。
联邦对marijuana的态度一直很明确，Gonzales v. Raich is still the good law and CSA has not changed the categorization of marijuana.
Basically the situation is that some states refuse to enforce the federal law incriminating cultivation, sale, and possession of marijuana. Thus in lack of the police force, the US attorney stopped suing federal violation of marijuana in those states.
My concern about decriminalization of marijuana is that the relation between marijuana and non-drug related crime. Statistic shows that approximately 40% of arrestees test positive for marijuana use and that marijuana is the drug whose metabolites are most requently found in arrestees’ urine. This disproportionately high prevalence is not merely a result of drug-related crime, but the rate is the same among the detainees of non-drug related crime such as public disorder offense and domestic violence.
But the fact that the arrestees tested positive for marijuana use are usually also tested positive for use of alchol or of other controlled substance may explain the contradictory that marijuana has generally been shown to inhibit aggressive behavior and violence in humans and thus it is believed not to be a major contributor to crime. (Excluding marijuana as a crime per se.)
Another study by National Research Council provides that long-term use of marijuana may alter the nervous system to cause violence, and among juveniles, violent crime is consistantly connected to cannabis use.
The association between marijuana use and crime is clear but unidentified, so decriminalization of marijuana use is best to remain in democratic legislative province.
联邦对marijuana的态度一直很明确，Gonzales v. Raich is still the good law and CSA has not changed the categorization of marijuana.
Basically the situation is that some states refuse to enforce the federal law incriminating cultivation, sale, and possession of marijuana. Thus in lack of the police force, the US attorney stopped suing federal violation of marijuana in those states.
My concern about decriminalization of marijuana is that the relation between marijuana and non-drug related crime. Statistic shows that approximately 40% of arrestees test positive for marijuana use and that marijuana is the drug whose metabolites are most requently found in arrestees’ urine. This disproportionately high prevalence is not merely a result of drug-related crime, but the rate is the same among the detainees of non-drug related crime such as public disorder offense and domestic violence.
But the fact that the arrestees tested positive for marijuana use are usually also tested positive for use of alchol or of other controlled substance may explain the contradictory that marijuana has generally been shown to inhibit aggressive behavior and violence in humans and thus it is believed not to be a major contributor to crime. (Excluding marijuana as a crime per se.)
Another study by National Research Council provides that long-term use of marijuana may alter the nervous system to cause violence, and among juveniles, violent crime is consistantly connected to cannabis use.
The association between marijuana use and crime is clear but unidentified, so decriminalization of marijuana use is best to remain in democratic legislative province.
