What about McDonalds? The overuse of fatty fast foods by poor people contributes to their bad health then taxpayers have to pay for their healthcare.
MYTH: Poor people can't afford to eat a healthy diet. I know that's BS because I am far from rich, have been even less rich, and NEVER fed myself or family on fast food. It's cheaper to eat the healthier foods. Someone asked me once if I ever 'treated' my kids to McDonalds or Burger King. I don't consider that a treat.
Should fast food be outlawed?
What about sodas?
What about cigarettes?
If the rationale for outlawing marajuana is that the taxpayer has to pick up the tab due to abuse by people who use it then all of those things should be outlawed as well.
The argument about fast food, cigarettes and soda is goofy and has no place in the discussion, EXCEPT once more, if you abuse them you shouldn't come crying to others for help after you've told them to stay out of your business.
I didn't rationalize outlawing marijuana because of the cost to taxpayers. What I posted was this-
Yes, stay out of your 'private home life' UNTIL you need us for something.
AND one last time, those things, soda, fast food, cigarettes don't alter the person's mind, make them high, drunk, whatever you want to call it.
Does the benefit from the War on Drugs justify the cost? The resounding answer is no.
I don't know the answer to that. I'd have to guess that yes, the war on drugs benefits us, because as available as drugs are now I can only imagine what it would be like with no one trying to stop it. What qualifies you to say it doesn't work?
One more problem with people, Americans in particular, they all want their recreation, and immediate gratification, and if that includes drugs to alter their minds, to **** with anyone that thinks that's wrong. I've said it as many ways as I can say it, to **** with the wimps that have to be medicated for their recreation. To **** with screwed up people that don't want to face reality and want to muddle up their minds to get by. I may have two drinks a year, maybe. Maybe none. It depends on where I am and how good they make a margarita, the mood I'm in, what I'm eating, then only one. I don't sit and drink them until I don't know I'm in the world, and then get into a car and drive home. Oh, but that's not fun, not enough pleasure is it?
People talk about how they drink beer because they like the taste. Fine, if you have one, I might understand that, but to drink them all day, or have to have 'a few' every day kinda puts that liking the taste thing to lie. They want to get drunk. THAT'S the part I don't get, that having to be stoned out of their minds with something all the time. Drugs, alcohol, doing what makes them happy at any cost means more to those people than anything else, and yes, they disgust me. And given the number who seem to want that constant fogginess in their brains, it's no wonder we're a country of push overs.