Sure appears that way. Treating everyone like kindergartners who needs the Nanny State to ‘nudge’/control the little helpless tikes. Who needs responsibility and letting natural outcomes for bad decisions or over-indulgence?
We can have Big Brother swatting us (literally SWATTING people/shooting folks and pets) if they suspect someone is smoking something ‘not allowed’.
I wonder how much money gets into government pockets and individual politicians too in the name of the drug war.
P.S.
Who am I kidding? Look what big government done to cigarette smokers. They have successfully, with their ‘nudging’ and laws, isolated cigarette smokers to be treated as sub-human mutant lepers. Note, I am NOT a cigarette smoker. But can’t believe how we have all allowed their rights to be trampled on.
Now, we do the same with Soda, fats, sugar. And we hear stuff all the time about alcohol.
Once we allow what we consume to be dictated so aggressively, we really lose our rights to consume anything considered ‘unhealthy’. Some might say good. But remember what they did about butter, coffee, chocolate, and others. You just can’t let some ‘expert’ (government dictated authority) makes all these decisions for us. That is just plain crazy.