The response to the article [editorial] "Finance the Bailout: Legalize Weed" was published on 4-29-2009. The author feels that legalizing marijuana for tax dollars has a larger moral cost to it. The reasons that the author gives for not legalizing marijuana are that marijuana leads to harder drugs, marijuana is a harmful substance, and that there would still be other drugs.

For some people marijuana leads to harder drugs, for others caffeine, alcohol, or prescription medication leads to other drugs.

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