The Nuclear Option: Why Do I Have to Buy Healthcare for Potheads?

Breitbart ^ | July 18 2014 | Charles Hurt

[PoloSec]

Politicians here have not even figured out how yet to implement their new law requiring us to pay for everybody else’s health care, and already people are clamoring to legalize drugs that are, at the very least, hazardous to their health.

The good people of Colorado and Washington state can now buy and smoke pot without violating state laws. The movement to do so is spreading among other states like a hot tropical virus through a detention facility on the Mexican border.

I, for one, have never really cared one way or the other if people choose to smoke pot. My experience is that it appears to make most people dumber and slower. But it also seems to make some people happy and fall asleep, which I view as a real positive. Especially the part about putting them to sleep.

But I certainly don’t think that my long-developed and strongly held views against using drugs should be inflicted upon other people to whom I have no responsibility. Nor do I believe that someone else’s devotion to a weed pipe in any way impinges upon some high morals or precious views that I might hold.

I don’t like cats. But I don’t want to outlaw cats.

Here is the thing that really bothers me now. Go ahead and smoke all the dope you want to. But why is it that I have to now pay these people’s health care bills, which are going to be much higher now that it is legal for them and their children to suck dangerous carcinogens down their windpipes?

With all the caterwauling we have heard for years from the nanny state do-gooders over the dangers of smoking tobacco and eating crappy food, where is the outrage now?

[PlasticMan]

Where, Mr. Hurt, is your outrage over having to now pay the health care bills for people who smoke tobacco and eat crappy food?

Good question. Once the "it takes a village" notion gets a foothold, it spreads like a fungus.

[PlasticMan]

There’s conflicting evidence about the links between smoking marijuana and cancer. There’s no evidence that it’s in the same league as smoking tobacco.

That's because the raw amount of smoke is much lower -- Lots of people have multiple-pack-a-day cigarette habits; I doubt that even Cheech and Chong ever had a multiple-pack-a-day joint habit.