Saturday morning I argued with my roommate for about an hour about the legalization of marijuana. I felt pretty bad afterward because it wasn’t really a friendly dispute.
It pretty much boiled down to these two arguments:
Marijuana should be legal because adults that use it are only affecting themselves and people should be free to exercise their agency. Once a person is an adult they should be able to choose for themselves and reap the consequences eternally of the decisions they make that don’t affect other people.
Marijuana should not be legal because it leads to crime and the church is opposed to the use of drugs. That is, we should vote according to what we believe to be right and wrong in order to make the punishment for sin more immediate and to help people choose the right.
I think that is a pretty fair summation. Anyway, I’ve decided that if I ever get into another political debate I am giving myself a time limit of fifteen minutes. Then I stop talking and go do more productive things.
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