Quote:I didn't say that, I do however support a free market deciding what's tolerably and what's not over a selected minority in a distant office passing laws. I'm not an anarchist but I also don't subscribe to the notion we need regulations and restrictions to prevent people from doing bad things.

 

As an employer I don't want my employees on heroin, as a landlord I wouldn't allow my tenants to use heroin, as a bank I wouldn't lend money to people that used heroin. A removal of restrictions and regulations would also be a removing of publicly funded programs that allow individuals making poor to destructive choices to survive in society.

 

there's some merit to what Tommy's saying I don't know if he realizes the full implications of it, but it's there.

That's what Tommy was saying though. No prohibition of anything means open and legal, production, sale, and use of everything. That's a dangerous road. I'm not an anti-marijuana guy, btw. I just recognize that some amount of regulation and restriction is necessary for a society to exist. Without it, the world falls into anarchy.

 

Quote:If Regulations and restrictions keep the order, why did prohibition fail in the first place?

The use of alcohol was already engrained into the American populace and as such society. Prohibition came about because of concerns regarding excessive use of alcohol in the US. It's harder to stop people than it is to prevent them from starting. I'm not calling for the reintroduction of prohibition, I just feel that no limitations on what can be made, sold, and used is a plan destined for failure.

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