Uhm, the people selling pot are just trying to make a living, just like the people selling booze.
If a customer screws up their life because of pot (or booze), it’s not the store’s fault; it’s the addict’s fault.
Maybe we should make booze illegal too so it doesn’t screw up people’s lives? Oh yeah, we tried that and it didn’t work either.
Maybe we should let the government tell us what’s good for us, and what’s bad for us so we don’t have to think or act like responsible adults.
Maybe we should go back to what made our country great; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If I puff on a doobie, how does that hurt you? Do you even know?
Like I always say, Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same dirty coin and some of the comments cheering the government’s overreach prove it.
Advocating for a nanny state? Why doesn’t it surprise me?
Advocating for a nanny state? Why doesn’t it surprise me?
Some people think "conservatism" means government pushing around different people than the liberals want government to push around.
Booze has been with mankind for 10 million years. That horse has left the barn, and does not justify allowing another brain damaging narcotic to destroy people's lives.
If a customer screws up their life because of pot (or booze), it’s not the store’s fault; it’s the addict’s fault.
It is a mind altering drug for which the uninformed have no defense. It directly and chemically interferes with will power, rendering self-will impossible.
Maybe we should let the government tell us what’s good for us, and what’s bad for us so we don’t have to think or act like responsible adults.
No, we shouldn't do that. But we should grant them every necessary power to deal with serious threats to the lives of our populace, such as those constituted by illegal drugs being used for recreation. It is the DUTY of government to deal with dangerous threats, and drugs are a dangerous threat.
Maybe we should go back to what made our country great; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If I puff on a doobie, how does that hurt you? Do you even know?
If you lived on some desert island and smoked your doobie, you would be no problem for anyone. The problem arises when you allow the knowledge of that drug use out to others in such a manner as to encourage them to try it.
Your advocacy is the first step toward wrecking other people's lives. Had they no knowledge of it, they would not be tempted to try it, but because people such as yourself insist on doing it, the chances that people will remain unaware of it are nil.
I have personally known over a dozen people who screwed their lives up because of drugs, and they all started with pot. Pot breaks people into the drug usage cycle. It normalizes what is a very dangerous habit and behavior, and it is that normalization that hides the threat to people ignorant of the consequences.
Advocating for a nanny state? Why doesn’t it surprise me?
No. I'm advocating for a functional nation that won't collapse into chaos the way China did 150 years ago when it legalized drugs. Legalized drugs caused the eventual deaths of 100 million people before the damage subsided.