Well we made possession of heroin, meth and cocaine

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29. A little marijuana or hashish probably isn't going to harm anyone...

We've all been through the Reefer Madness propaganda and the talk that smoking pot inevitably leads to the harder stuff, and we realize all of that is hogwash now.

There are some drugs that are simply too dangerous. They can produce violent and unpredictable behavior in people. They often kill over time - just look at Billy Mays and his slow but unnoticed downward spiral from cocaine use. If you're going to have a national healthcare framework like Obamacare in place, this hurts the taxpayer in the long run.

Unchecked drug use is a public safety issue as well as a public health issue. There's an argument to treat firearms as falling under both auspices, so why not apply the same logic to meth or cocaine?