You really can't imagine someone avoiding pot because it is illegal, or succumbing to temptation and enjoying it but deciding against breaking the law to make it a habit, or not hanging out with drug users because of the work they do, or the aspirations they have?
You haven't known young people who saw that breaking the law for drugs would interfere with a chosen field of work, or truck drivers and GIs who quit because of the laws, or professionals who realized the risk and ended that youthful carelessness?
“You really can’t imagine someone avoiding pot because it is illegal, or succumbing to temptation and enjoying it but deciding against breaking the law to make it a habit, or not hanging out with drug users because of the work they do, or the aspirations they have?
You haven’t known young people who saw that breaking the law for drugs would interfere with a chosen field of work, or truck drivers and GIs who quit because of the laws, or professionals who realized the risk and ended that youthful carelessness?”
I have met people who don’t use because their line of work requires random urine testing and/or a polygraph. I don’t really consider this law because they can quit that job or fail a test without legal consequences.
Outside of law enforcement, security or some entry level jobs nobody cares about a drug possession record. Especially for regarded professionals in an in-demand field. I could have multiple felonies on my record and my phone would still be ringing off the hook because I’m known for quality work.
The only law that would reduce drug use is requiring ALL people to take random urine or polygraph tests with imprisonment as a consequence. Would you consider that acceptable in what remains of our once free nation?