After reading this article I wonder to myself. The title is
"Marijuana: Zogby Poll Shows Majority Support for Taxing and Regulating Marijuana on the West Coast, Support Climbing Nationwide"
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/573 … ty_support
Now the article claims that support for pot legalization is so high the majority of Americans support it. I wondered to myself given the bad side of pot even if the people want it should it not be allowed?
Think about this if one day a poll came out saying that 95% of all Americans want the government to produce and distribute injectable heroin to preschoolers should the government do it? Now heroin is bad there is no good side to it. So if the people want to be ruined by the evils of heroin to children should they be given the opportunity or should the government say "No we're not giving out heroin"?
If 51% of Americans said Yes to heroin for kids would it make it right? What if the government made a wonder drug that had no side effects what so ever and made everyone 5 times healthier by just taking it once. Then the people have 0 support for it should the government force people to ingest it or spill it into the drinking water?
In economic terms the people don't want to bailout the largest bank in the country but if the government knows that the bank would fail and cause a depression if not bailed out should the government go ahead and bailout the bank anyway?
If Hitler came back from the grave and won an election with 51% of the vote do you think members of the military and government have the right to refuse the election and not seat him as leader? What if he had won 85%? Mind you it's Hitler.
So in short do you think that the majority of people have the right to ruin their lives and country or do you think the government have the supreme right to do what is best even if the people don't want it?
"Marijuana: Zogby Poll Shows Majority Support for Taxing and Regulating Marijuana on the West Coast, Support Climbing Nationwide"
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/573 … ty_support
Now the article claims that support for pot legalization is so high the majority of Americans support it. I wondered to myself given the bad side of pot even if the people want it should it not be allowed?
Think about this if one day a poll came out saying that 95% of all Americans want the government to produce and distribute injectable heroin to preschoolers should the government do it? Now heroin is bad there is no good side to it. So if the people want to be ruined by the evils of heroin to children should they be given the opportunity or should the government say "No we're not giving out heroin"?
If 51% of Americans said Yes to heroin for kids would it make it right? What if the government made a wonder drug that had no side effects what so ever and made everyone 5 times healthier by just taking it once. Then the people have 0 support for it should the government force people to ingest it or spill it into the drinking water?
In economic terms the people don't want to bailout the largest bank in the country but if the government knows that the bank would fail and cause a depression if not bailed out should the government go ahead and bailout the bank anyway?
If Hitler came back from the grave and won an election with 51% of the vote do you think members of the military and government have the right to refuse the election and not seat him as leader? What if he had won 85%? Mind you it's Hitler.
So in short do you think that the majority of people have the right to ruin their lives and country or do you think the government have the supreme right to do what is best even if the people don't want it?
