“So we should enact laws banning the inebriating drug alcohol as well - right?”
Every day, 29 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This is one death every 50 minutes. The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $44 billion.
https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html
Please re-read the article. They are not banning marijuana, or alcohol. They are enforcing the laws in place to protect other citizens from the harmful aftermath of people who do not police themselves and stay sober when doing things that get others harmed or killed, like driving.
They have failed all the way along in trying to ban drugs of any type as the people just ignore the laws and the safety of others. If it was up to me, I’d determine any drug that changes the ability to function in a safe manner to a controlled substance and only give it to those that medically need it. Giving in to it was why they couldn’t ban alcohol even with a Constitutional amendment (18th) which they chose to repeal (21st) because people just broke the law for recreation. And there have been over 10,000 people a year killed by an impairment result in the 2000’s.
Do I think banning or better controlling a product for recreation that has killed that many people should be accomplished? You be the judge, but try to guess how a parent will react when they are told their kid was killed by a drunk driver, or a grass fed one. They were sold as no different to get them legalized. They should offer the same penalties for their improper and, in too many cases, illegal use. And the only reason an impaired person would get into a car to drive is stupidity. They know they ingested, they know the drug is designed to do this and is used specifically for that purpose, and they know they are a danger as soon as the car moves. So you want to leave the decision up to people that too many have already proven they won’t act humanly? The inmates running the asylum.
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So we should enact laws banning the inebriating drug alcohol as well - right?
Every day, 29 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. [...] They are not banning marijuana, or alcohol.
Your previous subject was "making the stuff legal", not DUI laws. I support DUI laws 110% percent - and in fact support stiffening the penalties actually applied; too many drunks get repeated slaps on the wrist before killing someone.
They have failed all the way along in trying to ban drugs of any type [...] they couldn’t ban alcohol even with a Constitutional amendment (18th) which they chose to repeal (21st) because people just broke the law for recreation.
Agreed.
Do I think banning or better controlling a product for recreation that has killed that many people should be accomplished?
I'd love to see it accomplished, but blanket bans are a proven failure - and aggravate other grave problems, primarily the enrichment of violent criminals, with all the ills that entails.