should the Govt not tell anyone what they should put in their body, ?
I think that is what you;re saying and that the authors logic is flawed and thus you probably disagree with him so if that is your view then should the Govt just get out of the drug business and just let anyone take heroin, coke, LSD?
After all the liberties taken away , liberals, and Govt out of our bodies is what I hear about killing babies, off junkies so they can take their drugs and get high.
If you say yes then should we also let anyone marry anyone, let kids take the drugs and have sex or of you d want an age limit for sex and drugs then should Govt decide on that or is it a free for all country and anarchy ?
I think if the state can make a compelling argument as to regulating a substance like a drug, then let them make it, and if it falls under their enumerated powers to regulate it, then regulate it. I have no problem with that notion, though we could debate the efficacy of regulating a substance / turning the substance into valuable contraband.
The problem, however, with most pro-prohibition arguments for pot is that in their zeal to push their cause, the pro-pot-prohibitors typically conflate - very, very, very greatly - the "societal dangers" of pot by attributing the societal dangers of other, more pernicious drugs (like your heroin, coke, LSD from above) to marijuana as well. Or else they attribute other things that are bad or harmful - say, a car crash that kills young kids - to pot, because it's logically possible to drive a car while stoned.
The real world doesn't work that way, you see. You can't factor out an extremely complex societal equation with all sorts of unpredictable, dependent variables in it to, say, "if you're for legalizing pot, you're also for kids killing themselves in massive car accidents while driving stoned."
If you can put anything in your body, abortion and meth should certainly count as well. Anything goes right? After all, abortion is just inserting a vacuum. Who has the right to tell someone they can’t do that?
It amazes me how people can be against abortion and then say the government can’t limit what you do at the same time. Libertarian doublethink.