“Marijuana is a bad thing and we should have the right to choose on our own to avoid it. Its illegality makes it more appealing to people who don’t like the government.”
This statement is fundamentally ridiculous. Firstly, the banning of dangers is universal to western societies. All the law would do is keep it as a controlled substance. Should cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, and methamphetamine not be controlled substances? Secondly, we already have the right to choose to avoid it or to indulge in it. Just who do you think the drug users and potheads are – aliens, robots, animals? They are people who are choosing to ingest the junk, who later to turn to the public and expect the support to rehabilitate them, to provide them with the resources for sustenance, finances, etc., and the medical care to treat all the medical conditions they brought upon themselves. The choice to self destruct always existed. The issue is whether we need to render that choice legal. I feel that laws should not coddle and support self-destruction. Same goes for the bailouts of other addictions.
Since we elected a president who has rarely, if ever, spoken the truth, or legislated anything of benefit to this country, I have zero faith in government. Yet, I choose to obey its laws to the best of my ability. I don’t like government, and actually hate it. But I have not ever contemplated smoking marijuana because of my political opinions. In reality, people who choose to fry their intellect and otherwise self destruct with drugs, including marijuana, are doing so because of their personal choice to engage in their preference to an altered state of mind rather than allowing themselves to remain creatures with saichel who can improve their world. They are sick and need help. Your average pothead does not pledge allegiance to their political ideology before taking a drag on a blunt.