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Frankly, I have never understood the desire to make a plant illegal. If you're a religious person this is something God made. Who are we to question God's creat
by macinjosh 10y ago
Frankly, I have never understood the desire to make a plant illegal. If you're a religious person this is something God made. Who are we to question God's creation?
If you are an atheist you probably rest the bulk of your belief system upon science. These policies prevent science from studying the plants and even fly in the face of existing scientific evidence.
One has to conclude that these policies are in the service of money and interests other than the public's.
- PhasmaFelis 10y ago> Frankly, I have never understood the desire to make a plant illegal. If you're a religious person this is something God made. Who are we to question God's creation? This is kind of a silly argument, though. Malaria, anthrax, and the black death are also natural, and you won't find many theists arguing that we should welcome those. (I am absolutely in favor of legalization, I just don't like silly arguments.)
- pmyjavec 10y agoThis is true but they're not really banned, nor are they plants :)
- mattstreet 10y agoSo it's only plants that God made that are automatically safe?
- mighty_atomic_c 10y agoWoah. You're right! Let's ban getting sick!
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoI think you'll find yourself in a lot of trouble if you try to collect and sell anthrax spores.
- macinjosh 10y agoI agree its a silly argument but so is the theist's argument that says God (or whoever) provides for humanity through creation and then goes on to blame the harmful parts of nature on corruption of creation by Satan or the devil. I was raised in that kind of environment and have heard these arguments. Their 'logic' is almost always silly. Sometimes you got fight silly with silly.
- tree_of_item 10y agoIt's not a silly argument, we didn't make malaria, anthrax or the black death Schedule I.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoWe do our best to wipe them off the face of the earth. That's a lot more dramatic than Schedule I. I've never heard even the most ardent anti-drug ranters say that we need to make the marijuana plant extinct.