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The replies split about as expected. Me, I’m for it, but keep DUI rules in place and let businesses fire you if you’re stoned. What you do on the weekends away from a steering wheel is nobody’s business but your own.

The WOD has been a major civil liberties disaster. Look at the Mexican gangs, look at civil forfeiture abuses by the cops. Legalization would take a lot of the funding and profit motivation away for abuses of the mostly (except for this) law abiding populace.


25 posted on 03/26/2010 11:38:02 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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The replies split about as expected. Me, I’m for it, but keep DUI rules in place and let businesses fire you if you’re stoned. What you do on the weekends away from a steering wheel is nobody’s business but your own.

"Let" businesses fire you if you're stoned?

I don't mean to be nit-picky towards you (sorry if it comes across that way), but that very word choice illustrates what is, IMO, the basic problem with his whole debate: lack of respect for Private Property Rights.

Private Property Rights are one of the cornerstones of Biblical Law. In the Bible, drunkenness (the particular form of intoxicant doesn't really matter) is a Moral Sin, but Trespassing is a Civil Crime. When did we get the idea that it's "okay" for us to bust down people's doors in the middle of the night and invade their property to prevent them from smoking a particular type of cigarette to which we might have a personal moral objection? Certainly not from the Bible. That's not "morality", that's Trespassing! It's not "conservatism", it's a sin!

But the exact same principle applies to the Private Property of owning your own business -- if it's your business, and you own it, then of course you have (and should have) the right to fire an employee if he's stoned, or for that matter even if you just don't like the color of his hair!!


39 posted on 03/26/2010 11:54:56 AM PDT by Christian_Capitalist (Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
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