[tpaine]

--- you say that if I speed or if I drive while intoxicated I can be arrested and have my liberty taken away.

Granted, if I harm someone while speeding or while intoxicated, I should be punished.
But if I'm not harming anybody, why should I be arrested?

And if we can write laws which cover behavior that is potentially harmful, the why can't we write laws against drug use?
33 -rp-


How many times can you be told, rp?

DUI on a public hiway is a threat to everyone on or near the road.

Getting stoned or intoxicated in private threatens few.
We can handle that risk, rather than violate individual liberty & privacy.
And, -- rather than face the known evils of prohibitions.

Give up your idiocy about trying to regulate the private conduct of your peers.. Why do people think that they need to control others? ---

---- "The utterly insufferable arrogance of power, and the need for it, is an absolute fact of the human condition. -- Nothing can be done about it. - Just as the poor shall always be with us, so shall we have these infinitely shrewd imbeciles who live to lay down their version of 'the law' to others."

[robertpaulsen]

"Getting stoned or intoxicated in private threatens few."

You cannot guarantee me that a stoned doper is going to stay indoors, no more than I can guarantee you that a speeder won't get into an accident. How can you make such a ridiculous statement?

Just like a DUI or speeder may injure himself or others, so may a person on drugs, indoors or out. Drug users overdose and die. Drug users rob and steal to feed their habit. Drug users are a drain on the medical system.

Now, maybe that's a small percentage of drug users. But it's only a small percentage of licensed and insured (by law) DUI and speeders that harm others.