Why do some people insist on portraying very different things as exactly alike? Are you seriously going to argue that coffee and dope are the same in their consequences?
Whatever happened to intellectual honesty?
No, I was not arguing that they are alike.
Steve_Seattle was (implicitly) arguing that they were alike. I was merely taking the syllogism proposed by Steve_Seattle to its logical conclusion.
Steve_Seattle stated that marijuana can be "very bad for some people." The unstated premises are "Like things (coffee, t.v., and sunbathing - which are also 'very bad for some people') should be treated alike." Ergo, "Coffee, t.v., and sunbathing should also be criminalized."
I am, in effect, demonstrating the absurdity of this argument ("Reductio ad absurdum").
Regards,