That's not what others believe. What others will believe is that they don't wanna pay for something they don't have to. And the lawyers will promise them that they won't have to pay. Then the courts would decide. So that's a big mess, just like the tobacco companies have to pay all those hospital bills, the governments would have to pay for all the costs of marijuana bills.
The government would make money off legalizing marijuana, not lose it. I don't see how non-users will have to pay for users. Especially because we already have high taxes to keep inmates alive in prison.
I believe it's a parent's responsibility to keep their child and loved ones off drugs. Even though many parents believe it's the government's job to watch over their children... when it isn't. Yes, that is my opinion, but marijuana is being kept illegal due to moral issues, not because it's dangerous. People only know that marijuana is bad, but not why it's bad. It's not accepted because they have been told marijuana is bad their whole lives.
Anyway, maybe there's a better solution: I want to prevent the creation of new abusers, and you want to prevent users from being abused.
That sounds good and all, but you can't prevent people from doing stuff. Acts of prevention only causes dangerous underground operations to form, aka gangs and underground drug business.
Again, that's just your personal philosophy. Each law that the government creates is a violation of human rights in someone else's eyes.
Alright, this makes sense. However, what we do in our spare time at home shouldn't matter to the government. Yes, this is my opinion, but if you think it's fair that the government controls what we do at home... then do you wan't the government to tell you when you should put your child in time out? Should the government decide how long your child is allowed to watch T.V? Should the government decide how much food you can cook and how much you can throw away?
Yes, it is a belief that the government should only intervene in people's lives if there is a conflict between two people that should be settled in court, or if someone runs a potential risk of harming another person. If someone gets high at home, it's not affecting you... in fact, you don't even know the person! Nobody is getting hurt.
Most people, and i mean most people, who smoke marijuana are NOT addicts. The only reason so many people go to rehab to kill an addiction they don't have is because it's either that or jail.
Yes, some people who wouldn't be addicted to marijuana will become addicts if marijuana is legalized. However, people who smoke tobacco can change to marijuana and cut off from smoking cigarettes, which is far worse than marijuana. People who decide to get high at home rather than drink at a bar will already be at home. Those people who do decide to drive high instead of drunk will still be a danger on the road, but not NEARLY as dangerous as a drunk driver.
You may think it's alright for the government to tell people how to live, but that's not freedom. Freedom is the choice of being able to live any way you want, as long as you don't screw other people over or harm other people. It still happens, but making something a law doesn't prevent it.
So why are you stopping with marijuana, when your personal philosophy says you should support the legalization of all drugs? What is differnet about them that makes you not want them to be legalized?
I stop at marijuana because I never went into detail with other drugs and I have not done my research on them. I have very little say if other drugs should be legalized or not. As far as I'm concerned, marijuana is probably the safest out of all of them and would be a great place to start and to experiment if people can handle drugs responsibly.
