“Cocaine and Heroin grow out of the ground too.”
Heroin is refined from poppy plants, and was first synthesized by a Chemist, no it doesn’t grow as a plant.
Cocaine is refined from Coca leaves. Chewing Coca leaves as the local have done for hundred of years is different than using the concentrated processed form.
Plants/Natural form OK chemically refined form not OK.
In this approach the pot plant would be legal chemically refined THC would not.
No one likes my plan.
1. Allow anyone (over the age of majority) to grow poppies and marijuana SOLELY for their own use. NO SELLING. Heck, let ‘em grow coca if they can.
2. Anyone selling OR buying gets publicly caned.
3. Increasing strikes for repeated offenses.
4. All other drugs prohibited, sellers get publicly caned, second offense for hard drugs like cocaine and meth, execution. Public.
I think it makes total sense. Those who want to be drugged and stupid and crazy, they can. But NO selling, and being able to grow ‘em will take down the price to rock bottom anyway.
It is a self defense mechanism to make animals which eat them stop eating them and go away. Along comes stupid humans who like the disorienting effect of the plant toxins, and decide to tamper with their nervous system on a regular basis.
Beyond that, Marijuana is continuously being hybrid into varieties with nearly deadly concentrations of THC. How do you put that into your philosophical "nature is good" pipe and smoke it?