[presidio9]

The laws are full of inconsistencies. The idea that society will be somehow more just if we legalize yet another damaging controlled substance is goofy. There's just no other word for it.

[MrLeRoy]

The laws are full of inconsistencies.

Shouldn't we do what we can to minimize them? Your argument seems to boil down to, "But, Ma, all the other kids are doing it!"

[lugsoul]

goofy? No, goofy is the idea that we have to "legalize" substances, as opposed to refraining from making them illegal and expending huge amounts of resources to maintain their illegality. Pot didn't grow out of the ground as an illegal substance, my friend. It was made illegal.

Also, goofy is the idea that criminal proscription of human behavior should not be based on some kind of universal notion of what is bad and what is not. Goofy is the idea that we should ban a substance because it is bad, but shouldn't ban other substances that are bad, with no reason stated for banning one and not the other. The reason you run away from that issue is because you can't reconcile the two.