Here are the facts. The WOD has failed, it needs to be revisited.
Legalizing drugs IS NOT the way way a sane and sober society interested in promoting the general welfare of its people goes about such things.
Make all the high minded (no pun intended) poetic and philosophical arguments you can but in the end it boils down to a group of folks who want to smoke pot without worrying about the man, nor the consequences to society as a whole.
Well you’re part way there,. you understand the WOD has failed.
Now for the other half, where you’re completely backwards. A SANE society let’s people take their own risks.
Make all the bad puns you want but in the end it boils down to are we a free society of not? Free societies allow people to take risks, even unreasonable risks. Free societies allow stupid behavior. It allows people to eat unhealthy food, read in dim light, not dress properly for the weather, drink and smoke dope. Once you decide the government gets to start dictating which “bad” behavior is and isn’t acceptable you open the door for all kinds of stupid tyranny like we’re getting now, with socialized medicine and governments outlawing fatty foods all for “our own good” because they “know best”. Screw them, it’s not their life, it’s not their call. If I want to eat transfats (which I do) it’s my business, not theirs, not yours. If I want to smoke dope (which I haven’t in decades) it’s my business, not theirs, not yours.
As long as people are keeping the risk to themselves it’s really nobody’s damn business. At least in a free society.