Trust me, you're preaching to the choir here. I despise the War on Drugs and how a naturally growing plant can somehow be deemed illegal.
For the record, I am opposed to the war on drugs and support decriminalization (at the very least) for most drugs. But I ask this to understand your logic:
Do you think anthrax (the poison, not the shitty metal band) should be legal? Should cultivation and stockpiling of anthrax toxin be legal?
Anthrax toxin isn't a drug or a plant - but it is a naturally occuring by-product of a natural bacteria.
As far as I'm aware, Anthrax is only used as a chemical weapon. So, not really sure how Anthrax would find itself in the conversation on the War on (recreational) Drugs.
I ask because the argument people make for cannabis is that it's somehow okay because it is "natural". I don't have issues with it - but I think the "natural" argument is flawed. That's all.
Anthrax occurs in nature. So if you don't understand how a naturally growing plant could be declared illegal, then would that argument be extended to naturally-growing bacteria, etc. That was my point. More of a logical conundrum than anything else. Just curious.
You got me. No I'm not down with anthrax. The fact that marijuana grows in the ground isn't my only reason for thinking that people's lives and whole communities shouldn't be destroyed because someone chooses to partake in a little smoke inside their own home. My emotions let me get a little off track and I should have stuck to my original point. I'll try and be less sloppy. I guess logically expressing my thoughts isn't one of my strong points.
This is getting off topic but since you asked - my thinking is that if I'm not hurting anyone, then what I put in my body is my business. Obviously if I drive a car and hurt someone, then that's different. That's where I was going with that but I should have stuck with the main topic.
I just found it funny that we're all sitting here in the US (well I am anyway) pointing the finger at other countries for being so harsh, when we've got entire communities full of Americans getting arrested and having their futures ruined because they're smoking pot or for other minor offenses. So my minor quibble with the list is that I'd at least put the US in the top 10, and knock out Japan or Sweden. Sweden doesn't even execute people, while we here in the US have executed numerous people who were later proven to have been railroaded. They're usually poor. Or black. Or poor and black.
Our legal system is great if you're a banker. Not so much of you're poor or black. I'm getting off track again so I'll stop.
