Quote from: yoseph on November 23, 2019, 05:13:56 PM

Quote from: clickerz on November 22, 2019, 10:54:26 PM

Quote from: BADecker on November 20, 2019, 11:53:18 PM

But think. Decriminalizing isn't the same as legalizing. Decriminalize, but don't legalize. Legalization is almost as bad as criminalization. The difference is the ways it is almost as bad. Rather, decriminalize, and let us be free.

Btw, upon decriminalization, free all the illegal drug users who were never convicted of hurting anyone.

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I am in favor of the decriminalizing of marijuana as I am in favor of the medical use of marijuana. Marijuana has some medicinal benefits and even cannabis oil used to treat some kind of cancer. When it is beneficial it should be utilized and used.

Very soon people are going to claim that hard drugs like cocaine and heroin has some medicinal properties and they are going to advocate that people start using it and soon it would be widely accepted the same way that Marijuana is going to be accepted.

There are always going to be people who claim stuff.

Imagine that we had a perfect government, one that was really out there to protect the people. So, they protect people, but the protected people don't get any experience thinking for themselves, because they are being sheltered by the government.

The best of good governments can't protect people against everything. Sooner or later some of the bad claims are going to get through. But because people have been protected by government for such a long time, they are really going to fall for the bad claims. Why? Because they think that government is still protecting them, and that the claims that they are hearing must be good claims.

But what if the government is lying and is really a bad government, sucking money and property off the people? Sure, the people will figure it out after a while. But by then many people will have been harmed.

Isn't it better that government make its claims, that the bad people make their claims, and then that the people make their own choices? This is the only way people will ever figure out which claims are the good ones.

On top of it all is the fact that some of the claims only work for certain people, and other claims don't. Why? Because people are different. Some people can drink a quart of rum without being affected much. Others get extremely sick on only a shot of rum. People are different and need to make up their own minds by their own experience.

Of course, if anybody doesn't like freedom, he can move to Communist China, and formally declare himself a citizen. They would love to dictate to you exactly what clothing you wear, how often you can smile (if ever), and multitudes of other things, including how many times you can have sex in a year.

Give the people freedom so that they can grow up through getting their own experience.

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