Inconsistent laws breed disrespect for all laws, so yes. Furthermore, we have tried prohibition twice, and both were spectacular failures. The first, the alcohol prohibition, was thankfully repealed. The second is the present drug prohibition, which is a spectacular failure by any metric. Money wasted, lives lost, rights eroded or destroyed, drug use, drug prices, drug availability ... they can't even keep drugs out of prisons.
You haven't thought that out very well.
If you support inconsistent laws, you are the one not thinking.
Alcohol and tobacco were indigenous in the culture before we had an FDA. Neither of those drugs would even be considered for approval if they were submitted for review today.
Marijuana was also indigenous and even widely used by this nation's founders before the FDA. Your point being ... ?
We are on the breaking point.
Advocating responsible and moral behavior is my position. I don't believe you fully understand the effects of what you want.
I guess by that logic since there is rape in prison we should legalize that, too. Here's an idea: Why not try to use Constitutional arguments instead of moral-liberal social-Darwinist ones? Do you, too, favor Pax's drivel that those who do not plant marijuana should be prosecuted for criminal drug evasion? Are you in favor of a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the prohibition of recreational drugs?
That's not what was said. patriciaruth said marijuana was never part of our culture, which is correct.
In the 60's, marijuana use became part of the sub-culture and was never accepted into mainstream America. Still isn't.