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Winterclaw42 t1_iu203vw wrote

So...

Why should we legalize a drug that is linked to both increased ER usage and psychosis when the only reason provided is the logical fallacy of appeal to popularity? The US is a republic specifically because the majority of people could be wrong at times and representatives are supposed to serve as a check and balance in those instances?

I mean by your reasoning if a majority of the population want full on communism or to start nuclear winter we should do so. How dare those republicans stop full communism! How dare those trump republicans with all their peace talks not start nuclear winter!

/satire

Also, I thought libertarians are supposed to support freedom and being able to make decisions for yourself. Addiction is a form of slavery, so becoming addicted to drugs limits ones freedom. Also while on drugs, they can inhibit your ability to properly think and make decisions. They can deleterious to self-determination and discipline. All of these things sound like they should be against libertarian ideals. Being high does not facilitate the rational decision making that underpins the libertarian foundation.

Finally the elephant in the room: in books like 1984 and brave new world, the people in power are all to willing to use people's base desires against them in order to control them. Legal drugs could be used as a method to control the masses by a totalitarian regime. Get high and let the government do all the thinking for you.

Frankly, why should anyone take a party who has a key platform of "420" seriously?

Why should anyone view a party that's trying to corrupt a democracy by giving the people, and the democracy itself, tools of their own self-destruction with anything other than pure disdain?

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Mark4Gov OP t1_iu22gh5 wrote

I never advocate for the use or abuse of any substance or alcohol, however as an individual I do not surrender my autonomy or free agency to any government to dictate to me what I can or cannot consume.

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CouldNotCareLess318 t1_iu2ojxe wrote

>The US is a republic specifically because the majority of people could be wrong at times and representatives are supposed to serve as a check and balance in those instances

And then:

>and the democracy itself

Made me laugh so hard. Good post.

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Striking-Screen-3619 t1_iu8hi0q wrote

If heroine became legal tomorrow would you take it? Would you go to someone, buy it, consume it, and get high? It doesn’t sound like you would.

You might say that others would. But, who are these other people? Do you personally know them? Who are they? Are they patiently waiting for heroine to be legal to take it? Are they hoping that libertarians will get elected so they can legally get high on heroine? Concaine? Meth? I’d love to hear about this. The only thing I hear is a third-person effect that someone else will do this illegal activity that we have to protect with this government law, but I don’t need this protection.

Overall, I’m sure there are people who are on illegal drugs in TX at this very moment. I’m sure before they light up they don’t think, “hmm, this is illegal I better not…” yeah right.

Illegal drugs bring crime into the state, and minors run drugs for street gangs. One positive side effect of legalizing drugs is we could potentially put them out of business.

Libertarians have thought this through. We don’t just want to get high. We see people suffering on the streets. I see them downtown, it’s heartbreaking. We don’t want things to continue the way they have because vulnerable populations are being taken advantage of.

The War on Drugs started in the 70s and has cost more than $1 trillion. It has barely made a dent in its pledge to reduce illegal drug trade in the US.

It’s time to change things.

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