Great points! I would also like someone who favors federal regulation of narcotics to tell me where in the Constitution the federal government derives the power to regulate what substances an adult citizen can or cannot consume.
Sure, drugs are not good for people. However, alcohol, tobacco, fatty foods, and numerous other LEGAL things are not good for people either. Either the government has the right to regulate our behavior for our own good or it does not. I would argue that it does not.
BTW,
Don’t give me any arguments that legal drug use would lead to increased crime. Legal alcohol use or legal tobacco use does not lead to such increases in crime. Even if true, then such crimes should certainly be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Alcohol leads to a lot of criminal behavior. Just go to areas with a lot of bars and partying on weekends. There are increased incidences of assaults and sometimes homicides due to alcohol consumption. There are also drunk drivers who injure and kill people as a direct result of alcohol consumption. We still don’t criminalize the actual consumption of alcohol; we criminalize the behaviors that are caused by that consumption. Why should other drugs be treated differently?
They are all government regulated to some degree, aren't they?
I don’t think that Goetz was busted by the feds was he?
Is this now, yet another doper thread?