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. 

...and cheaper and more readily available to all.

What's the purpose of alcohol?  Drukenness.
What's the purpose of ice cream?  Gluttony.
What's the purpose of a living room couch?  Slothfulness.
What's the purpose of a vacation?  Laziness.

This is the kind of logic which is applied to MJ and it leads to the heresies of Jansenism and Manichaeism, which is the error that natural things all lead to sin and temporal things are inherently wrong.

Apples-oranges.  Abortion, ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity, etc are inherently evil and cannot be accepted under any circuмstances.  MJ is not inherently evil and thus has different rules.

So we should have some restrictions? Why, when humans are just going to get around the restrictions? That has been your argument.

A catholic country HAS to restrict those things which are inherently/all-the-time evil.  Such as blasphemy, murder, sins against nature, etc.


MJ is not part of this category and is similar to alcohol in that it should have very little restrictions.  BECAUSE IT'S NOT INHERENTLY EVIL.

What is the purpose of smoking MJ for recreation? To get stoned. Trads are fine with that. No problem. Enough said.

What is the purpose of alcohol for recreation?  To get drunk?

What is the purpose of food for recreation?  To get fat?

Of shooting for recreation?  To kill someone?

You have been brainwashed that MJ is bad, as have many people.  Go research and open your horizons.

So a Catholic country decides what the rules are? What country would that be?

EVERY country should be Catholic.
GO BAKE A CAKE, MEG.

So a Catholic country decides what the rules are? What country would that be? 

       

What's the purpose of alcohol?  Drukenness.
What's the purpose of ice cream?  Gluttony.
What's the purpose of a living room couch?  Slothfulness.
What's the purpose of a vacation?  Laziness.

This is the kind of logic which is applied to MJ and it leads to the heresies of Jansenism and Manichaeism, which is the error that natural things all lead to sin and temporal things are inherently wrong.

Then teach that to your daughters your "logic" and even smoke some weed recreational with them "in moderation" like "your logic" says or else shut up and stop being a hypocrite. Some people only learn by their mistakes. Your daughters will be cannon fodder if you teach them your "logic" that they can smoke MJ if it is in moderation.  I could not have warned you more.  

For the others, Pax Vobis has no common sense, ignore anything he says about MJ for recreational use if you have daughters or you will damage them for life. They will be passed from one man to the other the rest of their lives. Just go to a 55 & over community and see where all the pot smoking women ended up, married 2-4 times and now single and "dating". (same thing goes for the boys, but they won't just won't get pregnant)