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I don't smoke but I don't care if you do. Because of my field of work, I am subject to drug testing and I like my job so I don't partake but it really doesn't
by LordKano 12y ago
I don't smoke but I don't care if you do.
Because of my field of work, I am subject to drug testing and I like my job so I don't partake but it really doesn't matter to me if someone else wants to.
It doesn't make any sense to me to spend billions of dollars every year to try to stop people from obtaining and ingesting a plant.
Even if it were a deadly poison, it still wouldn't make sense to me.
For example, if drinking Hemlock infused tea were to became fashionable and people were dropping left, right and center from it, I would still think it's absurd to spend billions of dollars to stop consenting adults from doing so.
Since it makes no sense in that case, I have not heard a convincing argument for prohibition of a much less harmful (and often helpful) plant.
- innguest 12y agoGreat point! Let me help you out. Your hemlock hypothetical already exists. It's a Japanese fish called Fugu and the fatality rate from consumption thereof is 6.8%. I would never advocate for making Fugu illegal.
- mod 12y agoWell, the most-touted argument that I experience is, in a nutshell, that the danger of marijuana that people care about is the danger to others (driving impairment). Nobody seems to care that alcohol is legal. Honestly, though, I don't encounter any die-hard anti-marijuana people anymore. Most people don't care. I don't, either. My father says he doesn't, but says he'll vote against it anyway. Go figure.