Pretty amusing in my eyes.
Why is marijuana bad? Because it's against the law.
Why is it against the law? Because it's bad.
Many of the issues concerning pot are close parallels to those concerning alcohol. Both in sufficient quantity can permanently damage health. Both can fatally react with latent medical conditions (although it would be difficult to outright poison a healthy person with pot). Both in customarily consumed quantities can create intoxication in which a person would be unwise to drive, operate heavy machinery, etc. Both if banned can lead to widespread and even international cottage industries of crime which can turn deadly.
The nation did make a go at banning alcohol and ultimately decided it wasn’t worth the hassle. Even in laxer times, however, many fewer people undertook to smoke pot than imbibed, and there is probably not a sufficient base of potential pot partakers to do more than possibly get marijuana back into the USP. (For those who object to “barbaric” smoke with its irritants and carcinogens, vaporizing equipment now exists.)
It is kind of odd to watch all of these anti-big government types advocating putting a 70’s-plus year old man in a cage for possessing a plant. And then they wonder why the government is so big in the first place.
Pretty amusing in my eyes.
Why is marijuana bad? Because it's against the law.
Why is it against the law? Because it's bad.
And if you ever doubt it, there's a totally factual documentary about it called "Reefer Madness".
/sarcasm
The hypocrisy is deafening.