Quote:My children abstaining from that life style will have everything to do with how I raise them and who I allow them to be around, and almost nothing to do with what any authority figure says is right or wrong.

 

There's literally hundreds of things that can get you high sold at WalMart every day. And yet some how we as a society are able to regulate ourselves from falling into complete chaos without needing regulations against these items.

 

The war on drugs, much like the war on poverty is simply an excuse for a select minority to display power over you. I oppose that projection of authority  chance I get.

Are you aware that you have to be 18 in order to purchase sharpies? This is because kids were trying to get high using them.


Are you aware that you have to be 18 in order to purchase spray paint? This is because kids were using it to get high.


There are regulations in place for many of those items, it just so happens that they have practical uses that outweigh the relatively small portion of people that would use them to get high. Out of curiosity, what would you say is a practical use for heroin? I don't imagine that there is one, but I'll admit that I don't know enough about the stuff to be absolutely certain.

 

Just because something can get you high doesn't mean that it should be banned entirely and just because something can get you high doesn't mean that it's comparable to things like heroin.

 

A world without regulations is anarchy. That's a fact. It's also a fact that anarchy is a terrible idea if you want to have anything that even slightly resembles modern society.

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