In response to the March 3 letter, “Legalize, regulate pot nationwide”:
A lot of people are talking about how marijuana should be legalized and how the legalization of this drug would solve many of the country’s problems. This view is altogether erroneous. The legalization of marijuana would just give way to a whole new set of problems and controversies.
Think sensibly for a moment. Supporters of legalization are stating, by their belief, that it is better to have thousands of people under the influence of a harmful drug than it is to lose money. Where is the value placed in this view? People who believe that the legalization of marijuana would be beneficial because of cost concerns for arresting and detaining offenders are basically saying that money is more valuable than human life.
The letter stated, “In the Declaration of Independence we are guaranteed the democratic ideal of liberty.” This belief is a fallacy. Our forefathers did not fight for independence from an oppressive monarchy so that their future generations could use and abuse drugs. The whole notion of liberty is not a freedom to do whatever one pleases to do, that is the belief of Satanism; the meaning behind liberty is to have the right to do what is good and beneficial for your fellow man.
If liberty meant being able to do whatever one wanted to do without judgment being passed, then what is the purpose of the judicial branch of the government? Would it not be infringing upon the supposed, inherited “liberty” of a murderer to indict him for his crimes?
Think before you whimsically present topics such as liberty and illicit drugs and try to use them to support one another.
Joshua Kacker
Arlington
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