[cookiemcbride]

—Alcohol comes closest, but we had a vote on that and the nation decided to accept the level of death and destruction that it causes. —

No, there was no ‘vote’ on it. Your Representatives in Govnerment were responsible for banning it based on some hysterical agitators. After society was turned upside down and racked with crime, those same Representatives un-banned it. There was never a referendum by the people in either instance.

Same thing with the FDA. Don’t conservatives rail against ‘unelected bureaucrats’ making law? Oh, I see, only in select circumstances until your delicate sensibilities are offended.

See also: trans fats, tobacco and coming soon: sugar. Enjoy your nanny state.

[philman_36]

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[DiogenesLamp]

Is it too much to ask that some of you people would simply read the zillion other previously written rebuttals to your points?

You are going to win the argument just by making people too weary to keep repeating themselves.