And if you HAD gotten in trouble with something associated with your imbibing of libations, would you then be questioning the right or wrongness of said libations being legal? Would the trouble be due to the libations, or to YOU?
And if you hold the drinker rather than the alcohol responsible for the accidents and violence and harm connected to alcohol use ... why would you hold a literal weed that can grow wild nearly anywhere, responsible for the trouble a lazy, hedonistic, poorly-disciplined amoral person gets into after smoking it? Or do you think it was the weed that made the person that way?
So if you want to outlaw weed, fine -- but isn't it supremely hypocritical not to call equally for outlawing alcohol? And isn't it supremely hypocritical not to outlaw guns and booze for all because some people abuse them, but to enthusiastically outlaw, on the same premise, a weed that will grow all by itself in a friggin' abandoned vacant lot?
I don’t know if I care near as much one way or another as I used too. I know two types of pot users. So my opinion is based on life observations of folks I know starting back in college.
One type has tried it and may do it every rare now and then but rarely to never “buys” it. The other keeps it stocked and spends a good amount of time and energy finding it, using it and hiding it. The latter of the two types would be the equivalent of alcoholics I suppose. I’m not suggesting one is better than the other. But I have never known an individual in the latter category that restricted their drug use to marijuana. And I’ve known several. The most ambitious of these folks seem to get “into the business” to support the their own use. Acid, cocaine, heroin, opiates, prescription drugs, rufies, etc.
I don’t want my kids dabbling. They might like it. I avoided it and will advocate the same. I worry about the influence (same as misuse of alcohol) it has on society. I counter the influences with aggressive and loving parenting. Otherwise, I think the devolution of our society helps reduce the competition to succeed in America. Personally, there are a great many more important things that need to be debated. Whether or not to waste time prosecuting pot sales and use is not my most important political topic. It’s easier for me to just be against it.