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Could you stop referring to me in the third person, while posting directly to me? Its too odd.

Now I didn't mention regulating pit bulls. Interesting that you would go there. I illustrated the difference between reasonable fear and paranoia.

As you are dying for me to make a regulation analogy, I'll do it. I do not require proof of your particular dog biting to pass a leash ordinance. At the same time I'm not going to apply the leash ordinance to all pets, such as parakeets and rabbits. Indeed, I would even allow a service dog on an airplane, while forcing your pit bull to ride in luggage. This isn't paranoid, hypocritical, or arbitrary. Its called a sense of proportionality based on likely outcomes.

The jokes on you kid, Thanks Dad, does that mean everyone has to stop snickering at you. Am I grounded? Do I still get the car next Saturday night?

May I suggest that if you want to promote paranoid prohibitions about bestiality, incest, polygamy, religious human sacrifice (voluntary of course), etc... -- That you review our Constitutions 14th Amendment first?

And I thought you might actually back away from one of those. My bet was on bestiality, but each to his own. I can hear those converts stampeding to you right now.

You will find that both writing & enforcing such prohibitive 'law' violates due process, as prohibitions are repugnant to our basic Constitutional principles protecting life, liberty, or property.

Nonsense. As good measure, I'll throw in a prohibition against 300 pound women wearing thong bikinis in public.

Despite the fact that your entire argument is "read the 14th Amendment" and your particulars are so weak that no majority has agreed with them in 220 years, I'm going to throw you a bone.

If someone wants to grow or manufacture their own mind numbing chemicals for their personal consumption and not distribute them, then I can't see a reason to regulate it. As with beer (200 gallons), a reasonable limit could be set for what constitutes personal consumption. This would not disallow the Baker Act concerning people who's mental acuity becomes a serious danger to themselves or others, based on actual events.