I hear you and am generally in your camp.
However, I am concerned about the message that legalization sends to our children.
Now that the FedGov no longer enforces or supports our mainstream value system of norms and beliefs, it’s up to us as parents to double down.
I don’t want to have to explain to my kids that yeah, smoking pot is bad, but that dude walking down the street with a doobie in his pie hole is not doing anything morally wrong because the govt says it’s OK.
Norming the use of pot for recreational purposes is merely a marker of our downward spiral as a culture.
What’s so hard about smoking your pot inside the confines of your home, and keeping it on the down low? You know, like we’ve been doing for the last 40 years. It has certainly worked for me. I use it every day and have had zero police interaction, ever, regarding it.
The most important thing is that we protect the children from the creeping moral failure that is liberalism. I see legalization as just another attack by leftists on our values, so I cannot support it.
“It’s for the children” is the rallying cry of leftist tyranny.
It’s never about the children. It’s about control.
Whether or not the government says something is OK has very little to do with whether it’s moral. It’s unlikely a guy smoking pot is the only legal but immoral thing you’ll see on the street.
And as for the spiral, remember pot was legal for most of the history of this country. We won some pretty big wars with pot legal.
What was so hard about it was that you could be thrown in jail for the rest of your life for it. The creeping moral failure of liberalism is what decided to make it illegal, liberalism believes in control and making sure you don’t do things they disagree with. Restoring freedom is conservatism.
“However, I am concerned about the message that legalization sends to our children.”
Should people be arrested for adultery? Should laws force mandatory church attendance? How big of a soda should you be able to buy under the law?
Government isn’t here to help you make good choices in life. That’s a childlike view of government. you are the child, the government is here to guide you.
“it’s up to us as parents to double down.”
Yup
“I don’t want to have to explain to my kids that yeah, smoking pot is bad, but that dude walking down the street with a doobie in his pie hole is not doing anything morally wrong because the govt says it’s OK.”
Kids, we have a crazy government run by leftist lunatics....
What did you expect for about $13,000/year for K-12 education per kid provided by the leftist nanny state, a quality education?
“I don’t want to have to explain to my kids...”
All recreational drugs I know of have adverse impacts on people.
Your kids should know adverse impacts for tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, opiate, stimulant, alcohol and sugar usage by the age of 10 if you as a parent are doing a proper job.
Leftist governments are inherently immoral.
I don't know if it's any more immoral than smoking cigarettes or drinking booze, but I'd say you should probably start on your kids with the difference between legal and moral. Abortion is a hell of a lot better example than smoking marijuana.