I would say count me in that tiny percentage, but you are still confusing the issues of legalizing and promoting. You do understand there is a difference, do you not?
Example:
Until the mid to late 60s (not sure of dates), pornography was not legal in the US.
But thanks to the commie founded ACLU and porn producers, porn is now saturating the society, and has caused tremendous harm.
The US gov is not “promoting” porn - no gov ads for it - but the leftist agenda is to legalize every bit of depravity and vice, destroy the family and societal restraint and morality and voila! Ripe for tyranny.
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites—in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity;—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere: and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
— Edmund Burke
My personal view about mj is that people should be allowed to grow it but SOLELY for their own use. No buying, no selling, no “giving away”. That would bring the price down to almost nothing. So people who want to become stupid and mentally ill will be free to do so but no drug pushing, no narco cartels, no banks enriching themselves with money laundering and no politicians taking bank money to continue with the WOD that keeps the prices nice and high.
And penalties for selling dope?
Public canings.
If this was enacted, in one year there would be no mj problem. Additionally, any employer who would want to do drug tests to eliminate mj users, fine. You play, you pay.
Other drugs such as for instance meth, anyone selling or manufacturing - death sentence.
Opium? Let people grow their own poppies and get stupid.
But no one likes my plan. Takes every penny out of the trade, but people can use if they want to be stupid. People sometimes whine about poor disabled people who cant’ grow it.
Too bad. Even someone in a wheelchair can grow potted plants.