It is all about freedom. I don't plan to or want to partake in that particular freedom, but if it is not infringing on someone else I think it is outside the ideals we stand for to punish someone for what they do behind closed doors to themselves.
That does not mean I do not think illicit drugs are undesirable in society, would rather they didn't exist etc. It is simply ideals I believe in that keep me from feeling I am entitled to force my opinion of what I consider okay in private on others.
You obviously feel differently and you base every action you are willing to allow people to take based on a need. You are not alone, many people feel something that could potentialy pose a risk and is not necessary should be restricted or banned.
However I logicly see that our current legal situation encourages organized crime, does not reduce crime, and has most of the same results prohibition did. Most civil rights prior to this newer "war on terrorism" were ignored under the guise of the "war on drugs". No knock raids, searching vehicles and persons on what would otherwise not have been probable cause became acceptable because probable cause in the "war on drugs" is stretched to almost anything. This is less important now because the "war on terrorism" is the new excuse to undo constitutional rights, and has greater acceptance and allows greater excercise of power than the "war on drugs" could get away with, but the end result is the same.
That does not mean I do not think illicit drugs are undesirable in society, would rather they didn't exist etc. It is simply ideals I believe in that keep me from feeling I am entitled to force my opinion of what I consider okay in private on others.
You obviously feel differently and you base every action you are willing to allow people to take based on a need. You are not alone, many people feel something that could potentialy pose a risk and is not necessary should be restricted or banned.
However I logicly see that our current legal situation encourages organized crime, does not reduce crime, and has most of the same results prohibition did. Most civil rights prior to this newer "war on terrorism" were ignored under the guise of the "war on drugs". No knock raids, searching vehicles and persons on what would otherwise not have been probable cause became acceptable because probable cause in the "war on drugs" is stretched to almost anything. This is less important now because the "war on terrorism" is the new excuse to undo constitutional rights, and has greater acceptance and allows greater excercise of power than the "war on drugs" could get away with, but the end result is the same.