“If a man wants to smoke, dope, or shoot himself to death he should be welcome to do so.’
Were it only so, that the consequences of one person’s acts applied only to himself! But you know that when marijuana is legalized, the reset of use will pay many times over: we will pay for the drug itself as part of some federal health plan, just as we already pay for dubious psychotherapies and various chiropractic treatments.
Then we will pay for the results: crimes by intoxicated “medicated” addicts, and treatments and support when their brains have been fried by years of psychedelic therapy.
I would be willing g to loosen drug laws if every person were required to pay for his own healthcare. By the way, then people would take much better care of themselves, and health standards might actually improve.
But we are far from this state of freedom, when a huge proportion of the population collects food stamps, apparently unable or unwilling to even feed themselves.
An infantile, dependent attitude (encouraged fully by the government) is well excepted in our declining society.
Violent crime has plunged in CA since medical marijuana was started in 1996.¹ According to your questionable and unsupported claim, that shouldn't have happened.
Your evidence for increased crime is...?
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¹http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/cacrime.htm