I don’t exactly agree with the conclusion tho. There isn't really a conclusion, just uncertainty. I do not know if Marijuana constitutes a grave threat to our society or not. If it does, it will likely be indirectly through it's effects as a gateway drug or by inducing indolence. There is a chance that nothing of great consequence will happen.
About Crack and Meth i'm pretty sure. Allow that stuff and things will go for us much the way they went for China with Opium.
The problem is, they cannot be separated in terms of Libertarian philosophy. If people have a right to smoke pot, they also have a right to smoke meth or crack or heroin.
They will even have a right to smoke the latest Pharmaceutical slave maker, no doubt some sort of a derivative of Rohipnol or something.
Open the door to the legal manufacture of designer control drugs, and we will see something really significant. Open that door, and that is what will be coming through eventually.
Ketracel-white is a pretty good business plan.
” I do not know if Marijuana constitutes a grave threat to our society or not. If it does, it will likely be indirectly through it’s effects as a gateway drug or by inducing indolence. There is a chance that nothing of great consequence will happen.”
So far nothing of great consequence has happened and people have been smoking weed as long I’ve been alive.
“About Crack and Meth i’m pretty sure. Allow that stuff and things will go for us much the way they went for China with Opium.The problem is, they cannot be separated in terms of Libertarian philosophy. If people have a right to smoke pot, they also have a right to smoke meth or crack or heroin.”
I consider my personal philosophy pretty Libertarian but I don’t think people have the right to do anything they feel like.
That’s why there are laws, sadly plenty of laws tend to be idiotic.
I remember years ago I was passing thru Arkansas and wasn’t able to buy some item like scotch tape on Sunday because of the existing blue laws.
I think for a lot of people there’s still some leftover moral question regarding weed.
I also think that’s an uninformed moral question.
Do some people overdo it? Sure, and people also overdo video games, and fast food cheeseburgers.