Reply #106: Actually I'm pretty clear what I'm talking about

[MrModerate]

Freedom is not an absolute. The people who make the laws concluded that the public order was endangered by marijuana and they made it illegal.

Most of the posters to this thread, myself included, don't think the public order was endangered and don't think pot should be illegal.

However, no one has posted anything on this "constitutional" issue other than bald statements that criminalized pot infringes their freedom.

Sorry, that won't fly.

The argument we should be making is that -- like alcohol prohibition -- laws against marijuana are obnoxious, unecessary and damaging to the social order, since they criminalize an innocent behavior. That case is easy to make.