Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by cmdrfred on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:17PM
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Why are you talking about alcohol rather than marijuana in any case?
Your assertion was that legalizing cannabis would cause social harm. If your goal is preventing harm then you must also criminalise the currently legal recreational drugs to be logically consistent.
Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by Chris2048 on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:30PM
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> then you must also criminalise
No you don't, did you read what I wrote!
Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by cmdrfred on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:46PM
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Drug that does objectively more damage = legal
Drug that does objectively less damage = illegal, it is too damaging
You have a right to an opinion, but logic is not open to interpretation.
Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by Chris2048 on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:52PM
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> logic is not open to interpretation.
It is; you are just making up rules and calling them "logic". These are just your arguments, and they are flawed and inconclusive.
Again, read my comments, I'm not interested in your comparisons if you don't even answer to the problems with your own arguments.
> If you heatmap crime...
Again, look at all the problems I had with your original arguments. Alcohol is legal, and hence there is far more opportunity to abuse it. Small, regular amounts of alcohol is likely not be be harmful at all - all problems arise from excess, hence there is an argument for restriction, not criminalization.
Why are you talking about alcohol rather than marijuana in any case? Your comparison is a straw-man - whatever can be concluded about alcohol doesn't necessarily apply to marijuana.