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WHEREAS It is the right of all persons to be free, and

WHEREAS Government exists to protect that right, and

WHEREAS Freedom is all too often taken away for no good reason, and

WHEREAS When a crime has no ill effect on anyone besides the person who committed it, it should not be a crime, and

WHEREAS By now you probably realize that I am indeed talking about marijuana, and

WHEREAS I have never smoked and I never will, and

WHEREAS That is a personal choice, and

WHEREAS I should not make personal choices for people other than myself, and

WHEREAS The government definitely shouldn't make personal choices for anyone, and

WHEREAS I, or most people, have never been negatively impacted by someone else smoking marijuana, and

WHEREAS There is more reason to ban alcohol or cigarettes due to negative externalities than marijuana, and everyone agrees we shouldn't ban those, and

WHEREAS That is because when Prohibition was tried in the United States, it was an utter and spectacular failure that led to an increase in alcohol consumption and the rise of organized crime, and

WHEREAS We learned this lesson with alcohol, but few have seemed to learn that drug cartels are fueled by drug control laws, and

WHEREAS While drug laws don't succeed in stopping people from doing drugs or in stopping drug cartels, they do succeed in imprisoning thousands of people who didn't hurt anyone besides themselves, and in ensuring that now they will be unable to find a job after their release thanks to their criminal record, if you count that as success, which most people wouldn't, and

WHEREAS Even if you overlook the huge moral quandary that arises, it is still a huge waste of money, since the government has to pay to enforce the laws and imprison all of these people, and

WHEREAS That's not even considering all of the productivity lost when people are sitting around in jail for no good reason and then still can't work after their release, and 

WHEREAS I started this string of whereases with high-minded language about liberty for multiple reasons, and

WHEREAS One reason was to show that support for cannabis legalization can be defended from base principles, and that not everyone who thinks it should be legalized is a stoner, and

WHEREAS Another reason is to show that you don't have to be "socially liberal" in the macro-political world to support this cause, and

WHEREAS It's not really a secret that I am generally more conservative in macro-politics than most Talossan citizens, and

WHEREAS Nonetheless I still strongly support cannabis legalization, and

WHEREAS Our Giant Friendly Neighbor continues to move in the right direction on this issue, and

WHEREAS Let's give them a nudge


THEREFORE subsection A.1.6, which currently reads:
 

is amended to read: