[Pelham]

How extensive is your contact with drug users?

I’m not surprised to see that your objections are confined to legal arguments rather than addressing the impact of drug use on those around drug users. I suspect your experience is either nil or nothing more than smoking a few joints in college.

BTW, is it just a coincidence that the rise of the drug culture paralleled the rise of leftism in American culture? Those of us who grew up in the 60s could hardly fail to notice the connection.

[OneWingedShark]

How extensive is your contact with drug users?

Admittedly not too much: I know one (prescription drug) who was shady, and one MJ who is a pretty great guy.

I’m not surprised to see that your objections are confined to legal arguments rather than addressing the impact of drug use on those around drug users

Maybe that's because I'm actually more interested in Law than Sociology.
Does that invalidate my viewpoint? Or arguments?

BTW, is it just a coincidence that the rise of the drug culture paralleled the rise of leftism in American culture? Those of us who grew up in the 60s could hardly fail to notice the connection.

And I can hardly fail to notice the correlation between statism and the proliferation of laws, especially those which are selectively applied.

[tacticalogic]

I’m not surprised to see that your objections are confined to legal arguments rather than addressing the impact of drug use on those around drug users.

I find that a disturbing argument. When we start believing that "feelings" constitute an enumeration of power to the federal government, the Constitution is lost.