There’ve also been definitive studies proving that eating too much sugar makes you fat and impairs her cognitive abilities overtime.
I’d rather the government not criminalize or control anything it’s none of their damn business. If your actions are not hurting others or denying others their rights then it is no business of government.
You either have tyranny or you don’t. And when you start out with soft tyranny you end up with a hard tyranny overtime as more and more people in power try to “help the children .”
Using sugar isn’t a moral weakness.
And this guy was paid by the anti-drug people. Having looked at studies, especially for doctoral papers, etc, invariably they are written to support the initial assumption. All results are built to support the assumptions and any data which would interfere with this is discounted as outliers, even if,the preponderance of the proof.
Well, you know what they say. Never get between a libertarian and his hookers and blow. Do you know how to create a libertarian? Just take a conservative and remove all common sense. Libertarianism is a theoretical construct that is only viable in a perfect world with perfect people. When you use and abuse drugs that cause traffic and workplace accidents that injure and kill people then it is absolutely the government’s business. When you fry your brains with dope and the taxpayers have to pay for your medical bills then you harm all of us.
It is our business
Young gullible kids who bought the lie that “hey, no more dangerous than alcohol” or “hey, alcohol’s legal, so why not dope?”
Fools, and I was one of them. The “look at me” and peer pressure contributes to our foolish choices. No thanks. Save for a few possible medicinal uses, it’s just a “recreational” use. We have enough issues without this.
I wish I had never seen the stuff. And I managed to keep at least some common sense to give up it even though it cost my childhood pals/peer group. Years later we reconnected and they said (mostly all) “you were right, it is bad stuff” People mature and realize their stupidity in youth. We owe it to others not to let them make the same mistake, which hurts all of us. Don’t kid yourselves in thinking this just harms the user, it hurts alot of us directly and indirectly.
“I’d rather the government not criminalize or control anything it’s none of their damn business. If your actions are not hurting others or denying others their rights then it is no business of government.”
I could go along with your sentiments if the users faced the consequences on their own or through volunteer actions of others.
Unfortunately in the society we live you and I end up footing the bill and the societal costs of people deciding to ruin their health and their lives.
The worst thing you can have is a society with freedom and no responsibility - which everyday we’re getting more of.
I remember Ron Paul’s farewell speech to congress where he stated something to the effect that the thing that disappointed him most about his stint in Washington that “freedom was such a tough sell”.
Well Ron got it wrong - what he was trying to sell was freedom WITH responsibility. It was the responsibility part that was the hard sell.
The RATS prove it time after time that freedom WITHOUT responsibility is an easy sell. Pot smoking is only the latest. Freedom to marry who or what you like, freedom to have kids out of wedlock and have the government pay for it, freedom to not work, freedom to vandalize stores, etc etc etc.
Years ago I read of an account of Japanese soldiers killing themselves after losing a battle. The suicides became so prolific that the Emperor had to strictly forbid the practice. You see, having soldiers kill themselves needlessly hurt their war effort.
I would argue that soldiers killing themselves was very much the business of a Government that needed them.
I think members of society are also needed. A government can tolerate some doing it, but at some point when it reaches a critical threshold, a government cannot survive if people keep doing it.
Eating sugar won’t make one hallucinate, impair driving, or attack someone. What about PCP and other drugs that cause violent behavior?
It seems there is no turning back on the increasing use and availability of drugs, but it could destroy society. How many big cities now have addicts lying around with no hope and no future? For that matter, all the teen and college age binge drinkers are pickling their brains. a large portion of the populace spending as much of their waking hours as they can drunk or high does not bode well for our future.