mrplunkey
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redsamurai said:you, the libertarian, don't see the merit in wiping out the blackmarket by legalizing an activity that affects only the person using it?
I thought you were all for people being responsible for their own actions? Big difference between doing something to your own body vs. something like robbing a bank........I hope that analogy was in jest.
Let's see... pot is a drug that the NIH has directly tied to missing or abandoning education. As a matter of fact, pot was declared a dominant factor in the study and increased use tied-back directly to an increased chance of leaving school (so its even proportional in its use and its degree of damage).
We live in a society where everyone thinks its fair for someone else to pay for the downtrodden. Regardless of whether its free food, free healthcare, subsidized housing, educational grants, welfare checks and/or disability incomes, someone else is always supposed to pay.
So on one hand we have a drug that denies people one of the most critical factors to economic viability (education) and on the other hand we have a huge pool of downtrodden that someone else is supposed to pay for. You can have one or the other -- but both simply won't fly. Its true that I'm a libertarian, but I'm also 100% opposed to pot until it can be demonstrated that no American would ever, ever, ever have to pay for someone else who chose to sit around smoking pot instead of pursuing and education and trying to be successful in life.