Leftists want our guns so that we couldn't defend ourselves against tyranny.
That's all there is to it, kids? They don't give a shit... 50.000 die of drug overdoses yearly and they want more drugs.
Actually, nobody really wants more drugs, but legalization of marijuana isn't advocating for drugs because marijuana isn't a drug.
It's a plant.
And, if we legalized marijuana, it would reduce the amount of people using opiates for pain relief.
So since opium comes from a plant that's ok too? Is that how you justify drugs?
Actually, if you don't do anything to chemically refine the plant, it's not a drug.
If you want to chew cocoa leaves, go ahead. They help you keep alert and also help with O2 uptake at high altitude and are not physically addictive. However, refine them into cocaine, then you have made a drug and that should be illegal.
If you want to harvest sap from an opium poppy and smoke it, go ahead, it's still all natural and hasn't been chemically altered. Refine it into heroin or opiates, and you've just made a drug.
Plants aren't drugs, they are naturally occurring things that grow all by themselves. Drugs are things that are chemically created and refined by man to extract only the active substance.