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To: BenLurkin
Your list of effects on the users of MJ is impressive, but no cigar.

Should the gov outlaw the substance because it has those effects? If so, how are you different than the anti-smoking, anti-soda machine, anti-donut crowd who wants the government to control our diets so that we can be healthy.

Also, I believe your comparison is incomplete. It's rare that the users of MJ demonstrate the violent behavior that drunks display.

The basic question for me, is how far do we want the government to go to control the behavior of the citizenry. I like the libertarian definition: outlaw attacks on others and their property and let the government butt out of the rest. There's a big difference between illegal and bad for you.

64 posted on 08/28/2006 8:13:32 AM PDT by osideplanner
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To: osideplanner

His list is a bunch of BS propaganda, nothing more.


91 posted on 08/28/2006 8:44:53 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
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