To me, the legal arguments are always the issue because it is only through the passage of man-made laws whereby we lose individual rights.
To think that I could go to jail for years simply for growing those plants! puLLEZE!
I will never understand how any conservative constitutionalist could argue FOR these laws.
I bought my teen-aged daughter a used car and shortly thereafter she was pulled over for a taillight that was out. They asked to search the car and she let them. They found a small butt from a marijuana cigarette on the passenger side floorboard. That cost her a night in jail and cost me $4000.
That's been some years ago but still steams my a$$!
My point is that if you only argue about laws which have been enacted or are proposed, you are getting close to agreeing that laws in and of themselves define rights.
Rights exist whether or not laws respect them or usurp them. The people like Robby boy, assert that rights do not exist for some, and that others that do not exist, (group rights) can be asserted. That is incorrect, not to mention liberal.