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Yes pot is bad for you, so is saturated fat and CNN. That doesn't mean the federal government should make it illegal. Leave that up to the states to decide. If your state wants to make it illegal, then have at it. I'm all about shrinking the government here, that is all. The only vice I currently have right now is a cigar or cigarette like 2-3 times a week and that's it. I don't even eat a whole lot of ice cream right now, but I do like hamburgers. That doesn't mean that I want my tax dollars going toward stopping people from engaging in vice, which they will do no matter how much of my money goes toward locking them up.

I think legal perscription drugs are a far greater problem right now than anything else. But guess what, a lot of people still need those drugs to cope with the pain and inflamation. You can't throw out freedom in exchange for security. Never.

As far as legalization making it more available to children. Who's fault is that? I see most parents send their kids to public schools instead of a good private school or homeschool. I also see most parents let their kids hang out and do whatever. I say it's either the parents' fault for not teaching their kids right and wrong or the kid's fault for choosing that lifestyle. Either way indidivuals will be free to make both wrong and right choices in life and, for the most part, my taxdollars should not and will not be able to stop that. When they cross the line and destory my property or like you said screw up my operation, then the lawsuits come. Live and learn.

"I say it's either the parents' fault for not teaching their kids right and wrong or the kid's fault for choosing that lifestyle. Either way indidivuals will be free to make both wrong and right choices in life and, for the most part, my taxdollars should not and will not be able to stop that"

Nonsense. You can be the best parent in the world, but that will not stop the temptation of peer pressure your kid has to face every day at school.
No matter how hard you want to believe your kid will made sound, rational decisions, guess what? They won't. Why? because they are kids. Their minds aren't fully developed, and at that age, they are beginning to have hormones racing through them, making rational thinking even more difficult. So, kids will be kids, and some will get sucked into trying it. And after that, maybe trying something else. You can't just blame the parents of every kid who does.

Whether you like it or not, we live in a society, and it is that society which determines the laws we have to keep our society and children in it reasonable safe and yes free.

No society can be free and safe without laws and the means to enforce them and punishment for breaking them.

You seem to forget that I have tax dollars as well, and in a democratic society, it's the majority of taxpayers that determine what is or isn't illegal, and what my tax money will pay for.
I will not pay for the destruction to society uncontrolled recreational drug use will cause, it's already costing far too much. You interpretation of freedom comes with a price that obliterates the rights and freedom and LIFE of others, and that is just not acceptable.

"I think legal perscription drugs are a far greater problem right now than anything else. But guess what, a lot of people still need those drugs to cope with the pain and inflamation. You can't throw out freedom in exchange for security. Never."

Not a chance. BUT, again, toss the person breaking the law in prison. It is the LACK of punishment in this country that is the problem, not the law.

And loosening the law definitely will NOT make anything better, in fact the problems of drug abuse will just explode, costing your FAR more than the "war on drugs" does now. And, it would erode your freedom far more that you think as well. The freedom to walk down the street without being mugged, the freedom to have windows in your house, doors that don't have to be made of 1/2 thick steel to keep thieves out.

Living in a lawless society is not any kind of "freedom" It's hell.