[ConservingFreedom]

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Your Burke quotation establishes that marijuana legalization "has nothing to do with freedom" only under the baseless assumption that all marijuana use is "intemperate."

[Finny]

You are so correct in the peanuts and milk analogy. That otherwise righteous sensible conservatives are so emotionally wrapped up in their own PRIDE in what they presume is MORAL SUPERIORITY that they will willfully blind themselves to truth AND lie about good people ...

... is heartbreaking.

They are as arrogant and tyrannical as any and all leftists, only worse because they LIE with accusations of extreme moral depravity (wanting to legalize incest, pornography, child sex, gay sex in public places, etc. etc. etc.) about their own FRiends. Truly, they are wicked in what they do here, and they use the Lord's name in vain.

They are far, far creepier and despicable, with less honor and respect for human dignity, than the drug addicts they mistakenly consider their moral inferiors.

Threads like this show how and why any political party they are affiliated with becomes the STOOOPID party.