Most of my argument is in comment 54 (there are very specific circumstances in which I would support marijuana legalization, and I do find it annoying how readily people defend alcohol but not marijuana).
On your first point, the liberty of some should not come at the expense of the liberty of others. With today’s idiotic welfare system and refusal to politically profile people, I would inevitably be paying taxes towards welfare queens’ drug habit. With today’s system, drug legalization is Marxist.
On anti-depressant drugs, I mistyped, sorry. Given that there is even more evidence for those causing mental illness, school shootings, and dependency than there is for marijuana causing those, would you argue for them remaining legal?
In a free society, individual liberties don't have to be proven a "benefit" to be respected - they're the default position.
With today’s idiotic welfare system and refusal to politically profile people, I would inevitably be paying taxes towards welfare queens’ drug habit.
You're already doing that today - and she's spending a lot more of your money than she would if she were paying the free-market price for drugs rather than the black-market price. Not to mention the taxes you're paying towards enforcing anti-marijuana laws.
Should we legalize the anti-depressants which play a major role in getting liberals to shoot up our schools?
They're already legal.
I mistyped, sorry. Given that there is even more evidence for those causing mental illness, school shootings, and dependency than there is for marijuana causing those, would you argue for them remaining legal?
I think they're overprescribed, and I'm very open to further regulation of them (even at the federal level, since they're interstate commerce).