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Originally Posted by rubecube
Sorry, but that's a really poor argument to stand on. What do you think is more harmful to a person's psyche long term; smoking pot or going to jail? In my eyes, people are responsible for themselves, not legislators. If the government wants to become the overbearing mother of its citizens, then there needs to be no discrepancies and alcohol, tobacco, fast food, etc should all be criminalized.
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As much as we like to say that people are responsible to themselves, right now there are boundries to how far those limits can go based under the law.
At the end of the day we ask our elected officals to make laws and recind laws, but we give them the responsibility to make those laws for us by proxy.
If recinding the dope laws were really that important, there would be far more pressure on the government to do it.
but to me people don't think its that crucial of an issue right now.
If it was then the green grass party would have won a protest seat or two in Parliment.