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.
Well, no. That would be "majority rule", "mob rule", "might makes right". You'd certainly be against that!
"If "The people" were allowed a vote on such a matter your point would make some sense"
Again, this is not a pure democracy. We elect representatives who agree with our position. We let them know how we feel about specific issues. They write the laws.
"to press for a vote on such a matter would perhaps expose someone to scrutiny that they don't want or need."
What are you suggesting here?
"That you argue the DEA, FDA, BATF should have any say in the matter"
I have no idea what you're talking about. They have a "say" in the matter?