You characterize it as harmless, but virtually every pot smoker I know is a worthless bum upon which the rest of us have to spend money to cover his room, board and medical care. And this doesn't address the ones that do stupid things which get other people hurt... and that's with the small amount of usage currently going on!
Of course, if you're not assessing based on harm, then what are your laws going to be based on - your personal morality? We happen to have a Constitution based on personal freedom. Does that piss you off?
No we don't, and no it doesn't because it's not true. It was based on then recognized concept of Natural Law and the principles of the Christian Religion. It was never intended to Indulge hedonistic drug usage or bizarre sex practices. That is a modern day misrepresentation of the ideas on which the US Constitution was founded. A Christian based Morality system was assumed as a given, not as a "take it or leave it" buffet.
Because if you're going to throw out harm as the evaluative variable...
Not at all. Am pointing out that you cannot point to one harm as justification for another.
But on the other hand, there's a billion Muslims...
Who are going to take over if you people get your way because they will be a United Force fighting against the anarchy you created. We've already seen this movie. It's Called "China, 1930". You're "Brave New World" will last until the first gentle blow from the forces of barbarism already knocking at our gates.
EVALUATION and COMPARISON of harm is literally how the world works.
Every single decision every human being makes is based on these principles, for the simple reason that everything can be harmful in some way.
Your lie is so big, so brazen, and so absurd it destroys everything yuo base on it - which is everything you're saying here.
This is your Big Lie. It's actually so big, it's obscene. Because every decision every human being has ever made, and ever will make, is made through the comparison and evaluation of harm. Every one. The reason being that everything is, one way or another, harmful. And so the extremity of one harm is INDEED used to justify, or not justify, another harm, all the time - constantly.
You have no moral position in this matter. Zip. And even worse, you know it.