Pretty poor argument here - now do guns. Bottom line, I, like many other people, feel that marijuana is better than or at least equal to alcohol and should be treated the same. Are the penalties for causing a fatal accident while drunk stiffer than sober? This should be the same. Now take a look at numbers of non-driving desks related to alcohol compared to weed.
Tell that to someone who has been crashed into by a pothead on a freeway going 60+mph, which I personally have. Miraculously, no one got hurt. My newborn was in the car. It was an act of God, but the skunky driver walked away with no punishment (this was in California). Yes, alcohol is also an issue. I'm not arguing that. But, the more mind-altering substances we allow, the worse everything gets--(particularly accidents and cultural decay) Would you say it's generally a good thing for you and your kids to be subjected to skunky potheads whenever you go out, like one does in ANY city/town where it has been legalized? If you haven't been to a liberal city/town in awhile, I implore you to take your family on an outing to experience firsthand the richness that marijuana has added to these population centers. You have to ask yourself as a father, do the benefits of allowing weed outweigh the negatives? Do I like the world I see around me where weed is heavily apart of the culture day to day?
Guns aren't the same as marijuana because you don't have an inalienable right to weed. The founders intended that we have an obligation to defend ourselves from tyranny which is only possible through bearing arms. I used to be very libertarian and thought along the lines of you with weed, even though I don't smoke it myself. Witnessing the cultural decay over the course of a few decades made me more religious and now I see whenever a society deviates from God's plan you have the kind of world that you have fled from. Altering your cognition is not in accordance with God's plan for us. It's just another vice that separates us from our spiritual connection to a higher power and allowing it widespread harms us overall.
Anyway, that's where I'm coming from. I think we're in a spiritual war. I probably didn't change your mind, but maybe you'll start noticing things about the way the world is and how we got here/where we are going. Thanks for the discussion.
Pretty poor argument here - now do guns. Bottom line, I, like many other people, feel that marijuana is better than or at least equal to alcohol and should be treated the same. Are the penalties for causing a fatal accident while drunk stiffer than sober? This should be the same. Now take a look at numbers of non-driving desks related to alcohol compared to weed.
Tell that to someone who has been crashed into by a pothead on a freeway going 60+mph, which I personally have. Miraculously, no one got hurt. My newborn was in the car. It was an act of God, but the skunky driver walked away with no punishment (this was in California). Yes, alcohol is also an issue. I'm not arguing that. But, the more mind-altering substances we allow, the worse everything gets--(particularly accidents and cultural decay) Would you say it's generally a good thing for you and your kids to be subjected to skunky potheads whenever you go out, like one does in ANY city/town where it has been legalized? If you haven't been to a liberal city/town in awhile, I implore you to take your family on an outing to experience firsthand the richness that marijuana has added to these population centers. You have to ask yourself as a father, do the benefits of allowing weed outweigh the negatives? Do I like the world I see around me where weed is heavily apart of the culture day to day?
Guns aren't the same as marijuana because you don't have an inalienable right to weed. The founders intended that we have an obligation to defend ourselves from tyranny which is only possible through bearing arms. I used to be very libertarian and thought along the lines of you with weed, even though I don't smoke it myself. Witnessing the cultural decay over the course of a few decades made me more religious and now I see whenever a society deviates from God's plan you have the kind of world that you have fled from. Altering your cognition is not in accordance with God's plan for us. It's just another vice that separates us from our spiritual connection to a higher power and allowing it widespread harms us overall.
Anyway, that's where I'm coming from. I think we're in a spiritual war. I probably didn't change your mind, but maybe you'll start noticing things about the way the world is and how we got here/where we are going. Thanks for the discussion.