” 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.
I'm sure a little water in the boat won't hurt anything. I believe water has been getting into boats for as long as I can remember. It's not like anything can happen if we get to a certain point.
By the way, i've read that people receiving government benefits now exceeds the population of citizens paying taxes. No worries there.
Do some people overdo it? Sure, and people also overdo video games, and fast food cheeseburgers.
The question is not "do some people overdo it?" The question is "Will a significant enough percentage of the population over do it?" "Will the percentage that causes us to reach a critical point change with economic conditions?"
A lot of people see the world as simple. I see it as a series of very complex interacting and often non-linear models. Sometimes you pull out or add a piece here and there, and the consequences end up being a LOT different from what you thought would happen.