Different in what way? You don't have to abuse drugs to enjoy them. Where do you get this notion from? Even if marijuana was as bad as you say it is (it isn't. My experience is personal, yours is blatantly obvious belief in propaganda and heresay), why should we incarcerate citizens who harm only themselves? If I want to toke one down with my buddies in my own home, why should I be imprisoned? Why does the US incarcerate people for victimless "crimes"?
On a side note our own Declaration of Independence is written on hemp paper, a plant now strictly licensed and regulated due to it's similiarity's in appearance to Marijuana. Hemp is so valuable as a plant it's retarded but our Big Brother won't let just any Joe farm this stuff because it "just looks too similiar". Sure it does have a small percentage of THC but it's so insignificant that you would have to smoke 12 joints of it in rapid succession just to get a buzz. You would faint from the smoke before you got it all down. Two of our most famous presidents farmed this stuff; Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. When you add all of this stuff up it just doesn't make sense.
George Bush Sr.'s parachute that saved his life in WW2 was made out of hemp, due to silk shortages. So in a way, our current President owes his life to hemp.
Use of any illegal drugs constitutes an abuse. DUH! Victimless? Drug users themselves are the victims. I have dealt with them long enough over the years to know.
That's right he didn't smoke. Seems like the word was cocaine was his drug of choice, but of course he wouldn't release his rehab records during the election.
Huh? How is use of a drug an abuse? You say DUH like it is obvious. Are you saying that people cannot take drugs recreationally and still be a productive, successful person? Define abuse, because I am obviously missing something here... So are you saying that we should lock up anyone who "victimizes" themselves? Does your philosophy extend to alcoholics, the obese, people who have unprotected sex, and stuntmen? Also, who are you to declare drug users "victims"? I personally know Doctors, Prosecutors, Judges, Dentists, Accountants, CEOs, School Teachers, and others who use Marijuana (and for some, other drugs) on a regular basis. In what way are these successful, happy people victims? The only "victims" of Marijuana are the ones who are arrested for smoking a plant that makes you docile, friendly, and hungry.
If he did he should have gone to jail. Obviously if he was trying any drugs he was doing far greater harm to himself than he was aware of, and the government should have locked him up to save him from himself. And look at the limits that drugs put on his life. I mean, President of the United States? Leader of the Free World? He could of done so much more...
