[robertpaulsen]

"Explain to me why government prohibition of the consumption of alcohol is just?"

Alcohol is legal. Do you mean the government prohibition of the sale of alcohol to minors? You're saying that's unjust?

"Further, explain how taking a person's freedom for smoking a dried weed serves justice?"

So you're suggesting that people who smoke dried weeds are thrown in prison? A bit over-the-top today, eh?

People who smoke marijuana are breaking the law. NOT arresting them makes a mockery of the law and does not serve justice. Do you believe in the rule of law? Or not?

[LIConFem]

"Alcohol is legal. Do you mean the government prohibition of the sale of alcohol to minors? You're saying that's unjust? "

No, I meant what I said, in reference to prohibition.

"People who smoke marijuana are breaking the law. NOT arresting them makes a mockery of the law and does not serve justice. Do you believe in the rule of law? Or not?"

Yes, I believe in the rule of law, but if you truly believe that the law always = justice, you're pretty naive. The law is the law. Justice is justice. To the extent that the two intersect, great. But to automatically equate the two is folly. And I submit that controlling someone's lift to the extent that drug (and other) laws do is profoundly wrong and unjust.