Your freedoms end when they impede on another’s right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. If you are engaging in activity that is actively putting others at harm, especially small children, it is no longer a right.
I’m completely sober, so I am not out of touch with reality. I don’t escape reality by lighting up a joint or partaking of drugs. I have seen what drugs has done to the city I live in, people strung out in the streets, law enforcement unable to do anything about it because of how pervasive this issue is.
People getting to DUI crashes because of drugs.
Children being exposed directly to second hand marijuana smoke in their cars out of family park because their grandmother needs to light up in order to enjoy her family.
No. I am not out of touch with reality, I see the problems substance dependency has caused and I’m willing to call it out.
Did I say that I am a Mennonite? I said I come from a long line of Mennonite farmers.
Don’t you dare quote Revelation at me, when you are advocating for people to not be alert and sober-minded.
People’s freedoms end when It’s negatively impacts others right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Of course you are out of touch.
It’s fast growing and doesn’t have to destroy forests for homes.
It’s seed is excellent food source that taste good.
It can be used to make natural fiber clothing.
It decays much faster in our landfills than oil based products.
No one should ever be denied the right to grow their own medicine.
Furthermore it was used in the Tabernacle and Temple. That you do not know these things is your own ignorance.
YOU are not sober minded! You are programmed to HATE legalization because of your own adverse issues possibly due to your ignorance built on belief.
If people are having negative effects from using marijuana its up to that certain individual to quit. Just because they have a bad experience with it doesnt mean the rest of the country has to stop doing it. While some people may have negative effects, some people benefit from the effects of marijuana as well. This is for the majority of people who use marijuana, it does far more good than bad. Some people cant handle their alcohol as well as others but nobody tries to ban alcohol. If apartments are an issue then you need to take that up with the apartment complex.
I have no dog in this particular fight, but err on the side of legalization.
With that out of the way, it’s extremely unwise to ban vices. Here’s the historical pattern:
- A group of people with crappy lives indulges in a vice to take the edge off
- People notice that a lot of people with crappy lives are indulging in vices
- People think the vice caused their lives to be crappy (which is probably half-true)
- The vice is banned
- The depressed people, who have just had the one bright spot in their lives taken away, become politically motivated against the people who banned the vice
The most important thing is to make society broadly prosperous, so there are fewer depressed junkies in the first place.
Ask a cop or a drug therapist is is not only a gateway drug IT IS THE #1 GATEWAY DRUG. ALL DRUGGIES START OFF WITH MARIJUANA! It smell like a skunks ass! And rots the brain!!! Make it illegal!
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Marijuana has its uses and abuses. Medical use of marijuana has helped many and the choice to use it should be available in principle. If someone is allergic or has a family history of allergy the have a choice not to use it.
Get educated! Legalization is not just for smoking.
It must be legalized to fix the land devastated by Monsanto.
It must be legalize for the incredible food source it is.
It must be legalized to put textiles back in the ISA.
It must be legalized to make products that don’t take thousands of years to decay in our landfills.
And NO ONE should be denied the right to grow and have their own medicine.
Cannabis today is much stronger than the “Woodstock Weed” of the 1960s and 1970s. It’s been bred selectively for higher THC concentrations, sometimes up to 60%. As a result it’s become addictive like hashish. Secondly, we need research into how cannabis interacts with psychoactive drugs such as anti-depressants. Can drug interaction cause psychotic episodes? How many school shooters have had a serious cannabis habit and also been on anti-depressants?