Taking the marijuana trade out of the hands of violent international narcotraffickers who kill people in South America and Mexico so Americans can get a buzz and putting it in the hands of regulated American corporations would prevent those people from getting killed. Or at the least, from America having a role or being a factor in their deaths.
People who take legal prescription drugs often end up having mental illness, decreased intelligence, heightened emotions. People who drink to excess too.
Hell, professional, semi-pro, even high school athletes often end up suffering mental illness and decreased intelligence as a result of sports injuries and head trauma. But you're not trying to outlaw football and boxing.
We don't make everything potentially bad for you illegal. Doing so is the definition of a nanny state, is antithetical to freedom and liberty, and diametrically opposed to conservatism and calls for small government.
Put simply, no. Alcohol is not illegal, but driving under the influence of it is. NyQuil is not illegal, but driving under the influence of it is. Texting is not illegal, but driving while engaging in it is. The solution to the problem of an activity or substance's side effect on driving is to criminalize driving while under the influence or engaged in the activity, not to criminalize it period. We do this with everything else, because it makes sense, there's no reason the same doesn't apply to pot. Smoke it in the privacy of your own home, carry small amounts on your person, but don't be publicly intoxicated or operate a motor vehicle under its effects, just like alcohol or a variety of other legal substances.
That's all we need. This country is in deep shit as it is, so why the hell do we need to legalize another weapon for people to blow their head up with? What a moronic notion.
I have a better idea. Instead of making one more gun for people to explode their brains with legal, how about we make a gun that's legal, ILLEGAL? I think we need to saften this country up more than we need to FUCK it up. People are stupid enough already in this country. Look who we have for a President.
It's the same stupid argument.
Guns have the potential to be extremely dangerous. They're responsible for more than 10,000 deaths a year in America, compared to marijuana's 0 ever. However, when used responsibly by adults, they are not dangerous, so people are free to own them.
The government has no right to tell citizens what they can and cannot possess so long as that possession is not infringing on the rights of others. I thought that was called liberty. Isn't more personal freedom, individual responsibility, and less government intervention what conservatives say they believe in?
Longterm physical health effects of marijuana smoke are fairly minimal and drastically less harmful than cigarette use or alcohol abuse, which are both legal. By your logic, if people shouldn't be allowed to engage in behavior that may harm their health and force you to pick up the tab in a semi-socialized health care system, then alcohol and cigarettes should be outlawed too. Not to mention fatty foods and various other more potent detrimental chemicals people have noted.
Studies find that the significant majority of people who use marijuana also use alcohol and no other illicit drugs. The percentage of marijuana users dwarfs the percentage of users of all other illicit substances, even combined. So it's factually incorrect to state that "People that use [marijuana] tend to use other drugs and they typically don't do so in moderation." Simply factually false.
I agree with this logic. What follows from it is that we should not get the government involved in dictating our personal consumption choices and they should leave themselves the hell out of our private lives, rather than say kicking in doors with weapons drawn to collect a few plants and send someone to jail for smoking them.
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