Quote Originally Posted by Jeffrey Lebowski View Post
Right, but my point is you set a single bar on a very blurred item. You addressed the extremes which I used specifically for that example, but didn't address any of the blurred drugs. Incidentally, uranium is, in fact, used medically.

The fact is, you can't have any weapon or even any firearm you want. Even though it may be extremely useful. Society has created tiers or protection and guardrails against that.
I'm not so sure why you think the schedules we have created for drugs is so much different and so much more unfair. You can argue that there are things that haven't been scheduled correctly or fairly, and there would be folks making the same analogy about various firearm related things, perhaps magazine capacity, perhaps rate of fire, perhaps sound attenuation.

Again, the answer isn't to just remove all guardrails and trust in people. $0.02 You got your pot. You fought for it (individually) and got it. That is appropriate. Just like we'll fight for magazine capacity. What drug do you want now? But we don't just throw out all regulations, especially on drugs.
But you don't want them to ban guns, when with a single gun you could hurt far more people than any amount of illicit drug. That's my point. If I've got a pound of heroin, how am I going to hurt anyone with it? Throw it up in the air? Spray it from an airplane? Throw the bag in your eye? I could give it to you. Yeah, I could give you a gun too.

I trust you with your gun. I trust you with your drugs. That's all I'm saying. If you want to hurt someone with either one, you will pay the price.