Just a moment...

Honestly, i'm libertarian on this topic. I just think it should be treated like alcohol, age limits and driving restrictions. I'm personally allergic to it, so it doesn't affect me. As long as it doesn't interfere with someone else's rights, go for it. That said, with the companies the screen for it, thanks for the job, stoner!

Cpl (Join to see) - I think the states that have already legalized it, they have such restrictions in place.

As long as people are held accountable for violating the rights of others when they are high, just like a drunk driver would be, I'll accept the personal risk.

Although, I'm not opposed to cannibus being decriminalized, it reminds me of A Brave New World, just substitute marijuana for Soma. Maybe it's part of their plan to subdue the population.

Cpl (Join to see) - I have done too many counter drug deployments and seen the ravages up close (death/human trafficking, etc). Legalizing it will not get the tax revenue they think it will (Colorado) and my real argument is that if you legalize MJ, what is next... again see Oregon. We have this tendency in the civilized world that when something is too hard, we bury our heads in the sand.

I've a brother who's a meth addict who has spent time in prison and I have a sister who's an alcoholic. I can't say freedom with a straight face while advocating the ban of one illicit substance, while saying nothing about the other.

As long as it's regulated and taxed, I don't have a problem with it. That said, marijuana is the only one of the scheduled drugs I would want decriminialized, the remaining drugs are a red line I wouldn't want to cross.

I understand the argument for baby step legislation leading to more, but I'm considering it historically also. The alcohol and tobacco industries lobbied to have it criminalized because for them it was competition. Then there is the alcohol ban that created 20th century mob warfare.

The majority of people who do partake are already doing so. We are always going to have the idiots that violate someone else's rights but it's a risk we have to accept as a free society.