If you support the ban of marijuana, because of how people harm themselves with it, would you support the ban of everything else that people can harm themselves with? That's the question.
Second, what about the harm that prohibition itself causes? Is there any kind of cost and benefit analysis? Is there any concern about how the attempted enforcement of a prohibition increases the size, scope and power of government? Is there any thought to the question of whether the government could ever be successful in enforcing the ban? I believe it was William Buckley who said, 'if there is no solution, there is no problem'. Buckley advocated the re-legalization of drugs, including heroin, btw.
Just wondering here, I never see any discussion of this issues by the misguided conservatives, who have adopted the liberal/leftist policy of drug prohibition as there own. Does conservative mean 'adopting liberal policies a generation later, because they've been around that long'?
You don’t see any discussion about the merry-go-round of “the sky is falling” research papers from people like the RWJF that work closely with the bureaucrats that take those results to Congress to argue for more money and then use some of the money for more research grants.