article_snippet.sent: I think it should be legal [and] I think it should be more widely available for medical reasons.'
article_snippet.sent: Rene says that one argument for legalizing the drug is knowing what you're getting when you buy the drug; Rene explains that when people get the drug on the street, people don't always know what people marijuana has been cut with.
article_snippet.sent: Sometimes their marijuana can be mixed with more dangerous substances.
article_snippet.sent: While they disagree on whether it's a gateway drug - Robert notes that every heroin addict started out drinking milk, implying that it's difficult to link the use of one product to another - they all seem to agree that legal repercussions for using marijuana do more harm than good. '
article_snippet.sent: It costs more to put someone in prison than It does to send someone to Harvard,' says Robert, suggesting that sending people to prison for marijuana possession or distribution is a wasteful drain on society.
article_snippet.sent: As far as I can remember, I never arrested anyone for it, but I took a lot of pot away from people and threw it away in front of people,' says Rene, adding that Rene thought that Rene personal punishment was a bigger deterrent than writing people a citation.
article_snippet.sent: Pot partakers: Rene, left, says Rene never wrote a criminal citation to someone with marijuana, but would throw out Rene, left drugs in front of Rene, left; while Rene served, it was illegal in every state .