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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1312536" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Is pot harmful? Yes. So are alcohol, tobacco, salt, fatty foods, high fructose corn syrup, gambling, pornography, and any number of legal things that human beings tend to find desirable.</p><p></p><p>The relevant question here is not whether or not pot is harmful; the relevant question is "is the governments infringement upon our right to freely choose whether or not to use marijuana justified?" and I would say the answer is "no."</p><p></p><p>I believe that adults in a supposedly free society should have the right to freely choose what substances they wish to put into their own bodies. I will qualify that by stating that there are substances such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines that are so addictive that most humans are incapable of exercising free choice around their use, and they are so toxic that the public good demands that they continue to be prohibited. By any rational standard, however, marijuana <em>cannot </em>be compared to these substances, and there is no legitimate reason for our government to continue prohibiting its use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1312536, member: 14668"] Is pot harmful? Yes. So are alcohol, tobacco, salt, fatty foods, high fructose corn syrup, gambling, pornography, and any number of legal things that human beings tend to find desirable. The relevant question here is not whether or not pot is harmful; the relevant question is "is the governments infringement upon our right to freely choose whether or not to use marijuana justified?" and I would say the answer is "no." I believe that adults in a supposedly free society should have the right to freely choose what substances they wish to put into their own bodies. I will qualify that by stating that there are substances such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines that are so addictive that most humans are incapable of exercising free choice around their use, and they are so toxic that the public good demands that they continue to be prohibited. By any rational standard, however, marijuana [I]cannot [/I]be compared to these substances, and there is no legitimate reason for our government to continue prohibiting its use. [/QUOTE]
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