“I think one of the reasons many of us don’t like the legalization of pot is that it seems to simply relax people to the point where they aren’t particularly concerned with bettering themselves.”
I have seen folks like this who’ve never touched a drink or cannabis ever in their lives. That aside, who are you to decide if someone should be “bettering themselves?” This is nanny-state talk. Very progressive, immoral & anti-liberty. More “I know better than you do” is NOT conservative in any way.
Bad parents usually do bad job of raising kids. Bad parents can be cannabis users, beer drinkers, thieves & smell bad too. Still, the fact remains, prohibition has created more crime & cost society more than any minute amount it might have prevented.
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You missed my point. Those who will not better themselves tend to become the tax-payer’s responsibility. Now, if we could just leave them to starve, I’d be fine with it. But our system is moving more to the left all the time, and the more people just sit back and chill, the more we have to pay for them. And you just ignored what I said about young kids getting onto pot because their parents do it. I’m telling you as someone who has had 2000 students: they become society’s problem very quickly.