bull.
Your simple mind doesn’t realize that we didn’t have anything even closely resembling a “welfare state” that would pick up the butts on the side of the road and feed them and care for their children during the 1700’s through the early 1900’s.
I agree-—laws are WAY too intrusive today-—but as long as taxpayers are paying for all the druggies and their progeny they drop all over the place—then I don’t want it made legal. It leads to irresponsibility and death and confiscation of decent hard-working Americans who pay for their play.
It should not be “PROMOTED” by government, since a “Just society” has to promote public Virtue (All the Founders, Montesquieu, Locke, Plato Aristotle,
etc.) Justice IS a virtue and that is the only reason for government—plus to protect private property. Since druggies are mostly the destroyers of private property and thieves and liars, I think govt. has an interest in discouraging it. Government CAN NOT promote evil. (sodomy and abortion) but as you can see we have a post-constitutional government like Levin states.
People who used drugs illicitly usually were killed and their genetic pool died out. They had very few friends who were decent human beings—people didn’t want to “marry” potheads and degenerates when we were a Christian nation.
I’m really sort of at a loss for “Since druggies are mostly the destroyers of private property and thieves and liars” - are we talking about CANNABIS here?
I’ve known many people who have smoked/do smoke pot. I would say that 10-20% of them are the stereotypicial “stoners” that are in their 30s-40s, underachievers, living at home or with other relatives who care for them. The other 80-90% of them are all gainfully employed. One of them is a doctor, another is a vice president of a large telco.
I’m not trying to argue that everyone who smokes pot is going to be a rocket scientist, but what you seem to be doing is to be assuming that every person who smokes pot is a no-goodnik who is going to destroy the fabric of society, and that’s just not the case.
Every person who drinks beer doesn’t go home and drunkenly beat their wife and children. Every person who smokes tobacco doesn’t get lung cancer that has to be treated on the taxpayer dime.
Taxpayers AREN’T paying for all the druggies and their progeny. It’s not something where all the people who smoke pot are on government assistance and all the people that don’t smoke pot are hardworking citizens that are getting taxed to pay for the pot for the rest of society.
“People who used drugs illicitly usually were killed and their genetic pool died out.” ....strange, when you consider that cannabis was the most used drug of the ancient world.
Just sayin.