How much freedom does a drug addict who is a slave to drugs enjoy?
How much freedom do people who can't walk their streets because of high levels of crime connected to drugs enjoy?
Criminologist refutes cannabis-related crime increase claims - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005416/posts
How much freedom does a drug addict who is a slave to drugs enjoy?
About as much as an alcohol or tobacco addict.
How much freedom do people who can't walk their streets because of high levels of crime connected to drugs enjoy?
Criminalization of drugs motivates crime by hyperinflating drug prices - and puts the profits in criminal hands.
“How much freedom does a drug addict who is a slave to drugs enjoy?”
You’re confusing freedoms, here. One is the gubmints business, the other is between man and God or nature or himself, or whatever. One is your business, the other not. Very many choices are becoming the collective’s business, the more gubmint intrudes on our lives. Food, for instance, I assume will be just as regulatable as now is marijuana, considering we’re all responsible for eachother’s healthcare bills. And the logic is tight: if you cost the people more money than the next guy because you’re fat, you deserve to be punished by the state. That is, if the law is not going to be held back by oldfashioned concern for personal freedom, individual autonomy, and justice as traditionally understood.
There’s another way, however. Fatties could pay more for the same insurance. Weed smokers could be responsible for their own actions. We could let the inherent absence of freedom in addiction to which you allude make smoking weed, if ot really is so bad, correct itself, rather than the state further restricting the freedom that’s not there anyway.