Gay marriage, 16oz soda bath salts and marijuana?

[edin]

Many conservatives want to argue that government is to big and over steps its boundaries when making laws and regulating, such examples of this would be new yorks passing a law making it illegal to sell soda over 16oz or places in California regulating trans fats usage and what fast food restaurants can and cant sell.

At the same time I find it hypocritical that many conservatives are for regulating marriage by telling people they can or can not get married or whether or not they can adopt. This is in direct contraction with less government and less regulation. Just because one finds marriage to be more important than other issues like health or the environmental and therefore it should be regulated/legislated, is of ones personal opinion and carries the same merits as someone who think nature is more important or eating right is more important.

But the question I would like to ask to everyone is, should drugs (all drugs) be legal?

[lundie]

Reminds me of my last trip to vegas.

[pannoowau]

I agree with you assertion but I also note that the hypocrisy goes both ways. And yes, all drugs should be legal, regulated and taxed.

[ruddy]

And taxed to hell, yes.

[deangelo51]

Works for me. We need to speed this Darwinism up.

[eilis]

Honestly, didn't read it all.
But to answer you're question. Lets look at the pros and cons. For the first few couple years of all drugs being legal, everyone would do them and raise hell. There would be tons of property damage, over doses, and lots of roberys etc. But if you look at it like something with a child, they keep asking and asking but when you give it to them they discover that it was only great because they couldn't have it. Who knows if it would be the same, personally no - I don't think anything but marijuanna should be legal. Anything like meth, cocaine, bath salts shouldn't even be used or made.

[achimelech51]

I see no reason why it would be a "slippery slope." Some drugs are legal, some are not. Over the years, the list hasn't changed very much. How about taking marijuana off the "illegal" list and making it legal? Then, fifty years from now, if the world hasn't ended, we can decide what to do about the rest.

[elkanah1]

I see no reason why it would be a "slippery slope." Some drugs are legal, some are not. Over the years, the list hasn't changed very much. How about taking marijuana off the "illegal" list and making it legal? Then, fifty years from now, if the world hasn't ended, we can decide what to do about the rest.

The soda ban is a republican policy. Bloomberg is a republican.

[gowan]

I see you're VERY confused.
> Government telling you you can't buy something THAT EXISTS is not even remotely similar to government DECLINING to ORDER YOU to recognize something that does NOT exist.
> There is no more "regulation" of gay marriage than there is "regulation" of the number of corners in a circle*.
> Reserving trade in drugs for the violent criminal class and forbidding it to LEGITIMATE streams of commerce is not a good way to keep people safe. Incidents of accidental overdose or homicidal mania due to LEGAL drugs are virtually non-existent.

*Ask ANY "gay marriage advocate" to explain what rights gays lack - without using "the m-word." NO ONE has ever so much as attempted an answer for which "marriage" is a logical solution.
The whole thing is literally nothing more than objection to a WORD'S definition.

[vohkinne]

Marriage between a man and woman is a tradition. It's not even a tradition that a lot of heterosexuals like. Heck, men would love to have the freedom to nail whatever they can get, but marriage attaches a prohibitive cost to behaving in such a way. There are probably women who feel similarly. So, we have to contend with the societal expectation to marry if we want to maintain a monogamous relationship for as long as we are able. Why the societal push? Children. When we bump ugly, kids are the result. For the sake of kids, it's best not to have a variety of adults flowing in and out of the parental role.

Now when gays bump ugly, how many kids? And, isn't one of the best things about being gay is that there is never any pressure to marry, because it's not expected? Do gays want to have to pay alimony when they divorce? Go through ugly settlements? What the heck are these people thinking?

As for the drugs, I'm fine with legalizing them under the following conditions: 1) we drug test every person on the public dole, and terminate benefits if the test is positive. 2) We don't pay for the rehab (they should think about this before they get started using). 3) More liberal gun laws (I mean liberal in the classical sense), so non-deranged citizens can protect themselves from deranged citizens.

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