Re: Frida y F ive J une 7
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The basis for law should be whether the swinging of your arm reaches the next person's nose.
If your actions only effect you - they are legal.? Marijuana and alcohol should be controlled only to the degree that they effect others - though parents need to be cautioned lest they effect their children - drug babies being the worst example.
Marvin
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<<Are you arguing that if X percent of people disobey a law, it's a bad law?
Or are you arguing that if the cost of enforcing a law is higher than Y, the law should be eliminated?
Or you arguing that if Z percent of people want to do something, they should be allowed to do it?>>
No, my main argument is that adults should be able to make their own decisions about what they put into their bodies. If an adult wants to smoke marijuana, drink alcohol, eat high fat foods, or anything else, that should be their right as an adult. If health insurance wants to charge them higher premiums, they can (and currently do with smoking tobacco.) If they commit crimes while under the influence of marijuana or drinking alcohol, then that should not be accepted in any way as an excuse for the crimes they committed. I was not clear about this in my original posting.
But unfortunately, we live in a society where busybodies want to control other people¡¯s decisions, even though those decisions have no bearing on their own life. That is why I offered the secondary argument for busybodies, who don¡¯t care about people¡¯s freedom or independence, that making marijuana illegal does directly affect their lives in the various ways I mentioned (where as marijuana being legal does not affect their lives.)
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Rhonda
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