fuzzyninja

The fight for legalization is gaining momentum, but if we want more drastic changes we probably should add to or change the current methods of fighting.

My idea I just thought of this morning is actually fighting to ILLEGALIZE caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco. I know this has probably already been mentioned in speeches for the legalization of marijuana, but there is no groups as widespread for illegalizing the things mentioned.

We all know that caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine is addicting - so we start there.

One point could be that no one is doing anything to help these people with there addictions to caffeine and they are already trying to help people with ILLEGAL ones. Obviously the war on drugs isn't working. Are they supporting the addiction to caffeine? The answer is yes, and no one seems to care. "Just a few hours after consumption, when the artificial high dies down, many people may reach for more coffee or something sugary to get another lift, leading to daily fluctuations in energy and alertness, and possibly to eventual chronic adrenal exhaustion." (newstarget.com) They tell you that caffeine is nice because it ups your reflexes, alertness, and energy. So does cocaine, and they don't support that, do they?

The downsides to alcohol and nicotine are very obvious, so I'm not going to explain them.
But heres the theory I have:

If the government is suddenly having people want to illegalize three of their main sources of income, they'll probably be more vulnerable to legalizing something less harmful. Without the mention of marijuana legalization in these anti caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine groups - a group such as NORML could team up with such a group (whose hidden agenda will actually be to legalize marijuana) and the fight will be stronger.

Of course one could go with the standard marijuana legalization speech with the added negative sides of caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine - but this method I think would be a lot stronger. Though much more time and resource consuming than the standard methods, legalizing mary-jane would be so much sweeter!

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