actions regarding marijuana insufficient

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n271/a09.html "the costs to taxpayers is staggering..." oh really? and you think it's okay to leave retired people, older relatives of addicted users paying for costs of these invalids, these marijuana addicts? the legalization of marijuana has been for the purpose of saving money! nothing more. and yet all we are left with is roughly the same money spent on these invalids, but in new ways. taxpayers still put up the money for the retired people, so where is the sense in all this? there isn't any!

to be clear, i don't think that legalizing it was necessarily a bad thing, but doing it was a decision made for the wrong reason.


*i initially posted this on facebook but that action annoyed someone so i'm reposting it here where i presumably get fewer viewers. i still want people to know that this is a failing of our government.

**the problem with marijuana seems to be linked to a misunderstanding of how marijuana works. i don't know a lot about it, but i know that some people are abusing it. i believe it is imperative for the medical community to do more research on this and broadcast their findings so that users don't wreck themselves incidentally so often.