Since when have our laws been limited to activities that harm others? Nice strawman.
"As far as I can tell your argument rests on letting the bureaucracy decide what is good for us."
Nope. The people. And until your side gets enough people who want to legalize it, that's where it stays.
Probably never, entirely. More or less, in other times and places. It seems like a useful dividing line for proper vs improper laws.
And until your side gets enough people who want to legalize it, that's where it stays.
An "argument from authority" (majority rule)?
Might makes right?
I'll raise my straw man with your silly appeal to the masses.
No one ever VOTED to ban marijuana--it was a simple bureaucratic trick of classification, making it a "controlled substance." These same bureaucrats suck up billions in resources better spent elsewhere (like on the WOT or border control), aided and abetted by the tens of thousands of their lackeys who make their living at the public trough by prosecuting and jailing smokers.
If "The people" were allowed a vote on such a matter your point would make some sense; of course, to press for a vote on such a matter would perhaps expose someone to scrutiny that they don't want or need.
That you argue the DEA, FDA, BATF should have any say in the matter, further reveals your intellectual dishonesty.
But enough of arguing with you--I have a date.