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Originally posted by utabintarbo
That's true. And...?
By what standard? By what right does the government tell me how I live my life?
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...then by extension, child pornography would become legal.
The governmental institution isn't there to tell you how to live your life: it's there to balance your rights versus your freedoms. You're otherwise free to do anything you want, any way you want it.
Our governments have the difficult task of balancing our rights, as individuals, and as a society, versus the freedom we all enjoy.
We're not free to just kill anyone, because it infringes on our individual rights, and our social rights. That one is pretty obvious.
It's when we get into pot that it becomes a lot more "grey". There are drugs curently available that mimick the effects of marijuana, and they were designed for that purpose too!
Maybe a better exercise here, would be to try to answer the question: why is marijuana illegal? Regardless of your position, just try...
Where's a good lawyer when you need one? (A: probably sitting at his desk, waiting for the next sucker to fork out $300 for an hour of his time!)