[Sherman Logan]

All in the name of keeping a pot head from smoking a joint, munching on Doritos, and watching cartoons.

To be fair, this case involved meth, not pot.

Meth is the drug created by the government so there would really be a drug as bad as they claimed all drugs were.

That pot should be legalized does not mean meth should be.

[zeugma]

That pot should be legalized does not mean meth should be.

Yeah, if they just legalized all drugs, what would they use as an excuse to murder the constitution?

[varyouga]

Meth is a lower schedule than pot and actually legal by prescription ("Desoxyn"- methamphetamine hydrochloride). All you need is a doctor to deem it beneficial for you. It is prescribed sometimes even for dieting. It is even approved for children.

Yet someone who is dying cannot be prescribed a pot cookie in most states for any reason. They might even have a SWAT team bust in for too many cookies.

And the pigs have the audacity to say pot laws are for our safety

[sargon]

That pot should be legalized does not mean meth should be.

Nobody deserves to go to prison for possessing (or transferring to another adult) any plant, medicine, or recreational chemical. Including meth. Nobody.

If, pursuant to the use of any such substances (whether legal or not) a person violates the rights of others by being negligent or committing actual criminal acts, then (and only then) does criminal (or civil) liability attach. Anything else is Tyranny.

Alcohol is, by an exceedingly wide margin, the worst drug on the face of the earth. Its aggregate negative effects far surpass those of all other drugs combined, whether legal or illegal:

• Criminal assaults resulting in injuries and homicides
• Domestic violence resulting in injuries and homicides
• Domestic abuse resulting in familial misery and decay
• Vehicular incidents resulting injuries and homicides
• Physical and mental health problems resulting in both immediate and lingering death

And yet, because we are ostensibly a free society, a drug such as alcohol remains legal. Indeed, Prohibition was tried for alcohol as well, with the predictable result: the "solution" was worse than the original problem, and was an abject failure.

The Drug War, with the necessarily draconian enforcement strategies and tactics needed to wage it, will continue to result in destruction of both lives and Freedom, while solving nothing, and simultaneously populating our prison system with non-criminals.

Contraband law is inherently Tyrannical, and in America, such "solutions" are antithetical to any reasonable concept of Liberty. To embrace such law is to embrace Tyranny incarnate.

Trying to address certain societal ills with Tyrannical law will never succeed, and will never be justifiable, regardless of the twisted authoritarian nanny-state logic which is employed, and regardless of how well-meaning its misguided advocates may be.

There's only one thing worse than drug legalization, and that is drug prohibition, and the hysterical Tyrannical mindset which clamors to justify it:

• No-knock warrants, and the murder which follows
• Bribes and corruption
• Diversion of resources away from fighting actual crime
• Black markets and the involvement of organized crime
• Trampling of the Fourth Amendment
• Asset forfeiture
• Grenades landing in cribs
• Innocents caught in the crossfire
• Release of real criminals into society, and incarceration of non-criminals (due to mandatory minimum sentencing requirements)

Education, not legislation, is the only potential solution.

It's ironic how both self-righteous Drug War zealots and organized crime are content that drugs remain illegal. Strange bedfellows indeed.

Flame away.