Alright, I guess its time for me to share with you my opinion on Marijuana prohibition…

How the fuck is marijuana illegal? Seriously. Roughly 75,000 deaths a year are attributed to alcohol. The Center for Disease Control lists alcohol as the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States. So I guess that shit isn’t like drinking vitamins? What about tobacco? Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death with an attributed 443,000 deaths annually. A half million?!? That sounds pretty horrible. So two of the top three causes of preventable death in the United States are related to intoxicants that we as a society have deemed acceptable. So clearly we have no issue whatsoever with allowing a product that can be potentially lethal to its consumer to be sold. Sure we put out public service announcements about the health risks, but that is a far ways away from prohibiting a substance.

Why have we decided that an adult can only responsibly enjoy alcohol and tobacco? We certainly don’t believe that these substances are harmless to society. Were that to be true than there wouldn’t be drunk driving legislation. No need. No one would be using alcohol irresponsibly. No one would be endangered from another citizen’s choice to consume alcohol. We legislated the activities one might engage in after consuming alcohol, like driving a car, because we understood the problem to be drunk driving, and not drinking. We didn’t prohibit the consumption of alcohol. We did not take the irresponsibility of the minority as cause to restrict the majority. We understood that not all people use alcohol irresponsibly, and that the negative actions of the minority should not prohibit those people who are able to enjoy alcohol responsibly. Wouldn’t that be great if that same sort of logic could be applied to marijuana?

By no means I am arguing that either alcohol or tobacco should be made unavailable for public consumption, I would just like to examine the hypocrisy under which marijuana has been made illegal while the legality of other intoxicants has been maintained.

I have no interest in convincing you of the medical benefits of marijuana. I have no interest in convincing you that marijuana is harmless. I have no interest in trying to convince you of the economic benefits legalization would bring about. I just want you to acknowledge that there is no logical reasoning under which marijuana prohibition exists. This is America, your opinion as to how anyone lives their life, and what they can choose to consume, should be irrelevant insofar as their choice poses no immediate physical threat to you. What difference does it make if someone would rather smoke a joint after a hard day of work instead of drinking a beer? So long as they don’t get behind the wheel and threaten your safety, your feelings with regards to their personal choices, are asinine and unwelcome. You are not infallible. Your opinion is just that, an opinion. Live and let live. You are the most well equipped person to determine what is right for your own self, and no one else.

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