[quote=@UltikanaRe][@Darcs] I totally agree with that point. My problem is that legalizing it allows to be marketed to children. Similar to smoking.[/quote]
Marketing and being able to sell to are two different things.

[quote=@The Nexerus]If a commodity that is illegal is made legal, it will become more widely consumed as a result.[/quote]
Yeah, I think the current predictions are something like 10% of the population of America would become permanent drug addicts if we made chasing the dragon legal, with millions more using with less devastating effects.

[quote=@mdk]If the rest of us weren't on the hook for the drug user's medical treatment, and all the extra law enforcement costs (cops, legal fees, etc) associated with the statistically inevitable consequences of that hard drug use -- then sure. As it stands, if you consider it the government's job to let me do whatever the fuck I want, then they have to enforce a modicum of common sense on the small outlier-percentage of people who are too stupid to stay out of my way. And as long as I need the feds to do that, I need them to take it seriously as hell. 

In a perfect world, you shoot up with whatever you want and it doesn't bother me in the least. I'd love to be there. Until there's a way to eliminate my liability for someone else's bad decisions, then it's in my interest to keep them from making bad decisions. And that's why my government has to regulate drugs.[/quote]
That's fine, you don't want people doing drugs because you don't want a junkie holding you up for their next dime bag. I won't sit here and pretend like the right to do drugs is some divine natural right, but I do think that people should be able to take any action, as long as it doesn't hurt other people. 

Shrooms don't make me want to go harm people, the risk that I'll become a mushroom crazed junkie is there, I'm sure, but then-- with most things there's a risk that maybe one day I just snap and decide to fuck with people. Does consuming psilcybin increase that risk? Probably. But it doesn't make the action taken against the welfare of others certain.

I would rather exist free with an increased risk for personal harm than willingly trade away some of my freedoms for a security that isn't even promised.

[quote=@The Patriarch]My stances on drugs is that if it were up to me then I would try get rid of all of them with affirmative action, my government would do it gangster squad style by smashing all of the suppliers and taking down drug cartels and their allies. Drugs fuck up and as a person living in a city I can tell you that it does screw people up[/quote]
I know. 

I'd rather drug use be legal and have money spent helping those who do them than 1 ounce of the stuff get someone 5 years.