You call yourself conservative... why are you so dead set against conserving the God-given RIGHT of an individual to own and control his own body? Why do you, like your statist counterparts of the radical Left, insist that my body, for example, is YOURS to control? I will grant you, for the sake of argument, that recreational use of drugs (INCLUDING the killer drugs, alcohol and tobacco) is not a "good" thing. However, what makes it YOUR business what some other consenting adult puts into his or her body? Except for the notion that somehow you have the "right" to make decisions for others and enforce them at the point of the Government's gun... This totally bogus claim has its roots in the same vile notions of the Leftists you claim to despise so much.
Our Founders gave us a Constitution based on the then-novel notion that WE, THE PEOPLE, are each and individually the owner of our own body; that we are NOT the property of government; that we are completely capable of SELF-RULE and that busybodies like you have no place here in our society.
It has long been my contention that marijuana should be legalized. This step alone would remove it from the underground drug culture and bring it out in to the open. The ability to acquire it would be eased thus removing it as a "gateway" drug for youngsters. Not being introduced into the drug culture would result in fewer young people experimenting with more dangerous drugs. The end result would be less crime and more jail space for more serious crimes.
Great post. We need passion.
THAT's why I disagree with all you pot pushin Libertarians... If everyone were an adult and schools weren't filled with dope smokin teachers, some tryin to have sex with juveniles, then you might have a Libertarian Leg to stand on!!!
You're tryin to act like it's already a perfect world, just like the Liberals, so don't be attackin Conservatives who want to raise offspring in the real world!!!
He's a newbie, Dave, just looking for division.
Bump for liberty! And the ridicule of totalitarian "conservatives".