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So now that various states are legalizing recreational marijuana, where do we go from here?

Illegal drugs are illegal for a reason. The reasons being, that these drugs are dangerous to one’s health or mind or well being.

We should tread very carefully in this area.

I would be concerned we’re on a slippery slope. If we’re saying marijuana is ok, then is heroin ok too? What about other illegal drugs?

Have we gotten so liberal/libertarian in our outlook on things, that we are saying, we can’t make any judgements about people or situations?

And are we saying that since government can tax and regulate this activity, that means we should legalize and tax and regulate anything because government will get tax revenue from it?

We are saying that current marijuana laws are in the class of victimless crimes, aren’t we?

So then, when do we open the floodgates and legalize every banned substance, so that government and tax and regulate it?

And if we go down that road in that line of reasoning, then we should also legalize prostitution. Holy moley, I can just imagine the tax revenue available there.

But how can you justify any vice being illegal, if we’re saying the “holy grail” is whether government can tax something, and that we should not make any moral or ethical judgements about what people are doing????