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To: ConservingFreedom
No, I'm asking a question you're squirming to evade.

There is no rational purpose for asking that question. It has NO BEARING on justifying Weed. It is demanding that we should put up with more worthless people getting stoned because we have worthless people getting drunk.

You have not voiced a single positive argument yet.

46 posted on 08/18/2014 8:58:19 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp
When they start paying for their own bills, they will be right. Till then, it is our damned business.

What should we do about alkies whose bills we pay - ban booze?

There is no rational purpose for asking that question. It has NO BEARING on justifying Weed.

The purpose is to see if what you posted was a principle or merely a rationalization - if the former, you'll appply it consistently, including to the drug alcohol.

You have not voiced a single positive argument yet.

I've been too busy shooting down bad arguments for marijuana prohibition. Here's my positive argument: by legalizing marijuana, we'd take its profits out of criminal hands; reduce motives for crime; better equip ourselves to reasonably regulate it, including age restrictions; free up the tens of billions of taxpayer dollars being spend on enforcing marijuana criminalization; and become more respectful of the liberties of adults.

54 posted on 08/18/2014 10:00:39 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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