You see, posts like yours are the root of one of my greatest lingering doubts about legalization.
You see, you say I’m a hypocrite because I was OK with the dangers of legal cigarettes, but willing to ban marijuana because of its dangers.
BUT I NEVER SAID THAT.
What I said was that comparing the dangers of alcohol and the dangers of marijuana was not a fair comparison. In fact, I could have been 100% pro-legalization and made the exact same argument, in the same way that I’ve taken some of my fellow pro-lifers to task for making fallacious arguments.
I see this sort of thing every time I read an FR thread on drugs. And I’ve found that when a lot of people on a side of an issue have the firm conviction that everyone who disagrees with them is a hypocrite who hates freedom, they are usually on the wrong side.