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5 Years for Passing a Joint: Stop this Bill Now | 93 comments (93 topical)
Re: 5 Years for Passing a Joint: Stop this Bill No (none / 0) (#51)
by pigwiggle on Fri Apr 15, 2005 at 04:55:47 PM EST
The ‘children might see it argument’, aside being wide of the topic, is unconvincing for several reasons. The largest; adults and even parents regularly indulge in activities that would be harmful to a child if allowed, not to mention perhaps harmful even for adults. I’ll spare you the laundry list, but one example is helmets. Adults often do not wear helmets when biking, skiing, skating, etc.; dollars to donuts head injuries kill or otherwise disable many more children than using marijuana. Anyway… The real story in this for me is how folks simply don’t care about the inherently paternalistic nature of this kind of legislation. If marijuana was harmful and addictive I doubt few here would have a problem with punishing enablers. What if this were a heroin dealer giving his former customer post rehab a free spike to get him back; do the opinions change?

5 Years for Passing a Joint: Stop this Bill Now | 93 comments (93 topical)

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