Quote Originally Posted by Dingo View Post
Didn't really intend it as a pro/vs pot thread, but oh well.

Pot should be legalized across the board with the same age/driving restrictions as alcohol. Unless you want to ban alcohol too, but we saw how well that worked. I agree with Ronin on the medical thing being a farce. People have, do, and will smoke it regardless of the laws. Let's not pretend it's medical only anymore, and just admit people like to get high. The pretense is stupid.

But I also think one should be able to buy a cartload of heroin and belt-fed machine guns at the counter in Walmart too. And reap capital consequences if their actions injure anyone else. On their own time, affecting them only, I say legalize EVERYTHING, and allow Darwin to have his say in our gene pool again.

But I'm just a tinfoiled Libertarian.... never mind me. :-)
This. It will be brutal the first few years and lots of innocent and otherwise good people may die as a result but the long-term benefits of a gene pool cleansing will put us back in a commanding lead as a nation. Too many generations of creating laws to protect idiots from themselves has got us to the point were are now at. Pot is legal and I choose not to smoke it. Drinking bleach is legal and I also choose not to do that. I would guess that not having common sense or average intelligence would make such decisions difficult and I would want some large entity to care for me as an adult when I should be able to care for myself would be desirable. It's just too bad the majority of our nation now fits this mold and liberties and freedoms have to be sacrificed as a result.