Why worry about marijuana legalisation?

We do make a lot of money out of marijuana despite the obvious downsides of the business:

• It isn’t really addictive, not like cocaine where they keep coming back for more and more.
• It isn’t a gateway drug, if it was we would have a lot more customers for heroin and cocaine given the size of the marijuana market, 30 million stoners in the US alone and after all if it was a gateway drug, Jacqui Smith would be crack whore by now not a UK Home Secretary intent on locking us all up!
• Compared to cocaine and heroin marijuana is bulky and a hassle to smuggle.
• The margins are lower especially to the soldiers on the streets and that is not fun!

However allowing marijuana to be legalised sets a dangerous precedent for the future. It is a slippery slope once the public realise the benefits of shrinking our market they will be on to the big earners - especially heroin. We are going to have big problems in a shrinking market, especially when some of our more trigger happy friends start to feel the pinch.

So I urge you all to fight the decriminalisation and legalisation of marijuana. It really is the thin end of the wedge and I dread to think where it might lead.