“...we do have a vested interest in seeing to it that those who partake do not become a danger to ourselves and others. It also stands to civil decency that we act within reason to prevent people from hurting themselves.”
I hold that the “others” take responsibility rather than asking gooberment goobers to do it for them.
After all, we do believe in free will and personal responsibility.
I understand that. But it is a legitimate function of government, indeed an essential one, to protect life. Those goobers are OUR goobers, or at least they should be. Proper authority derives from God, then to parents, then to civil authority. There is a proper use of creation when it comes to recreation, including altered states of awareness within reason. But . . . human nature needs a curb.
Difficult ground to tread, when people want to put curbs on others that are unnecessary and actually tend toward more violent criminal activity instead of less.
God gives us “free will” and man takes it away. Free will comes with responsibility in society. Doing drugs is not an offense against society in and of itself. It’s what they do while on the drugs that becomes a problem.