Most people think that the DOE, ADA and AFDIC or constitutionally provisioned programs. An appeal to popularism is not persuasive here.
I didn’t say legalization reduces drug use. No knee jerking please. I said “If the money pored into drug enforcement was diverted into rehab and anti-drug promotion programs, I wonder if there would be more use.” If these programs were expanded, would they make up for the more open access to drugs? That’s not an abandonment of standards, just a search for a more effective and morally consistent way of maintaining them.
I explained in #25 why both Limbaugh and junkies are examples of weakness in the human condition, just different circumstances. I said junkies and Limbaugh were challenged with drugs in very different environments. That’s why if you isolate just that (absent of other character traits), neither can claim moral superiority. (Of course there are huge character differences that make a broader comparison silly.)
If you disagree, feel free to address the specifics of my explanation. But I don’t see the relevance of popular opinion, legal vs. controlled, pain management vs. escapism, or left wing conspiracies
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