“And no, deliberately altering your consciousness to this degree is NOT a victimless crime.”
So any time someone gets really drunk or takes one of countless Rx drugs that impair WAY more that pot, it should automatically be a crime?
How do you know the “huge majority” of Rx pill users aren’t also faking it and just trying to get high? I know several pharmacists and heard that is exactly the case with opiods and stimulants according to their ‘lying eyes’. They can’t prove anything though and speculating on people’s personal lives will hurt people who actually need the pills.
Instead of growing a nanny police state to speculate on every aspect of people’s private lives, wouldn’t it be more reasonable to only prosecute REAL crimes against actual people/property? i.e. Things like Murder, rape, assault and theft.
What we have now is a bloody slippery slope that will eventually lead to even “bad” thoughts being outlawed to “save” all of us from ourselves. Once you opened the barndoor of outlawing people eating their own plants on their own property, anything could be legislated. Even frickin lemonade stands...
Yes I think recreationally making yourself comatose, or irrational, or hallucinatory, is actually criminal. So there. You don’t live on an island.
If you are nodding or nuts or stupid or psycho through no fault of your own, we your family and friends and church and even state will fill in for you and try to help you out. It is wrong for you to get that way on purpose.
Add to that many are depending properly upon you in little ways ( your neighbor trusts you won’t leave the stove on) to big ways ( your kid needs you sane).
It is comfy for you to pretend that your actions don’t affect others but they do.