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"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.

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

Oh, you're asking me if I thought Prohibition was unjust? Of course it wasn't unjust. The people actually voted for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to implement it. Please tell me why you think that action was unjust. Can you? Can you really?

No, you can't. Prohibition was a mistake -- an unpopular law that lasted a mere 13 years. The people recognized their mistake and corrected it. For you to look back on that decision and call it an overturning of an injustice is totally unfounded and just plain wrong.

"But to automatically equate the two is folly."

I did this?

"And I submit that controlling someone's lift to the extent that drug (and other) laws do is profoundly wrong and unjust."

Nobody is "controlling" anybody's life. Nice try. If you choose to use drugs, there's a penalty.

What's wrong and unjust is a minority of the people attempting to force the rest of us to protect their supposed "right" to immoral, hedonistic, selfish and destuctive behavior. How is that "just", forcing me and my family to live next to drug addicts and drug dealers?