a fair question from someone of your purported innocence.

You haven't seen or understood what prohibition does in the world outside your haven.

So you are entitled to wonder.  I could repeat myself,  but.. it should be obvious..and I've argued it too much .. I just hope that one day the benefits will be acknowledged,  rather than the negatives being actively encouraged.

if you wonder... go back a few doz pages and read what I and others have said.

Or don't...  but .. either way .  .. informed .. or  not..  your comments are always welcome.

Do you live in a city.??

fair enough.. 

I  s'pose I stand up for myself.. and what I consider to be right.
I consider legalisation as preferred option and prohibition to be wrong.
I have lived in this society,.. and seen the division and disunity in our society as a result of these ludicrous laws..
the incredible harm this policy  CREATES.

Yes  I have been quite personally involved n the process,  off and on over the yrs......

and ..there has to be a better way,  and yes... I often feel outraged at the wrong path our society has chosen to go down.   so I express myself.!!

hope that answers, in some small degree, your curiosity. 

So can you think of any unforeseen consequences of legalising dope?

Probably not because by definition they are unforeseen, however lets crank up your random thought generator and think of a few. (most people have their random thought generator beaten out of them by school and education)

Ah this is often true  ... but I'm not one of them.

I don't think like  'normal' people either. 

any unforeseen consequences of legalising dope?

that is a rather broad question.... 
Can I foresee unforeseen consequences of....... ?

Probably not because by definition they are unforeseen,

OK OK  .. yes I think I understand you... 

you ask whether I consider those 'consequences',.... perhaps already hi-lighted in media, or ignored by media,  need to be looked at in greater depth.

I absolutely agree Mickeytrees.. 
It is not something to be summarised in a few short sentences...  and so I'll consider your request,  and ...

DO YOU  have some unforeseen 'consequences' in mind.?

another hard question.

I would prefer... personally

In the resource industries you need to be drug tested from time to time.
THC can be detected quite a while after its use, this has led to the use of some of those real nasty drugs like Kronic.
That is nasty poo.

OK I digress

My guess is that if THC were legal, many more work places would random drug test.
Like alcohol is legal you still cant have it in your system doing lots of jobs.

^^^^ That may be an unintended consequence?.

What are my drug dealing friends going to do if they cant ply their trade as dope dealers?
I guess they will find some alternate substances to sell.
Becoming a law abiding worker is probably not on the radar.
Perhaps selling dope to people not old enough to legally purchase THC.

I am just throwing in a few possibilities

I find it unhelpful to bring alcohol and nicotine into the debate about THC.

Its a bit like saying hey I slashed my face with broken glass but its ok because I just got a barbed wire suppository as well.

No matter how bad alcohol or nicotine are they will not alter the safety or otherwise of THC.
(not that it matters but I hate  what alcohol and nicotine has done to our society)

some fair comments there.. Lion Ed...

If your idea of Decriminalisation embraced a licensing system for those grow-your-own-ers .. I could consider it has some advantages to open slather..  to continue punitive police action on these people is criminal in itself.

I intend to answer Mickyt's challenge,  but I think the country can only benefit from a radical change in this area of Law.

The best way ??  not my job..  but I have ideas. Of course the answer 's I supply are consequences/outcomes I can fore see... not guaranteed by anyone... including me.

To wit ..

Mickyt

I think the question is a paradox...  if your question had been what consequences do you foresee ??? ..that's different ....
so allow me to elucidate.. on that basis.

These are both long and short term ...  and I'll put them in simple point form...  but in no particular order of preference, or timeline.

- many many more police officers would be able to pursue real crime and criminals.

- Courts of Law would be able to address serious issues of Law,  rather than being swamped with these matters, and the backlog in our Courts would disappear in a short time.

- Property crimes, thefts , robberies would be greatly reduced.

- Drunk and drug driving would decrease significantly.

-The Prison population would decrease significantly .

- Domestic violence incidents would decrease.

- Overall.. the level of alcoholism and dependence on tobacco would decrease.. over time. 

- The savings from the above outcomes would become available for the protection and care of the disadvantaged and unwell.

- Depending on how the govt taxed the new approach...
potentially the National Deficit would reduce to Nil and produce a Surplus in a yr or two.

- Farmers would be rejuvenated, and be able to grow legitimate crops that are much  easier on the environment
and allow a resurgence in rural Australia.

- Agricultural focus will look to the uses and benefits and come out ahead.

- Medicine would  be advanced, with the stigma removed,  the benefits for health ..overall  would be eye-opening,  and the opportunities for medical and scientific research would open.

- Medical therapies already available in Australia...  thru stealth and going against societal norms .. would become freely and legally available..  And CHEAPLY. 


SO  MICKYT

there  are a few of the consequences I can fore see. 
I have more.. 

but perhaps you 'd like to comment ...?

cheers

Farmers would be rejuvenated, and be able to grow legitimate crops that are much  easier on the environment
and allow a resurgence in rural Australia.

- Agricultural focus will look to the uses and benefits and come out ahead

I cant see this.

Need to see how you arrived at this.

miketrees wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2013 at 5:50pm:


How can you not see this??

  For one example/
- People who once needed thousands or even millions of square miles of  irrigated land to produce cotton.or rice..... could use a fraction of the space and inputs to produce a crop at least as valuable, ...and enable the rest of the land to be rehabilitated and/or put to other , better crops, or better landcare usage.
Such as other hemp varieties,  which our elders discovered, had many many uses,  and ..  does not leave an indelible mark  like plastics and synthetic materials.
Nor require the high levels of use of pesticides, insecticides and fertiliser...  all anathema to a healthy environment.

A hardy plant..  in fact.. capable of becoming a weed.. it offers much to producers.
Another example... all those Dairy farmers struggling and about to lose all,  could turn their very fertile, unviable
dairy farm  into an organically grown wealth of riches... not bow down and die before Coles and Woolworths,  if they CHOSE.

Entirely fore-seeable.