Ahh... I think we need to get marijuana legalized.

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People losing their rights to own a gun of their choice is a outrage, but legal weed is a straight slap in the face to all leo cross this nation and to those who have lost theirs life's due to the drug trade and it's poision.

And I will get flamed for this but I will spit in the face of anyone who stands in front of me and says we need to legalise any drug, my aunt and uncle are with the good Lord because of a drug head trying to score.

Brother I'm sorry for your loss, but the last part would be a big mistake. Some of us would respond accordingly.

I don't like drugs, people on drugs annoy the absolute hell out of me. However, the fact is prohibition doesn't work. Not to mention my fundamental problem with the government punishing somebody for only harming themselves and no one else. This is a slap in the face to the principles of the Declaration of Independence. I don't need the government keeping me safe from myself.

Let's look at the war on drugs for just a minute. It's very fitting to call it a war. Like war when you can not articulate what victory is, when that victory is not the mission, when you as a nation are not fully committed to achieving that mission (read total war as in WWII) the likely outcome is most certainly a never ending conflict or defeat.

If we as a Nation were to fully commit to ridding this country of drugs* then I'd support it because maybe we could win the war on drugs. As it sits we will not win the war, we are only making it worse. By making these things illegal and not committing to this we are creating a space where a black market and crime can and will thrive, a space where innocent people will often find themselves victims. This half ass effort to fight drugs has done more damage to innocent people and our rights (see asset forfeiture) than drugs themselves ever have. We have given up due process almost entirely.

*I don't consider marijuana a drug in this category. I don't use it nor plan to, but the fact is the effects are less severe than a lot of drugs prescribed by the Drs. I'm no safer being on the road with a pot head as I am a drunk or someone on a lot of prescription drugs. Besides all that, I know other veterans who have use marijuana to deal with insomnia. I've dealt with insomnia myself at times. I refuse to use (prescription) drugs and will not allow myself to become reliant on alcohol or anything. Marijuana does seem to be the lesser of the evils here, does it not? I, myself, suck it up and deal with it. Maybe if I worked in a different field I might consider it at times. So why shouldn't this be my option. Exercising my Liberty, on my own personal property, harming absolutely no one, what grounds does the government have to deny me that right???