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  • Prayer Book
    • We Love Religion, But Not Forcing It On Others!
    • What We Are Saying, and What We Are Not Saying
    • Titus 1:15, Of Beliefs and Purity
    • Despise the Shame -- Introduction
      • He Despised the Shame
      • Despise the Shame: Stand Up and Announce the Need to End Drug Prohibition
      • U.N. Drug Prohibition "Treaty" is a Weapon of Mass Destruction!
      • Andre Agassi Reveals His Use of Crystal Meth
        • CEO of SWATCH, Andre Agassi Sponsor, Downplays Agassi Admission
      • Mark McGwire Faces the Music, Admits Steroid Use
    • Advice
      • Dr. Hochman Reads His Advice to Teens and Parents
        • Dr. Hochman's Guides on Drug Use Video
      • The Evil Eye
    • May You Never Have Access to What You Deny Others
    • Comparison: Prohibitionists are to the Devil What Abolitionists are to God
    • Calif. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Says it's Time to Study Legalizing Marijuana
    • Founding Documents
  • Prohibition Prophecy
    • Prohibition Prophecy: 21st and 18th Amendments
    • Paul Prophecies Hypocritical Liars Will Forbid Others From Partaking in God's Gifts
    • Prohibition Prophecy: Jonathan Magbie, Sentenced to 10 Days, Faithful Until Death
    • Prohibition Prophecy: Unjust Laws and Making Widows Their Prey, 92 Year Old Kathryn Johnston
    • Preacher Murdered: Just Another "Fill Up" at the Filling Station
      • Links to Pastor Ayers' Shooting
      • Video of Pastor Jonathan Ayers' Assault and Killing
    • Psalm 108:12, "The Help of Man is Vain." How God Used Me to Stop a Gang Fight
    • The Moral Failings of Thug Addicts
    • "And So Upon You Will Come All The Righteous Blood Shed On Earth!"
      • Undeserved Suffering Needs to End
        • According to guest, Andrea Lari, on "Foreign Exchange," what is the number of Colombian refugees due to the Drug War?
        • Deaths in Mexico Due to Prohibition Violence Set to Exceed Last Year
        • Chicago Experiences Explosion of Teen Deaths
        • Family of Four Murdered Over Drug Debt, Killers Sentenced to Death
        • Grandmom Buys Allergy Medicine, Arrested, Mug Shot on Front Page
        • Sick Fear and Hatred of the Government
        • Tainted Cocaine Adding to U.S. Health Problems (Thanks to Prohibition)
        • Plea to ChristiansAgainstProhibition.org
    • Down With the Drug Warrior Perjurers
      • Bruce Mirken Rebuts John Walters' Lies About Marijuana Potency
      • FBI Director Mueller Perjures Congress, "Everybody Rejects It [Legalization of Marijuana]"
      • Former Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey, Drug Warrior Perjurer
      • Former Drug Czar McCaffrey Lies to Moskos and Lynch on Lou Dobbs
    • Sitting in the Seat of God
    • Who does God call his own?
  • Analyzing Drugs and Problems
    • A Working Vocabulary
      • Kinds of Drugs, Defining the Categories
    • Objections to Ending Prohibition
      • Economic Objections to Ending Prohibition
        • "Won't Legalizing Marijuana Increase Health Care Costs?"
        • "Won't Legalizing Marijuana Increase Public Safety Costs?"
        • "Won't the Black Market Be Able to Undercut Government Prices?"
        • Will Ending Prohibition Will Cost More Money Than It Collects?
      • Social Objections to Ending Prohibition
        • "Isn't Marijuana Addictive?"
        • "What About the 'Gateway Theory' That Says All Marijuana Users Go On to Hard Drugs?"
        • Look at the Damage Caused by Alcohol. Do We Really Want Marijuana Legalized?
          • Driving a Car
        • The Children
          • Legalizing Drugs Sends the Right Message to Teens
          • The Need to End the Stigma of Drugs -- Stigmatizing Drugs Encourages the Rebellious to Try Them
          • Will Ending Prohibition Make it Easier for Children to Obtain Drugs?
        • The Evil Lie Purporting That Marijuana is "Devil's Weed"
        • We Can't Control the Two Legal Drugs We Already Have
        • What Would Happen if Marijuana Were Decriminalized? Professor Joel W. Hay
        • Why Make More Mind Altering Substances Available?
          • Mind Altering Analysis
          • Repentance -- It's Mind Altering!
    • LSD
      • LSD User Praises LSD. 100 Year-Old Albert Hoffman Speaks to Crowd.
      • LSD Name Dropping 1
      • Pirates Pitcher Doc Ellis Pitches No Hitter While on LSD
      • Time's Brief Interview with Lattin on "The Harvard Psychedelic Club"
    • Marijuana
      • Dr. Lester Grinspoon Speaks in Favor of Marijuana
      • Judge Gray Testifies Reasons to Legalize Marijuana
      • McLaughlin Group Discusses Ending Marijuana Prohibition Video
        • McLaughlin Group Discusses Ending Marijuana Prohibition
      • Tony Budden on History and Myriad Modern-Day Uses of Cannabis
      • Marijuana, Untapped Healing Properties
        • The Science of Medical Marijuana Website
          • Monopolists in Miniature
        • Protecting Your Brain Using Marijuana
          • U.S. Government Patent 6,630,507, "Cannabinoids as Antioxidants and Neuroprotectants"
          • Jack Herer Describes His Mom's Improvement Over Alzhiemer's From Marijuana
          • Local6.com Reports Findings that Marijuana Benefits Alzheimer's Patients
          • Marijuana Regrows Brain Cells for Alzheimer's
          • Alzheimer's Cases to Nearly Double Every 20 Years
        • Cathy Jordan, ALS Patient, Sings Theme to Cops in NORML Ad
        • Retirees Demand Marijuana
        • Woman Buys Marijuana for Sick Aunt, Looses Job
        • Mother's Account of Giving Marijuana to Autistic Son
        • Patients for Medical Marijuana Website
    • Peyote
      • Challenging the Stereotypes of Peyote Use, by Krystle Cole
    • Treatment
      • Not the Christian Method of Treatment
      • Former Drug Addicts Find New Fixation on Triathlons
    • Prisons and Imprisoning
      • The Evils of For-Profit, "Private," Prisons
      • Stephen Colbert Chides U.S. Over Private Prisons
      • Lawyer Looks at "Defining a Proper Role for Prisons"
    • Ending Prohibition
      • Did Jesus say to bring things into the light, or to push things into the dark?
      • Post-Prohibition Problems Predicted
      • Drugs for Sale
        • Pressure for "Privatization"
        • Reason.tv Interviews Glenn Greenwald on Drug Decriminalization in Portugal
        • Rhode Island Senate Approves Marijuana Compassion Centers
    • Coca and Cocaine
      • Colombia's Stockholm Syndrome
    • Heroin
      • CNN Reports Britain Testing Heroin Treatment
      • U.S. Invades Afghanistan, Heroin Output Increases Over 5000%
    • Ibogaine
    • If something is legal it must therefore be perfectly safe and it means the government recommends everyone does it:
    • Judge Jim Gray's Top 10 Drug Policy Goals
    • Mushrooms
      • Johns Hopkins Medical School and Council on Spiritual Practices', Psilocybin Research
  • Failed Prohibitions
    • Introduction: The Problems with Prohibition
      • Drug War Tree and Fruit, a Flyer (version 0.9)
        • The Fruit of the War on Drugs is Mainly
      • Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Promotional Video
        • Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Blog
      • The Drug Czar is Required by Law to Lie
      • Drug Free America?
      • Calling for an End to Prohibition
        • Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper on Ending the Drug War
        • Clergy Speaks Out Against War on Drugs
        • Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Calls for Ending Marijuana Prohibition
        • CNN Reports Carlos Santana Advises "Legalize Marijuana"
        • Actress Megan Fox Says, "Legalize Marijuana"
        • Australian Newspaper, Herald Sun, "Prohibition Has Failed"
      • Get Rid of One Gang or Dealer, Another Takes Its Place
        • PBS NewsHour Reports on "Drug Lord" Job Opening and that Mexico Too is Crushing Citizens' Rights
      • U.S. to Rape Victims and Loved Ones, "We Care More About Hunting Down and Locking Up Every Last Drug User Than Your Alleged Rape."
        • 400,000+ Rape Victims Wait in Vain Due to Funding Drug War Instead of Finding Rapists
        • LAPD Makes Some Headway and Success in Testing Enormous Backlog of Rape Evidence Kits
    • Alcohol Prohibition 1917-1933
      • Alcohol Prohibition in Texas, a Brief Look
      • Mark Thornton, "Alcohol Prohibition Was a Failure"
      • Wall Street Journal: Prohibition: A Cautionary Tale
    • Help Educate the World's Drug Czar!
    • U.S. Works to Get Other Countries Addicted to Grabbing Money
    • Why Do Teens Deal Drugs?
    • Non-Drug Related Prohibitions
      • Failure of Dishwashing Detergent Prohibition in Spokane, Washington
      • UN Breaks with Common Sense and Encourages Laws Prohibiting Criticism of Religion
    • Humor
      • Lipstick Declared Illegal!
      • Sucrose (Sugar) Declared Schedule 1 Substance -- "Rock Candy" a National Menace
      • Wanted: God, for Creating Illegal Plants!
      • Drug Warrior Nightmares of Being Forced to Eat Granola
  • Interviews
    • Reverend Dean Becker Interviewed
    • "Cannabis Oil, A Cure for Cancer? You Decide," Joe 'Ironman' Siler
      • Ironman Part 1, Learning He Had Cancer
      • Ironman Part 2, Learning About Cannabis Oil
      • Ironman Part 3, Using Cannabis Oil
      • Ironman Part 4, Reflections and Lessons Learned
      • Ironman Part 5, The Photographs
        • Photograph - 2008-06-21
        • Photograph - 2008-06-23
        • Photograph - 2008-07-20
        • Photograph - 2009-02-16
        • Photograph - 2009-08-30
        • Photograph - 2009-09-03
        • Photograph - 2009-09-20
        • Photograph - 2009-09-25
        • Photograph - 2009-09-30
        • Photograph - 2009-10-18
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      • Garbage Out is Sin, Not the Garbage In
      • Humans Forcing Human Rules on Others Worship God in Vain
      • One Witness Alone is Not Sufficient
      • Crushing the Needy in Court
      • Paul on Food, Thanksgiving, and Latter Times
      • Plants and Wine, Gladden the Heart and Make the Face Shine
      • Green Money and Green Leaves, the Dead Versus the Living
      • Fear-Spreaders, Devoid of Reason
      • Seek and Find
      • What Makes You Great, or Not
    • The Illegal and Unconstitutional
    • Nixon on Dishonesty in Government
    • Conflict of Interest and Being Stubborn
    • Fooling People
    • Power Wedded to Fear
    • Kennedy on Liberty and Learning
    • MLK on Guided Missiles and Misguided Men
    • Make Money Your God and it will Plague You Like the Devil
    • Saved from Thinking: Doubt Everything or Believe Everything
    • The Dalai Lama's "No Lose" Strategy
    • Their Own Worst Enemies
    • Baffle Them With Baloney
    • Tom Sawyer Tactic
    • Communion with God
    • Drug Prohibition -- The World's Most Overarching Bloodbath
  • Books
    • Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?
    • We Really Lost This War - Twenty Five Reasons to Legalize Drugs

Quotes

Fear is nothing but the failure to use the help that reason gives. When you lack the confidence to rely on reason, you give in to fears caused by ignorance.

— Solomon
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Home › Analyzing Drugs and Problems › Objections to Ending Prohibition

Social Objections to Ending Prohibition

Sun, Mar 8, 2009 - 7:09 pm — Thinking CAP

When discussing ending prohibition people raise social concerns.

Social objections will be itemized on this page or on pages under this page.

  • "Isn't Marijuana Addictive?"
  • "What About the 'Gateway Theory' That Says All Marijuana Users Go On to Hard Drugs?"
  • Look at the Damage Caused by Alcohol. Do We Really Want Marijuana Legalized?
    • Driving a Car
  • The Children
    • Legalizing Drugs Sends the Right Message to Teens
    • The Need to End the Stigma of Drugs -- Stigmatizing Drugs Encourages the Rebellious to Try Them
    • Will Ending Prohibition Make it Easier for Children to Obtain Drugs?
  • The Evil Lie Purporting That Marijuana is "Devil's Weed"
  • We Can't Control the Two Legal Drugs We Already Have
  • What Would Happen if Marijuana Were Decriminalized? Professor Joel W. Hay
  • Why Make More Mind Altering Substances Available?
    • Mind Altering Analysis
    • Repentance -- It's Mind Altering!
‹ Will Ending Prohibition Will Cost More Money Than It Collects? up "Isn't Marijuana Addictive?" ›
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