“What’s your point since you supposedly have no dog in this fight?”
My point is that I know personally some good people who died young, and know of even more, using drugs.
And you, by your own admission, have contributed to an illegal world that is marked by death and destruction to multitudes.
As the cliche has it, you can drink and not get drunk, but you can’t smoke dope without getting high.
Are you going to try to claim that getting high on dope bears no consequence whatsoever?
Many die young from the consequences of drinking - but we've rightly decided that banning alcohol is not the answer.
And you, by your own admission, have contributed to an illegal world that is marked by death and destruction to multitudes.
As have those who support the criminalization of non-rights-violating marijuana growing, sale, and use.
As the cliche has it, you can drink and not get drunk, but you can’t smoke dope without getting high.
If one drinks more than a ceremonial sip of a wine toast, one probably experiences relaxation - which is all many uses of pot are intended to do. Any distinction there is far to thin a reed on which to hang the regulated legality of one versus the complete illegality of the other.
Are you going to try to claim that getting high on dope bears no consequence whatsoever?
What a silly straw man - using alcohol, tobacco, or bacon double cheeseburgers do not "bear no consequence whatsoever".