So no drunks have ever been arrested for drunk driving, but marijuana puts alcohol in your system? And regardless of whether a substance is legal or not, it is very illegal to operate a vehicle in an unsafe manner
Oh, gee. Woe is me. Not the twist my words into something I didn't say and try to defeat the strawman tactic. Nooooooooooo. (/sarcasm)
No one is saying drugs are harmless, just that a) things that are perfectly legal are more dangerous than those that are not and b) it's not the government's job to stop you from harming yourself, unless you live in the Soviet Union
Things that are legal can be dangerous. I hope you didn't have to get a degree to figure that out. I could have saved you the time, stress and money and pointed that out readily. Problem is, the circumstances in which they would be dangerous are largely ACCIDENTS. Drugs being dangerous to the people round about the users and the user's themselves is not accidental, it goes with the territory. That's falacy number one.
Your point b is falacy number two. For the second, third, fourth or how many ever times it's been said and ya'll have read right on past it, I didn't say it's the governments job to protect you from you. What I did say is that it is the governments job to protect me from morons out there that do drugs and may wreck my life with their behaviors derived from that abuse. It's not my job to try to understand and coddle everyone that wants to destroy their lives and the lives of people around them by the behavior they espouse because they are addicted to drugs or habitually using them. If people want to "escape" reality with illegal drugs, they can escape to Jail away from the insippid hassle of society and try to be understood there. Or, they can act like human beings, get with the program and learn something in life instead of caving to drugs and wandering off into a good time of escapism, self pity or what have you. In any case, I don't have to put up with it. I don't mind helping people that want help. But poor people won't suddenly become wealthy enough to stop stealing to support their habbits just because the drug has been legalized, not that this would be an only concern - it's just one of many impacts drugs have which you would have us believe will just magically dissappear into your utopian dreamstate with legalization..
Tetrahydrocannibol is not chemically addictive (although smoking marijuana, like gambling or washing your hands, can be psychologically addictive) like nicotine is. If that's your logic when do you propose we criminalize tobacco?
Not hardly. When Tobacco starts having the same effects as THC, you come see me. Till then, there's no good reason to legislate against nicotene. Nor is there any honest comparison. Rather it is a highly dishonest comparison that you guys milk for how it appears on it's face. Tobacco is addictive therefore it must be bad. That isn't the reason Pot is illegal, now is it. Nope. There are a pile of factors that go into making pot illegal. So start comparing apples with apples. Even alcohol doesn't have the effect that pot has - no comparison. Sorry. The problem you have is there is no comparison that is honest so you have to rely on dishonest arguments to make the case you don't have to begin with. IE Pull the other one.