Issue 3 (For Ohio Residents)

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(11-04-2015, 04:38 PM)PDub80 Wrote: What you are saying makes sense on a lot of levels. Until people with WhodeyWho's logic come through and say... "But a small amount of cocaine or heroine has no effect. So I get to have that because it's my choice and I'm not hurting anyone else. You ARBITRARILY set the line at cocaine and heroine, but that is not right."

The problem with moving the line now is that it just opens up other people to want to move it because they have a different vice.

The "line" isn't defined though. There is no rhyme or reason for what makes one worse than the other. That is what I think many here are struggling with. A line would mean we have a criteria we are not willing to cross, but it seems like there is no criteria just randomly chosen drugs. As I have tried pointing out Marijuana, alcohol, and Caffeine all have negative side effects but no one said what is the one thing we won't put up with that makes two of those three legal and the third not.

I think the line could be on major chemical dependence. Prescription drugs with a high probability of dependence are not sold over counter, but those that don't are. Drugs with little to no level of chemical dependence should be legal,those with should not. This at least puts personal responsibility on a choice to start and a choice to stop, rather than a choice to start and fighting a heavy chemical dependence to stop.