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Offline Meg

Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #145 on: March 17, 2022, 11:00:59 AM »
Quote from: epiphany on March 17, 2022, 10:59:28 AM
Did I SAY everything should be legal?
Go bake a cake, Meg.

We are speaking of pot and alcohol. That's a good way to deflect and not address the subject.
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Offline epiphany

Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #146 on: March 17, 2022, 11:08:17 AM »
Quote from: Meg on March 17, 2022, 11:00:59 AM
We are speaking of pot and alcohol. That's a good way to deflect and not address the subject.
It is impossible to have an intelligent conversation with someone who doesn't read, makes assumptions, tries to read minds, is illogical, and puts words into my mouth.

Go do what you MAY be good at: go bake a cake.
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #147 on: March 17, 2022, 11:17:15 AM »
Quote from: Meg on March 17, 2022, 10:57:05 AM
Everything should be legal, in your view, with no restrictions or special taxes. That means, it would stand to reason, that you believe that most people are usually capable of making good decisions when it comes to substances that are addictive and mind-altering?

It's like with gun control, Meg.  People who are not responsible enough to make these decisions are also unlikely to care about the laws, just as it's only law-abiding citizens who care about gun control laws.  People can get pot easily whether or not it's illegal.  In fact, if you legalize it, there might be some better quality controls put on it so that people could know the potency, the strain, etc. ... and be confident that there aren't foreign substances in there, etc.
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Offline Pax Vobis

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Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #148 on: March 17, 2022, 11:58:12 AM »
True Catholics are libertarians because politics should mirror the Church, and saving one's soul is based on PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.  A nanny state cannot force anyone to save their soul or to follow laws. 

Even St Thomas Aquinas said that prostitution should be legal, but follow zoning laws, because no amount of govt regulation would ever stop it.  So you use zoning laws to regulate it to an isolated, rural part of the city which moral people can avoid.  

People who smoke MJ are gonna keep doing it, laws or not.  You might as well legalize it and make it safer.  
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Offline Mithrandylan

Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #149 on: March 17, 2022, 12:09:20 PM »
I have some inlaws who are very 'good' midwestern Lutherans. Their attitude toward alcohol is identical to LT's attitude toward cannabis. They quite truly cannot imagine alcohol use as anything other than abusive. For them, it is abusive by definition and (I am not exaggerating) they expect to be utterly smashed if they take even a sip of Budweiser. In fact, at least two of them (adults) are quite pleased to announce they have never had a drop of alcohol in their life. 

It's a cultural or personal prejudice, nothing more. Suggest that there is a lawful and moderate use of the substance and all these can do is wrong their hands about how devastating alcoholism is to the body, soul, and family (which is true enough). But you can never get past square one in the discussion. 
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