[astoundedlib]

"Right now, American society thinks that illegal drug use is a nuisance that infringes on their lives. That is your argument."

Good morning sir,
you are right on that point, which makes me wonder: why do they think that? Obviously, they hear stories on the media; they live bad experiences with drug abuses; for religious, well we know what the churches has to say on the matter; kids do not respect authorities anymore because of drug use...and the list goes on...

In the majority of these cases, "drug use" judgment is based on emotional patterns or in the most particular case of MJ, propaganda did a lot of harm on the rational knowledge of the dope... By that i mean: people would literally care less if pot smokers all died!!!

So there is a lack of balance somewhere with such "extreme" comments...That's why i do not advocate the legalization of all drugs anymore, it's too extreme, it doesn't leave any gray area...

So to pick up on your last comment, yes the problem right now would be to redraw the line and make people understand that drug use is not a plague but only normal to human being...Especially against MJ, where lying about it is pretty common, even in the scientific domain.

Best regards.

[SampleMan]

As you know, my primary point has been to argue against the principle that MJ cannot be regulated because it is a right, because it would open Pandora's box on all manner of conduct that does great harm to society with no balancing merit. In that I think we agree.

I think any particular drug should be looked at separately. The case for legalizing MJ as a regulated over the counter drug has some reasonable arguments. I think I have a bit of ignorance on both sides of that argument, and need to read more on it.