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Originally Posted by IliketoPuck
Who are you to potentially condemn your parents or siblings to a lifetime of caring for you when your choices may have amplified the chance of developing a mental health disorder? Who are you to make the average taxpayer responsible for your well being for the rest of your life due to those choices?
Obviously, people are going to develop the disorders regardless of substance intake, it is unavoidable.
But what about those who willfully increase their risk of developing, and subsequently do?
Pretty slippery slope.
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How is this any different than chain smokers who greatly increase their risk of life-threatening illnesses? Or alcoholics with increased liver disease and more risk of being abusive people?
Look, we can argue all day about the negative effects of the drug (there are plenty, it's a freaking drug), but the point is that you are not going to stop people from doing it. It's been illegal forever and I know more people that smoke weed than smoke cigarettes or even drink with regularity. You either have to make it crazy illegal that no one would risk it, or make it legal so you can control the quality, the age limit, and at lease attempt to reduce the ability for a youth to obtain it. As it stands, there is nothing blocking them outside of dealers with a moral compass enough to not sell to kids. That's it. How can this be considered safer than sealed products with labels and ingredients, coming from licensed suppliers with predictable effects?