[robertpaulsen]

Big difference between keeping something illegal versus making something illegal.

And you're going on record to state an equivalence between doing drugs and overeating?

[bc2]

Activities are illegal even though they are not criminal. Here are two really simple examples: owning and using pistols and "assault weapons", and owning and using narcotics.

Neither one is a criminal act, guns don't hurt anyone, and neither does drug use.

But once ACTUAL CRIMES are involved (theft, fraud, murder, etc) then that is when we need to punish people.

Owning guns is not a crime unless you use them to commit CRIMINAL ACTS.

Owning and using drugs is not a crime unless you have committed a crime to aquire the drugs.

[MrLeRoy]

Drug users cost me money for everything from their hospitalization

So do overeaters---going after them next?

Big difference between keeping something illegal versus making something illegal.

Difference? Sure. Big? Prove it.

And you're going on record to state an equivalence between doing drugs and overeating?

No, I'm going on record to state that overeaters, like drug users, cost you money.