Originally posted by whatsupwiddat
how about we make it legal that drug doers get deported to Afghanistan; lots of Opium there! Go get high! Not in my country.
*Sigh*...so let me get this straight...you are FOR jailing people who smoke weed of their free will in their own basement/bedroom/etc? Can you give me a good reason why a person who, after a day's work at the office/school/what have you, sits back and smokes a joint, should be taken to jail at the point of a gun?
Tell me, who's rights has that person violated? Did he deprive any individual of their right to life, liberty, or property? What's your charge against him? Is it that his moral standards don't agree with yours? What a shame! HE's not doing something YOU approve of, so he should be deprived of his freedom to make the world a better place, as suited to your definition. That is logic if I've ever heard it.
Now, I don't think pot-smoking is very smart or becoming of anyone. However, what a person does in the privacy of his own home is his business, so long as in the process he violates no one's rights. Last time i checked, Bob in the basement smoking a blunt didn't alienate any of my rights. Therefore, there is no sense in making pot-smoking illegal.
It absolutely infuriates me that rapists and child molesters get paroled after 5 years to make room for all these pot smokers (requiring the construction of new jails, at taxpayer expense, of course). It also irks me that the preposterous "War on Drugs" spends billions upon billions in a fruitless attempt to jail those evil weed-smokers, in the process creating a black market, and subsequently crime. (When's the last time you heard of someone getting shot over a cigerette?)
See my point? It's a knee-jerk reaction among people that "Drugs=Bad, so Drugs should = illegal". I think if people would think this through, they would realize what an anti-individualist and resource-wasting thought process this is.
Allright, I'm done now. Replies are welcome! -E-Z