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The reason it is illegal is because:
We are adults and live in a free country where the government serves the people and doesn't stick it's nose in where it doesn't belong. Right?
Wait a minute...I just gave the reason that anything and everything should be legal.
A few years ago I was listening to an interview with Al Lewis (the actor that played Grandpa Munster). He was in his 80's (he died in 2006) and he was arguing for legalization. His opponent in the debate used the argument that legalizing it would cause all sorts of problems for society.
Al Lewis called bullshit on that by pointing out that ALL drugs were legal when he was a kid. He recalled going to the drug store and buying HEROIN over the counter for his grandmother when he was 8 years old. And folks...those were what the conservative religious wackos have trained us all to believe were the "good old days"
By contrast...in our "free" country today...I sent my teenage daughter into the drug store to get some Nyquil and they refused to sell it to her because she was not 18! WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!
Their rationale was that some people drink the Nyquil to get drunk.
My response was: WHAT THE FUCK BUSINESS IS IT OF YOURS OR ANYBODY ELSE WHAT ANOTHER PERSON DECIDES TO DO IN THEIR LIVES.
They had no answer. The people running Walgreens are of this generation and don't remember what it was like to EVER live free. They grew up being forced to take piss tests, having the police search them and their vehicles, and being under the thumb of govt. visa a thousand little laws that regulate their lives.
Hell, you can't even smoke a cigarette in a bar!
And for the record, I don't smoke pot or cigarettes...or even take heroin.
But I don't understand why the govt. sees fit to make personal decisions for people.
Yeah, I know "because it will cost us all in terms of paying for their medical bills"
Well...how about this then...The govt. is the ones who started all of this "paying" for other people's medical bills. Sounded good at the time. But guess what? All it really did was give the govt. all of this power over our lives.
Free country? Bullshit.
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