Re: ISTOOK: The blunt truth — White house drug czar contradicts Obama on marijuana
so if a stoned out fool , all wasted and jolly crashes their car into someone and hurts or kills them or their family.. it does not "infringe on the victims rights"....
The car crashing into you infringes on your right...not the being stoned.
Just like a guy talking on the phone while driving and crashes a car into you infringes upon your rights by crashing into you...not by talking on a cell phone.
Just like a guy drinking and then driving and crashes a car into you infringes upon your rights by crashing into you...not by drinking.
Just like a guy trying to eat while driving and crashes a car into you infringes upon your rights by crashing into you....not by eating.
Just like a guy whose on 2 hours of sleep and crashes a car into you infringines upon your rights by crashing into you...not be being deprived of sleep.
It's hillarious watching a group of people normally on the side decrying "Guns don't kill people, People kill people" and suggesting people should blame the PERSON, not the OBJECT, basically turn around and blame the thing.
If someone crashes their car into you,
THAT'S the action infringing upon your right. Not the texting, the smoking, the eating, the drinking, or anything else...it's the CRASHING INTO YOU that is the infringement.
If someone crashes into you, that is not justification to make weed illegal anymore than it is to make less than 8 hours of sleep a night illegal or making texting illegal. There's justification for perhaps making those actions WHILE driving illegal, but again...that's different than the item/action by itself.
Now, I agree that there's significant things that would need to happen to make legalization happen in a repsonsable manner. I'm not a rose colored glasses type of guy. For example, I'm absolutely someone that believes driving while intoxicated, whether it's weed or alcohol, is something that should be illegal. And I absolutely believe we'd need to find a test for that. And guess what, I'm a fan of this crazy "free market" thing and believe that some sort of quick response test would likely be able to be discovered if there was a viable market for it...say, if suddenly marijuana was legal and so every police station in the country would need said testing unit. Are there hurdles to get over? Absolutley. "Wahhh, it'd be difficult" however isn't a reason to NOT do something to me however.
Neither are poor analogies that are ridiculous on their very surface.