[TruthFactor]

It was worth saying twice. The average IQ in legalized states is dropping, and the folk’s that are smart enough to realize the danger and not irreparably damage their mind will be stuck dealing with and cleaning up the mess in the future.

[madprof98]

The truth doesn’t matter. It’s all about the pleasures of the moment. That’s what we get in exchange for genuine liberty.

[Ken H]

Yeah right. This country was flat on its back until FDR and LBJ came along and outlawed pot during the New Deal.

Thank goodness for Progressives!

[fr_freak]

The average IQ in legalized states is dropping...

That is entirely possible, and it is also entirely possible that regular use of marijuana will drop IQ (hopefully temporary). But that is irrelevant to the issue with the War on Drugs. There are a great number of things that adults can choose to do that are less than healthy, from drinking to eating Twinkies and beyond. The real issue is whether we want our federal government making life choices like this for us, and then ruthlessly enforcing them to the point that the War on Drugs warriors have done.

I don't have a problem with states legalizing drugs, nor do I have a problem with states criminalizing drugs (from a legal standpoint). That is what federalism is all about. I do have a problem with the federal government regulating individual behavior, and I have a problem with them regulating which potted plants an individual citizen grows in his backyard for his own use and claiming that some vague, indirect, possible effect on interstate commerce is the Constitutional justification for it.

When you allow the federal to have that kind of power, the state governments become nothing more than vassals of the federal government, and we all become nothing but serfs to our Washington DC overlords.