Legalizing marijuana

[The Ghost of RubangB]

kabhold said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
Majority rules has never been a good argument for anything, because the majority used to be in favor of slavery, not letting women vote, not letting biracial couples get married, and many other crazy things. Majority rules can't and shouldn't solve everything, or the majority of white assholes would have voted all the minorities into prison ages ago.

Why do you care what I do with my body? Are your freedoms somehow infringed if I cook up and shoot up some smack right now? Or are my freedoms infringed when you don't let me? I'm all for majority rules when the majority isn't voting to tell the minority what they can and can't do.

 

WHY? Weed smokers raise my health care costs. You can pull up a million articles stating that weed does nothing to the body... I can pull up the opposite. Only difference is mine came from a medical database, and yours will come from hightimes.com. And a good % of weed smokers are usually in the bottom tax bracket. Which means I'm footing the bill.

Gateway drug. First drug I did...Wasn't the last. People move on to harder drugs and commit stupid/horrible crimes.

IT MAKES PEOPLE STUPID.... up to a year or so after they quit (habitual smokers).

I hope you really, in your own mind, do not compare not smoking weed legally to slavery, not letting women vote, not letting biracial couples get married, etc.

If you're worried about health care costs, McDonald's is more to blame for that than weed.

I've never been to hightimes.com, and I'm not a stoner.  I'd rather do opiates or booze than weed.  (I'm more of a Rush Limbaugh, Cindy McCain, Courtney Love type of drug user.)

If you're opposed to a specific drug because the people who use it are in a specific tax bracket, then are you less opposed to drugs that healthy rich people do?

If you're worried about gateway drugs, it won't be a gateway drug if it's legal.

If you're worried about people being stupid... why?  Then shouldn't alcohol and television be illegal?

And yes, I think I can compare many different ways in which majority rules infringes on the rights of minorities, be they a racial minority, or gays, or drug users.  I think everybody should be able to do whatever they want with their own bodies, which includes being free, getting married, voting, and doing any drugs they want, if they want.