RE: Drugs: A moral decision, a matter of choice, or a national health risk?
September 20, 2014 at 2:58 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2014 at 3:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Yes, but I don't think that I can really separate all of the options listed from any given drug. Drug use of any kind (like eating - anything) can be approached as a public health issue either directly or in a roundabout way. Plenty of things are a matter of "choice" - but not all choices are equal - and just about anything can be said to contain a component of a moral decision.
Speaking -strictly- to marijuana. Whether or not it;s a moral decision (in my estimation) largely concerns where you source your ganja from. Feeding criminal organizations or producers with no health and human safety standards is immoral (imo criminal organizations anyway - so maybe a bit redundant). It's a choice regarding whether or not you want to smoke it, and where you get it if you -do- smoke it.....but just calling it a choice wouldn't give free license to anyone for making -any given choice-. Finally, tied to it production, post harvest handling, and intended use or circumstances of it's use it's as much a health hazard as chocolate could be at the least - and at the worst, as much as any intoxicative inhalant -could be-.
I doubt that any single argument will give you the knockdown power you required to change anyones mind - no matter where their starting position is - and if a person did refer to any simplification of the entire spectrum of possible arguments I'd call their position very poorly thought out indeed.
I'm for legalization, btw, for "reasons"...lol- but even under my position some use, some production methods, some handling, some operational structures would be either immoral or illegal -even if they were all "choices" that we made -same as any agricultural commodity.
Speaking -strictly- to marijuana. Whether or not it;s a moral decision (in my estimation) largely concerns where you source your ganja from. Feeding criminal organizations or producers with no health and human safety standards is immoral (imo criminal organizations anyway - so maybe a bit redundant). It's a choice regarding whether or not you want to smoke it, and where you get it if you -do- smoke it.....but just calling it a choice wouldn't give free license to anyone for making -any given choice-. Finally, tied to it production, post harvest handling, and intended use or circumstances of it's use it's as much a health hazard as chocolate could be at the least - and at the worst, as much as any intoxicative inhalant -could be-.
I doubt that any single argument will give you the knockdown power you required to change anyones mind - no matter where their starting position is - and if a person did refer to any simplification of the entire spectrum of possible arguments I'd call their position very poorly thought out indeed.
I'm for legalization, btw, for "reasons"...lol- but even under my position some use, some production methods, some handling, some operational structures would be either immoral or illegal -even if they were all "choices" that we made -same as any agricultural commodity.
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