How about steroids. Pot good, steroids bad ?
Well, whenever drug legalization is discussed around here, we always have someone give the “libertarian” view, that drugs should be legal because government has no business telling us whether we should use any substance.
And then the 10th amendment constitutional arguments are presented, where someone will say this subject is not the business of the federal government, and should only be addressed by state governments.
And then there are arguments about whether marijuana is really a gateway drug, and discussions about whether marijuana or any other particular drug, is more dangerous than fully legal alcoholic beverages.
So then it comes back to , who decides if a drug is dangerous enough to ban it or punish users, how serious penalties should be, and which level of government should be dealing with such regulations in the first place.