[tpaine]

It can be tough if you like recreational drugs I guess.

Whats 'tough' to understand is the prohibitionist mentality. What drives some people to attempt to restrict their peers liberties?

Even Lincoln said the Constitution was not meant as a suicide pact.
What was the problem at that time with the Constitution that Lincoln had to say that?

Some people were so convinced that it was ethical to enslave their peers, -- that they abandoned constitutional means to resolve the issue.
-- Fanatics are like that I guess

[A CA Guy]

Right, slavery was at one time Constitutional (or at least perceived to be) and it had to be overcome.

There isn't anything good, smart or responsible about recreational drugs. Though some worship it like a sacrament of their faith, it is associated with the dark side of life.

Drug use, distribution, exposing children, becoming addicted, medically sick, psychologically sick, changing your brain chemistry, becoming a danger and draw on the rest of the good citizens are all not favorable to how the pro-recreational drug advocate is viewed IMO.