Pilgrims came to America to get AWAY from tin pot despots like you and the government control you espouse.
“In my America, I need to be left alone.”
Would you live off the land? What’s your plan?
“In your amerikkka, you need to hire armed thugs to control other people to conform with your moralistic utopian ideals.”
Well, then I’m sure you’ll be able to draft a picture of my ‘moralistic utopian ideal’.
Personally, I think you’ve got your own Utopia - a Utopia of you. Have you read Kropotkin?
“You and our community organizer would get on well together.”
Seeing as I believe in government regulated by the constitution and not the inverse, I can’t see why we’d get along.
“Why not make sugar a controlled substance?”
People eat it for nutrition not to get high.
“More people die from diabetes in a day than have died from cannabis intoxication”
And more people use sugar every day than smoke cannabis. Your point?
“There’s a man with a sixpack of Pepsi, he must be a dealer.”
I’ve walked out of my front door, and seen dealers in the playground pushing dope on kids. So yeah. I don’t have any sympathy for dope pushers.
“Pilgrims came to America to get AWAY from tin pot despots like you and the government control you espouse.”
Tell that to the community that has to lock their doors and stuff so that the pushers and dope addicts don’t steal to feed their habit.
When sugar addicts start smashing my window to get their latest slurpee, then we talk about making sugar a controlled substance.
Why not make sugar a controlled substance?
The Statists are working on it.
More people die from diabetes in a day than have died from cannabis intoxication since the time the world cooled.
My personal opinion is that the Government has no right to regulate what goes into the body of a consenting adult. By the same token, the individual should not be able to use the effects of a substance as a mitigating circumstance should they commit a crime under its effects.
We can see the mess historically from alcohol prohibition, how that despite the claimed intent of impeding the social decay that was blamed on alcohol, the advancement of vast and brutal criminal organizations was in fact facilitated by the ban, and if anything, the use of the substance continued unabated.
So it is with the war on drugs, and with the Cartels, and with the corruption which persists, even at very high levels in our government, else the Southern Border would not remain wide open despite the honest efforts of a few.
Our own government agencies have been involved in criminal transactions arming the Cartels, and have laundered money for them, in apparent violation of their oaths to uphold our laws.
This neither 'provides for the common defense, nor promotes the general welfare.
More laws have failed, just as more firearm laws have failed to reduce criminal activity involving firearms.
All the laws have succeeded in doing is removing billions from the tax base, and provided yet more excuses to erode the practice of other fundamental rights to life, liberty, and property, not to mention fostering the corruption and usurpation of power which continues to pervade all aspects of our society.