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Originally Posted by policy chick  So I had a debate tournament and was entered in congress this weekend. The reason I'm mentioning this is because we had a piece of legislation to debate about the legalization of certain drugs, one of them being marijuana. There were many interesting points made, but I had one question I never had the chance to ask. Why is marijuana for recreational purposes a good thing? | For exactly the same reason alcohol is legal.
It is about a person's right to choose what they want to do with themselves.
If you can choose, to use a man made intoxicant, that has been proven to do major damage to your organs, causes some people to get violent, and is responisble for thousands of deaths each year, than the choice to use a naturally occuring plant, that is linked to very few deaths, does littile damage to your body, and doesn't cause people to get violent, should be a given.
There really are no worthy arguements to this logic.
It should be legal to do what ever you want to your body. It's legal to choose to pierce or tattoo any body part you wish but you can't smoke a joint because you find it relaxing?
It's about the individual's right to choice if marijuana is a good thing for thier own recreational pleasure. Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ~Alexis de Tocqueville |