[dcwusmc]

You may not be "rabid" but you seem to be right next door to it.

No one is talking about folks having some right or another to present a clear danget to others by driving or flying or any similar activity while under the influence of ANY substance, currently legal or otherwise, so you can quit beating that straw dog.

So the CRUX of the issue is this: do YOU, Che Chihuahua, have the legitimate authority to go to your next door neighbor and demand that he, on pain of being locked in your basement for five or ten years and having you steal his house, car and cash, either ingest or refrain from ingesting what YOU deem proper for him? If you think so, please let me know from whence this authority derives.

If you do NOT have this authority and yet you profess to believe that this is a nation of laws under the Constitution in which the government gets its (VERY LIMITED) authority from we, the People, how do you reconcile this disconnect? Unless you happen to think that we, the People, do NOT own our own lives, but are the property of government, to be ruled by our betters (of which you appear to think you are one) for our own good and to ensure that we do not damage government property... Is THAT what it is? Otherwise, what is your rationalization for the evil that is the War on Some Drugs?

You are, however, 100% correct in noting that freedom has a price... Just wrong in context. The price is the effort it takes to keep self-righteous jackasses from running roughshod over us in the name of protecting us from ourselves. If you think that describes you, well, you'd be the one to know either way.

[Che Chihuahua]

Calm down. I don't exercise vigilante justice nor do I wear Jackboots. Sorry to blow your little fantasy about my opposition to legalized drugs. But I do walk down the street in my neighborhood and where I work. I am confronted on a daily basis by dopers and others in their own little self centered world. Some are violently aggressive and others are just public charges. Straw dog indeed. And no I don't feel that I should have to move or change my job to allow for someone else's concept of freedom.

Maybe in your peaceful neighborhood and work location all of the people are Stepford citizens. But where's my right to a peaceful existence, while I mind my own damn business? I really don't give a damn what you or anyone else does to themselves until I have to make personal adjustments to maintain a peaceful life. But I guess I just have to put with the crap because your concept of freedom is more important than mine. That's some concept of equal protection under the law. Where do you get the authority to sanction such interference with MY freedom? Your ideas are fine if everyone acts as you probably would, but that isn't the reality I see on a daily basis.