Thread: Legalizing Mary-Jane Yes or No?

Originally Posted by Shinysides

I'd rather see decriminalization versus legalization. I don't like the drug cartels, but I actually dislike the tobacco industry more. And the tobacco industry would be mass producing cheap, poor quality marijuana. I'd prefer to go to my dealer and spend a little more on the good stuff knowing that the tobacco industries won't see a dime of it.

You know that it's still possible to buy good-quality tobacco from suppliers who specialize in it, despite the fact that the big cigarette companies are also making a lot of cheap crappy tobacco, right? The same would presumably hold true for marijuana. A huge portion of the marijuana user base wants good stuff, so if it was legalized, that demand is going create a large market for high-quality marijuana that many suppliers will get into. You'd still be able to get the good stuff, and you wouldn't have to give any of your money to big tobacco companies if you didn't want to (it'd go to smaller niche suppliers, many of them probably totally unconnected to the tobacco industry), AND that good stuff would cost substantially less than you are paying to your dealer for it now. It's not like legalizing weed will make good stuff harder to get, or mean that the only available weed will be low-quality.