“From personal experience, I KNOW marijuana is NOT addictive.”
I could make the same statement about alcohol, but it would be equally false. Addiction is a complex process and not everyone is similarly vulnerable to the risk. I enjoy consuming alcohol in moderation, but I have family members and acquaintances who simply cannot consume alcohol in moderation. They have no internal “regulator” or feedback mechanism that controls their use. The same is true for people who smoke marijuana. Most are casual users who lead normal lives at work and home. However, some are caught in a downward spiral of dependency and despair.
BTW, I favor legalization and controlled distribution of marijuana among adults. But I am not blind to the social, behavioral, and medical dangers it poses to some heavy users.
I conclude from your reply that any substance that might cause harm to anyone is a fair candidate for banning & outlawing.
Therefore, the government has the right & obligation to regulate what you may & may not consume. Is that what you favor?
Enjoy your meat, peanuts, wheat products, ... while you can, & don’t complain here when they take it away, or more likely, make it so expensive only rich people - the ruing class - can afford it.
How can you support such obvious tyranny? Haven’t you noticed that as our jail cells fill the drug war is a miserable failure? How many peoples lives could have be turned around if the billions spent on this war were spent helping drug abusers? How many people would not have died but for this violent drug war?
How can you call yourself a conservative while supporting such an assault on individual Americans?
I call you a solid supporter of the tyranny of the nanny state which leads directly to totalitarianism.