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Here and now, the liberals are tearing our country apart. Here and now, it is predominately liberals who favor the legalization of marijuana. Therefore, here and now, I oppose the liberals in their efforts to further degrade America with weed, as I oppose them on every other issue they push.

You posit it as a conservative/liberal issue, but what I'm suggesting is it's really a statist/non-statist issue instead.

You're concerned with the societal effects of marijuana use, and that's a legitimate concern. However, this makes you no different, in effect, from a liberal who is concerned with the societal effects of poverty, or a liberal who is concerned with the societal effects of income disparity between blacks and whites, or a liberal who is concerned with the societal effects of not having access to free contraception through one's law school health care policy. In all cases, you're clamoring for a heavy-handed, proactive government solution to a societal problem that is best handled in an EXTRA-governmental manner.

You want to warn people of the societal effects of marijuana use? Have at it. Educate people: Broadcast your message far and wide. Use facts. Argue your case. Make yourself heard.

Don't ask the government to do your dirty work for you, lest you give liberals and progressives the standing to get the government to do their dirty work for them as well.

Get it?

Wyrd bið ful aræd just fell off the Obama bus and landed on our front lawn a couple of months ago, and has been stinking up the place ever since.

He has no understanding of the fact that government interferance in people’s lives is the essence of leftist politics. He’s been a leftist all of his life, if what he has posted here is any evidence.

He thinks tyranny is “going Galt.”

"You posit it as a conservative/liberal issue, but what I'm suggesting is it's really a statist/non-statist issue instead."

In a way you are correct, but then things are getting too philosophical. In the real world, if I see the democrats/liberals throwing their weight behind something, I'll push against it. In my opinion we can't afford to play mental chess on things like weed and let the lefties get their way on yet another issue.

It is true that the liberals are statist totalitarians, and it is true that the liberals support legalization of marijuana. Thus they must see it in some way having a positive effect on their goal of creating a marxist state, and thus the legalization of marijuana, while possibly having the appearance of an issue of freedom, is actually in some way accelerating us towards marxism. I can see no other reason why the lefties would support it.

Remember, in order to keep the populace docile in a dictatorship, freedom is reduced but license is increased. Marijuana is a license issue to keep the sheeple happy while their true, pure, God-given freedoms are stolen. IMHO.