[A CA Guy]

Laws against it are a ticketable offense only unless they are dealing. The law is about where it needs to be right now, that is why. We don't want to approve of it, it is a crime.

[MrLeRoy]

Laws against it are a ticketable offense only unless they are dealing. The law is about where it needs to be right now, that is why. We don't want to approve of it, it is a crime.

None of that answers my question: Why is it any more the government's business to coercively reduce use of marijuana than to reduce use of alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, saturated fats, etc?

[E Rocc]

We don't want to approve of it, it is a crime.

-Herbert Hoover, 1931.

Actually, one of the signs of a healthy free society is the ability to disapprove of something without neccesarily desiring that it be banned by law.

-Eric