"Please tell us what the government tells you that you must ingest?"
There are places where you, as a loving and responsible parent, can be prosecuted if you don't let the schools dope up your kids with Ritalin should the teacher and school nurse, neither with an MD degree, decide that they want to do so. It HAS happened and has been reported here on FR. Check it out.
First, I whole heartedly agree with parental rights on this issue, and its a valid answer to my question. Thank you for bringing it up.
Would legalizing pot solve that issue? It hasn't solved government overbearance, where it has been legalized in Europe. The nanny states there have become much more overbearing in most all areas, while doing more and more to legalize drugs. Frankly, I don't think there is a connection.
But parental rights aren't all powerful are they? We don't allow incest, nasty beatings, and we struggle with passive failure to seek critical medical treatment.
So because the People in some states are for now allowing what you and I clearly see as an affront to constitutional freedom should we take the power to decide "harm" away from them? If so, who do you give it to? I can't think of anything better, so it is either the going with the People with the realization that we must be ever vigilant and active to keep our neighbors true, OR it is to be armed insurrection. I can reach that point, but not over pot being illegal.