I’m in the legal camp the government is not my judge and jury
Legalizing weed only increases the illegal activity. Few people will buy it from the government at such a high price when they can get it cheaper from their dealer.
I hear you and am generally in your camp.
However, I am concerned about the message that legalization sends to our children.
Now that the FedGov no longer enforces or supports our mainstream value system of norms and beliefs, it’s up to us as parents to double down.
I don’t want to have to explain to my kids that yeah, smoking pot is bad, but that dude walking down the street with a doobie in his pie hole is not doing anything morally wrong because the govt says it’s OK.
Norming the use of pot for recreational purposes is merely a marker of our downward spiral as a culture.
What’s so hard about smoking your pot inside the confines of your home, and keeping it on the down low? You know, like we’ve been doing for the last 40 years. It has certainly worked for me. I use it every day and have had zero police interaction, ever, regarding it.
The most important thing is that we protect the children from the creeping moral failure that is liberalism. I see legalization as just another attack by leftists on our values, so I cannot support it.