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Originally posted by Tomservo
Do we really need more legal ways to get high? Aren't we supposed to be cultivating more hard work and ambition? (This isn't to suggest all stoners have little ambition, but if you don't already, it definitely won't inspire you to work hard)
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Its not the government's role to tell us what we can or can't do in order to create a more productive nation. The only justifications I can think of for the government to restrict personal choice in this area is that :
a) The drug is highly addictive and thus doesn't give you a real chance to exercise personal freedom.
b) Use of the drug causes you to do serious harm to others in society/seriously damage their ability to exercise their own freedom
c) The drug is so obviously dangreous that no rational person would take it
Beyond these the government can certainly regulate how they are sold, tax them, inform the public about the dangers of them and so on, but an outright ban (or taking any of the afore mentioned measures to such an extreme that it effectivly creates an outright ban) is an encrochment of government on personal liberty. I don't think any of these apply to pot, so I say legalize it!