[f.Christian]

Most people who use tobacco--caffiene and alcohol...

don't lose their thinking/reasoning...at all---or...so quickly!

Most never had any to lose to begin with(either way)!

[Hemingway's Ghost]

So you strict / prohibitionist . . .

then?

[MrLeRoy]

Most people who use tobacco--caffiene and alcohol...
don't lose their thinking/reasoning...at all---or...so quickly!

Provide evidence that users of illegal drugs "lose their thinking/reasoning" more often or more quickly than users of alcohol. (Hint: "evidence" does not mean people you know or stories you've heard.)

[Dakmar]

So no harm done, right? Is that what you are saying? Why bother to stop them, do you just like locking people up who, you claim, aren't even harming themselves?

[WindMinstrel]

does Jesus want all intoxicants to be illegal? Why?

[gdani]

don't lose their thinking/reasoning...at all---or...so quickly!

That's funny -- coming from you of all people

[realpatriot71]

Most people who use tobacco--caffiene and alcohol... don't lose their thinking/reasoning...at all---or...so quickly!

Sorry f.C, you cannot make this claim without backing this up. I smoked my way through undergraduate school and I'm currently in medical school. Anecdotal? Yes, but obviously my thinking skills were not affected. You can't study, go to class, or take a test stoned (some do) and make anything of yourself, but to say that recreational use ruins one's thinking is just untrue. However, even if it did, would this still be a reason to restrict the liberties of the individual to their own property - their bodies. Should we make injecting draino straight into the brain illegal? You can't think too well after that and it might kill you. What's the difference?

[Dead Corpse]

Tobacco, alcohol, and caffine all have psychotropic side effects. Tobacco is a mood stabilizer and a stimulant. Caffine is a stimulant, and taken in large enough quantities can have some hallucinogenic properties (ask someone whose taken too much No-Doze). Alcohol, of course, is a massive depressant.

In less than an hour, alcohol can inhibit your ability to drive, lowers your cognetive skills, and can depress your entire system to a point where your heart will stop.

Marijuana is a depressant, and an appetite stimulant at the same time. It would take a truly super-human effort to OD on it. Does not need to be swallowed, and kept down, like orally administered appetite drugs. The plant itself has textile qualities that rival wood pulp, soybeans, and cotten together.

I would say that those who would worry about a speck in their neighbors eye, has some log farming of their own to do.