OnlyAmbrose wrote:Incidentally that's not true. The writers of the Constitution were mostly of the opinion that divorces should have to pass through state courts, that homosexuality should be shunned in all ways shapes and forms, and more than half of them believed that it should be a criminal offense to speak against the government (note the Sedition Act, passed by Congress and signed by George Washington). What's more, a good number of them who hailed from New England or some of the central states were Puritans, and thus believed in the prohibition of alcohol (Maine, a descendent of Massachusetts, enacted such a law in the early 1800s)
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that you should be able to do anything you want as long as it doesn't infringe upon someone else's rights. Nor was that an opinion of the vast majority of Constitutional framers.
That may be, but this is a free country. In a free society, you don't need a reason to make something legal; you need a reason to make something illegal. If the medical professionals are correct, there is no good reason for marijuana to be illegal. Now, while cocaine and heroin may have more ODs, there really is no reason for those to be illegal either. In fact, i'll go even further and say that all laws restricting personal freedom (i.e. laws regarding abortion, suicide, gambling, drugs, the wearing of seatbelts and helmets) should be repealed.
Let's let people decide for themselves if they want to end their own lives through various stupidities.
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