Kevin_Kennedy
Defend Liberty
- Aug 27, 2008
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Technically speaking, neither.It is not the smoking of the joint it is the possession of the joint. Now if you were a judge or a congressman or a famous banker they may not make such a big deal about it. Remember, the elite are not bound to the same standards as the poor or middle class. I don't think that anyone smoking a few joints now and then belongs in jail or much less in court. I agree it is a personal choice. Alcoholics say drinking is legal and it has no effect on others lives if they do it in their own homes. Not true. There are thousands of children who are now grown that suffer from the effects of their alcoholic parents. I have known and do know them personally. Alcohol fetal syndrome children who grow into adults collect SSI as they are considered disabled. We all foot that bill from someone else's freedom of choice that they made twenty, thirty years ago.
You can be arrested for being high. So we once again come to the question, who owns you? You, or the government?
You don't believe you own your own body?