And its a gateway out.
In any case, its a free country or its not a free country. Unless its an immediate danger to the user or the people around him, it shouldn’t be the government’s business.
Of course, I feel the same way about cigarettes and cigars. Not an immediate danger, and in a free country they are not the government’s business.
Here is what Newt said about “government business”:
Civilization cannot survive with twelve-year-olds having babies, fifteen-year-olds shooting one another, seventeen-year-olds dying of AIDS, and eighteen-year-olds graduating with diplomas they cannot read. - Newt Gingrich (1997)