REFERENDUM ON FREEDOM OF DRUG USE

Personally, I am appalled that the government sees fit to tell adults what they can and cannot put into their bodies. There is no doubt that drugs harm some people, as does alcohol, fatty foods, too much sugar, and many prescription medications. To me, banning the use of any drugs is as ridiculous an idea as banning overweight people from buying candy bars.

IMO as long as a person is an adult, and not directly harming another person by taking drugs, it should be up to that person as to whether he chooses to use drugs.

We don 't have national referenda in America.

The closest that we come to that is the presidential election
every 4 years.

It wud be great if we cud have a national referendum on
the right of every and any American to ingest harmful drugs
or anything he chooses to consume ( if he owns it ).

The anti-drug philosophy of current law is violative of
the libertarian vu point of the Founders.

AMERICA IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE HOME OF THE BRAVE
AND THE LAND OF THE FREE.

David

Should people have the right to abuse themselves as much as they want, even up to the point of killing themselves with their actions/choices?

OmSigDAVID wrote:

We don 't have national referenda in America.

The closest that we come to that is the presidential election
every 4 years.

It wud be great if we cud have a national referendum on
the right of every and any American to ingest harmful drugs
or anything he chooses to consume ( if he owns it ).

The anti-drug philosophy of current law is violative of
the libertarian vu point of the Founders.

AMERICA IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE HOME OF THE BRAVE
AND THE LAND OF THE FREE.

David

This eventually boils down to the question of whether people
should have the right to commit suicide.

If you want to give people the right
to use drugs however they like,
then you implicitly give them permission to commit suicide.

Should people have the right to abuse themselves
as much as they want,
even up to the point of killing themselves with their actions/choices?

rosborne979 wrote:

Should people have the right to abuse themselves as much as they want, even up to the point of killing themselves with their actions/choices?

Yes! (And there a few that'd I'd be willing to help out in their quest!)

rosborne979 wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:

We don 't have national referenda in America.

The closest that we come to that is the presidential election
every 4 years.

It wud be great if we cud have a national referendum on
the right of every and any American to ingest harmful drugs
or anything he chooses to consume ( if he owns it ).

The anti-drug philosophy of current law is violative of
the libertarian vu point of the Founders.

AMERICA IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE HOME OF THE BRAVE
AND THE LAND OF THE FREE.

David

This eventually boils down to the question of whether people
should have the right to commit suicide.

Very insightful.
It certainly DOES.

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Should people have the right to abuse themselves as much as they want, even up to the point of killing themselves with their actions/choices?

YES.

Thay SHUD.

Thay DO.

Should people have the right to abuse themselves as much as they want, even up to the point of killing themselves with their actions/choices?

Another way to phrase this is: should people have the right to give themselves brain damage and become a drag on society.

And what about all those bodies left laying around when people commit suicide, who's going to clean those up. Maybe people should have the right to commit suicide, but only if they pre-plan for their own disposal. But that would mean that the homeless wouldn't have the same right to suicide as people with money.

Apart from that (and the gun lunatics), everything is just hunky-dory in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

As you were, Roswell, i was just indulgin' my constitutional irreverence . . .

As you were, Roswell, i was just indulgin' my constitutional irreverence . . .