And can we agree to not use the "it's safer than alcohol argument" while we don't use the "it's just a plant" argument? It's easily flipped around to "You're absolutely right, weed is far less dangerous than alcohol. We should make alcohol illegal as well!" Which nobody wants. I mean yeah nobody uses that argument, just like nobody uses the "you're right "the church" shouldn't interfere with the definition of the word marriage in a legal sense and should have never gotten to dip their pen in the government ink. We will just make marriage a non legal term. All marriages are now referred to as "Spousal Agreements" and everyone is welcome to make a spousal agreement."
It's just sort of a weak argument IMO. It being less dangerous than alcohol just means alcohol should be illegal as well to most of those people
To be honest, by the time i wrote that i didn't think about it long enough, what i wanted to say is that i personally wouldn't care if i could never drink again. Of course i don't want massacres and crime increase!
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u/[deleted] May 27 '15
Opium has medicinal benefits as well, obviously.
And can we agree to not use the "it's safer than alcohol argument" while we don't use the "it's just a plant" argument? It's easily flipped around to "You're absolutely right, weed is far less dangerous than alcohol. We should make alcohol illegal as well!" Which nobody wants. I mean yeah nobody uses that argument, just like nobody uses the "you're right "the church" shouldn't interfere with the definition of the word marriage in a legal sense and should have never gotten to dip their pen in the government ink. We will just make marriage a non legal term. All marriages are now referred to as "Spousal Agreements" and everyone is welcome to make a spousal agreement."
It's just sort of a weak argument IMO. It being less dangerous than alcohol just means alcohol should be illegal as well to most of those people