“we aren’t all adults, we aren’t all rational, and some of us are quite dependent on others, often through no fault of our own.
Which is no argument for a drug ban on anyone other than those people and their caregivers. “
I disagree. Virtually all of us are parents and grandparents the greater part of our lives. Virtually all of us have dependent parents at some point. Our neighbors need to count on us being rational in any number of situations, as do our fellow shoppers, people at our workplace, and people at places of recreation. People who are retarded or crazy are liabilities and need special attention wherever they go.
If they aren’t making themselves retarded or crazy on purpose, I have no problem making allowances.
But if they are deliberately retarding themselves or making themselves irrational, they are affecting others virtually all the time. We can’t have the laws go in and out depending on whether Mr. Crackhead is asleep or awake, alone in the house or has a sick wife with him, driving down an empty road or a full one, working at a bank or working all by himself in a field, had a parent nearing dementia one day and over the line the next, sitting in a classroom or sitting in a cave.
Wherever you go, there you are. You don’t live on your own personal island.
We don't generally have legal obligations to our grandchildren nor our parents.
Our neighbors need to count on us being rational in any number of situations, as do our fellow shoppers, people at our workplace, and people at places of recreation.
No, they need to count on us being nondangerous, which is a considerably looser standard.
By the way, all your arguments apply to the drug alcohol - so what policies do you support regarding that drug?
You don’t live on your own personal island.
There's a reason liberals are so fond of that line; perhaps you should ponder that before embracing their argument.