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I am not a liberal, I'm just not a libertarian and would never want to be, mostly because of their stands on drugs.

I have no problem defending my positions, but I'm not a scientist or doctor. Sometimes, all it takes is common sense to understand why a government must take action to protect innocents in society, obviously, you lack the commen sense necessary to understand why people should not have a RIGHT to take substances, for fun, which alters their mental/emotional states and, by so doing, affects and effects those around them, friends or strangers, financially, emotionally, and otherwise.

I am not a liberal

Prove it---tell us what you think should be done about "the root cause of why so many people need to distort their realities and/or run away from their problems."

I have no problem defending my positions

You have utterly failed to defend the idea that alcohol should be legal but marijuana illegal.

people should not have a RIGHT to take substances, for fun, which alters their mental/emotional states

Then why not ban alcohol, which alters the user's mental/emotional states?

Sometimes, all it takes is common sense to understand why a government must take action to protect innocents in society, obviously, you lack the commen sense necessary to understand why people should not have a RIGHT to take substances, for fun, which alters their mental/emotional states and, by so doing, affects and effects those around them, friends or strangers, financially, emotionally, and otherwise.

Ah, our good friend common sense. Common sense drug laws. Common sense gun laws. Common sense smoking regulations. Common sense food laws are coming soon to a government near you. You are entititled to your own common sense. That, however, does not make it MY common sense, so that is why we have the concept of limited government - to keep you from imposing YOUR common sense on me. Because I'll damn well drink beer tonight when I get home and get a good beer buzz if I damn well please, and if I were inclined to smoke pot, I would do that as well and you could go pound sand. Because your rights to govern me as to my behavior end once I'm on my property. Or they used to, until you and your coherts in the liberal busybody community decided that I was unfit to tend to my own affairs.