That broad generalization appears to be the justification for regulating human nature and all sorts of human behaviors, such as is done with gun control or alcohol prohibition. I'm sure you can come up with many others, good, bad and ugly.
I prefer the form of freedom that is based upon individual responsibility, with individuals accepting the consequences for their own actions, over the police state that regulates freedom and mandates "state accepted" human behaviors and can then violate the Bill of Rights whenever it feels so justified.
Fwiw,
Early history (pre-1850s)The Virginia Company, by decree of King James I in 1619, ordered every colonist to grow 100 plants specifically for export. Thus, England's only colony in America began to grow hemp in order to meet this obligation and, soon, to serve a growing demand in other colonies.
George Washington grew hemp at Mount Vernon as one of his three primary crops.
The use of hemp for rope and fabric was ubiquitous throughout the 18th and 19th centuries in the United States.
Medicinal preparations of cannabis became available in American pharmacies in the 1850s following an introduction to its use in Western medicine by William O'Shaughnessy a decade earlier in 1839.
I think it's interesting how we in the land of the free have gone from one pole of acceptance to the other poles of criminalization and regulation about plants like marijuana and tobacco.
Too bad we've failed at regulating our need to regulate, control and criminalize based upon the whims and loud voices of a few.
I am well familiar with what Libertarians claim to believe. It is an ever present tendency in them to disregard any consequences for these beliefs that is not instantly and proximately causal to injuries sustained. They simply ignore the damage to others.
Too bad we've failed at regulating our need to regulate, control and criminalize based upon the whims and loud voices of a few.
If only it were about people's desire to regulate. I know Libertarians constantly assert that it is, but as I said earlier, they constantly disregard any proof that it isn't. They simply will not acknowledge that the pursuit of certain indulgences harm other people.