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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (66159)	11/7/2002 1:03:04 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

It is a philosophical approach to defining the problem and how to do with it. So, would you advocate a return to prohibition? I don't see how one can philsosophically oppose marijuana use and not philosophically oppose alcohol use, which I think demonstrably has much, much more serious social consequences. I still think that it's in the end line drawing. Many, many behaviors are potentially damaging to oneself and to others. We make some legal, we make some illegal. So from a legal perspective, it IS about drawing the line, and deciding which behaviors go on the legal side and which on the illegal side. I don't see any other way for a legislature, which has the task of passing laws which determine what's legal and whats not, to view it.