Marijuana Downgrade: Three cheers for Yemen; By easing access to marijuana, America will join Yemen in the international race to the bottom

I guess you missed the part where I said I quit it a week ago. But just because I don’t consume it any more doesn’t mean I want to deny others that option. You’re just a loon who wants to blame everything on drugs. You’d have a much better case against alcohol but you ignore that because you know prohibition is unfeasible. So instead focus your attacks on marijuana since that’s less popular. But the principle is the same. Unless you are also in favor of outlawing alcohol you are a hypocrite for only going after marijuana.

If the drugs are as safe and well tolerated as claimed, then its users should be able to hold up to all the responsibilities of non-drug users. No getting off or reduced penalties for otherwise crimes because “they were under the influence.” If someone isn’t able to pay for their own food, lodging and other ordinary expenses they shouldn’t be irresponsibly wasting money on optional recreational drugs and thus shouldn’t receiving government handouts. Now if private charities wish to provide support for druggies they are free to do so, but public charities should at least try to avoid that and have mechanisms for booting druggies off the dole. Although the drugs may be presumed legal for adults (juveniles may have different rules) the judicial system should have some mechanism, whereas with due process, someone who’s proven through serial misbehavior, that they can’t responsibly tolerate this or that drug should be able to be legally barred from using it, with the kind of penalties previously applied to all for use pre-legalization.

I’ve already covered that in an earlier post here when I said drug tests should be considered for welfare recipients. By far the vast majority of marijuana users are self supporting members of society contrary to what you may think.

Unfortunately “drug tests” are not useful markers of recent drug use for some recreational drugs. It would be nice if they were, but other, less straightforward measures may be needed in some cases. Proof may be difficult in some cases but the principles of requiring responsibility for drug use and denying drug use to those who can be reasonably proven to be irresponsible, should be the goals.

In heavy users marijuana can be detected in urine for a month, less time for light users. It can be detected longer in people than any other illegal drug. So yes it could be used to screen welfare applicants and those receiving such benefits.

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