ANOTHER SLIPPERY SLOPE ARGUMENT

Recently I read an article from MSNBC which said that medical marijuana is now a target of thieves.  "Critics say the heists and holdups prove that marijuana and crime are inseparable, though marijuana advocates contend that further legalization is the answer."  Click here for the whole article.

Naturally, our anonymous author has taken only two facts and made 'scientific' conclusions.  These two facts which   no one seemed to challenge, the fact that as long as marijuana is illegal, people will go out of there way and risk danger to steal.legal marijuana. Would there be less theft if there were legalized marijuana?  One might look back at the precedent since Prohibition was repealed.  Those who lack money seem not to attack the manufacturers but are more apt to rob the stores which sell it. 

Since marijuana is a hemp variety, it grows naturally and doesn't require a manufacturing plant.  One might speculate that no more would have the acreage to grow their own than those who would invest in illegal stills for making hard liquors.  What then would happen?  Those zealous souls who insist on being their 'brothers' keepers' would have less to control.  Traffickers would earn less since they wouldn't be able to inflate the costs.  Criminals would have to go into some other criminal activity...which has never seemed to be a problem for their ingenuity.  On the upside, the government would save a great deal of money since the cartels would cost us less in  revenue for American   ATF agents.  Since the zealots are more interested in controlling the activities of others, of which they disapprove, they are not concerned with cost to the taxpayers, i.e, government expenditures.  Politicians and law enforcement might earn less kickback monies.  The taxpayers might pay less for feeding corruption.  When will we, the taxpayer, reach the end of that road?  Will it ever happen?