Missing The Point Again
The medical marijuana or marijuana debates simply specify a level of rationality. Just how smart should we be as a society is closer to the real issue. Conversely, just how stupid will the law allow. If you are missing my point then join the vast majority of Americans engaged in these debates. The presumption that you or your government has the right to tell anyone, anywhere that they cannot ingest, inject, inhale or otherwise use any substance for any reason they see fit, is absurd. To justify such prohibitions citing public safety is valid for antibiotics or virulent or explosive substances, but what is the reasoning behind a marijuana prohibition? Equateing things that are not equal is foolish. Marajuana is not an automatic weapon.
Even after the repeal of Prohibition a wound festers in the American psyche. The belief that substances hold reign over the human mind and spirit persist to this day. The battle for Prohibition was permeated with this insidious concept. Our government did not retract the concept behind Prohibition. Only the law was retracted. Having salvaged this falsehood from what was supposed to have been a defunct policy, legislators proceeded to perpetrate many more prohibitions on this society. To foist this Stepford society on a free people, whose personal liberty is self-evidently unalienable, is a crime not a law.
Yet we tolerate this most outrageous presumption like a cow on the way to dinner. To argue that our government needs to intrude so egregiously in personal matters belittles the real issue. Personal liberty is not up for a vote in this country. Is it not self-evident? Your government is not supposed to be controlling behavior; they are supposed to be protecting you and your rights. The contrived evolution of our society is not only beyond government purview; it is a direct assault on personal liberty. Exporting our prohibitions is a worldwide attack on personal liberty.
Allowing sick people access to a drug will some day be known for the arrogant condescension that it is. In that day police will restrain those who would block anyone’s access to drugs, not because people, police or drugs are inherently good, but because We The People are inherently free.
Rick Wolfe