I don't want government bureaucrats telling me what I am allowed to ingest or what I must ingest. A free man makes his own decisions. Remember when alcohol was prohibited in this country?
Substitute your scary list with beef, pork and chicken. What if the government banned meat? If you allow government to ban one item, then any item, even ones you like, could be banned.
If someone wants to take heroin in the privacy of their own home, I don't care. It's their home. It's their body. But if they hurt someone else in doing so, then I care. And I don't want to pay for their medical treatment.
If that makes me a libertarian...
What about a knife? Should government prohibit you putting that in your own body?
Are you in the parade of “right to die” assisted suicide “progressives?”
No it makes you oblivious to human nature. Washington State for the past several years has made possession of “personal amounts” of ALL DRUGS legal.
Know what that has accomplished? Seattle has the 2nd largest community of drug vagrants in the nation. If you adjust it for population, it is probably #1.
Street crime, carjackings, robberies, (cops found a guy with a makeshift gun range, targets on a tree, last week in one of the drug vagrant campgrounds in a city park), murders sex trafficking and every crime statistic is being affected by losers coming here for drugs without consequences.
Know what else? Cartel violence on the streets of an American city. You want to live around that Mr. Pious?
Unfortunately we must have standards in society or it breaks down, open your eyes around America today, that Libertarian idea about drug consumption in theory sounds proper but it will not work.
You would think that the concept that the government that can tell you what you CAN’T put into your body, will also be the government that can tell you what you MUST put into your body, would have sunk in by now.