Harry Dresden
Adamantium Member
Even if it did happen, aren't the cons the ones talking about small government not making our choices for us? Apparently they only meant government should only allow us to make the right choices and they should step right in when we don't.
I'm anti-pot. It may not be physically addictive, but it's certainly mentally addictive. However, I actually meant it when I said I want government should allow us to make our own choices, and I meant it if we make the right or the wrong ones...
Oh I'm with you, and don't really care if someone is anti-pot. That's your life. What I do have a problem with is when someone is anti-pot and wants to make it illegal for everyone else who might not be.
I will say though that marijuana is a fine alternative to drinking. It relaxes you, it generally will help you see things in new ways, it forces you to be introspective, and it really doesn't last all that long. If you ingest it, there are virtually zero negative physical side effects (unlike alcohol, which destroys the liver amongst other things).
Also, want to add that most GOOD things are mentally addicting (like reading a good book, or biking, or drawing, or making music, etc). Sex is addicting. Doesn't mean those are bad things; you just need to learn (like anything else) to do them in moderation.
Anyways, if you're against prohibition than we have no beef. Your life is your life.
I think all drugs should be legal, so as you said from that perspective we have no disagreement.
Just on the use of pot though, I would agree that for people who truly only smoke it on a Friday night with friends instead of drinking, I don't see a difference. However, it's a poor analogy to your examples of books, biking, ... For regular pot users, they are using pot to retard their natural mental development. I see people who use pot and say it's the same, but they smoke it in the morning and during the day on weekdays. Only serious alcoholics do that. Other than true, social pot smokers, I think pot smokers are deluding themselves.
However, again, that is not an appropriate choice for government any more than the decision to have cake and ice cream for dinner.
i dont know how many parties i went too were the people there were sitting in the living room smoking pot with maybe a beer or two or something else .....and how many Frat parties i went to where they had a Keg of Beer in the back and just about everyone was getting buzzed.....guess which one the cops got called too every time, because of the noise and sometimes because of the fights that broke out?.....