This article is ridiculous. Americans have “contempt for hard drug use”...
NO THEY DON’T. Look at this pathetic waste of space Glee star who killed himself with drugs, he’s venerated, adored.
I came to a compromising stand a year ago. I think drugs that are physically addictive (i.e heroin and coke) should be regulated by the feds, and other drugs like pot, LSD, ecstasy, should be left up to the states to decide what they want to do. If Colorado thinks their state is better now, then so be it. If Louisiana thinks their state is better off without stoners being vindicated by state law, then so be it. That should be up to the STATES.
As side notes.
The comparison to alcohol and tobacco I find to be fallacious. Tobacco does not intoxicate you or hinder your inhibitions in any way. It does not stop you from driving or performing any other task as you go about your daily functions, although it is incredibly unhealthy and I wouldn’t recommend it. Alcohol on the other hand, while potentially destructive, is not used typically to get wasted, but rather as a drink like any other that we might enjoy at Applebees or at a baseball game. People who do use alcohol to intoxicate themselves, beat their wives and such are recognized as societal nuisances. I’ve never seen anyone smoke a joint or do a line of coke without the intention of getting high.
I am also sick of this ‘medicinal’ crap. People who go to these medicinal marijuana clinics should cut the BS, and just admit they want to get high. Even Greg Gutfeld has called out this farce and he’s very pro-legalization.
All that being said, the drug war has cost a countless sum of money, and has drawn attention away from more serious crime.
I also find we’re hypocritical if we have kids being told homosexual sex is A-OK, but pot is bad, when clearly the former is by far more destructive to you.