Many heads of state, and many founding fathers who may not have held government position, used substances that are illegal today in the USA. Shouldn’t we have the right to use mood altering substances the same as the very people who fought for our freedoms?

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  4. Yes we should but not based on the logic you presented here. I think the government shouldn’t be able to tell you what you can do to your body. Because that would be the government overstepping into my personal choices which is not it’s jurisdiction.

    You could argue all drugs should be legal and regulated in a relatively safe way the way we do alcohol for example. Many people that die from drugs because they didn’t have a professional helping them through the process, how much to use, are there complications with conflicting medicines or drugs they are currently taking, is the drug itself pure and safe or mixed with other agents, etc. If alcohol was made by random people and sold in secret I’m sure there would be a lot more damage done by alcohol or cigarettes too. And the legal regulation of those substances is what make them relatively safe. So that’s why it should be legal not because some people took drugs years ago, that’s irrelevant to our modern lives now.

  5. “it’s okay to do this because George Washington did it” is not a good principle, IMO

  6. What drugs are you talking about. Drug laws should be reformed but imo this is a ridiculous premise to base that reform off of.

  8. The government shouldn’t be involved in what adults with informed consent put in their bodies.

  9. Yes. But not necessarily because the founding fathers did it, but because its just an individuals right to treat themselves as they see fit.

  10. Uh… you do realize that some of those drugs were more harmful than what the ailment was.

  11. While I agree that many of the drug laws we have are silly this logic it faulty.

    Laws change over time.

    We can probably agree that owning slaves and dueling in the street are things that the founding father did that we shouldn’t be doing these days…

  12. No because being able to walk into CVS and buy cocaine or heroin OTC is not good for society.

  13. You do have that right. But those same founding fathers gave the government the power to tell you that you can’t exercise that right.

  15. More than a few founding fathers got into the habit of raping their slaves. I don’t think you’d want to make the same argument for those cases, would you?

    Just because the founding fathers did something isn’t justification for anything in the modern day.

  16. Only if we can also limit the drugs to only the ones available in the late 18th century.

    Checkmate, Big Pharma

  17. Whichever substances I want to use on my own body is not the business of the government or anyone else provided i am not harming others. And the Founding Fathers did not fight for our freedoms, they fought for independence from the UK. 80-90% of the population was barred from participating in government after independence.

  19. There are good reasons to loosen our drug laws.

    “Because the founders did it,” is not one of those good reasons.

  24. In the 1700’s slavery was still legal and people threw human shit out their windows.

    “But the Founding Fathers did it” is not a very good argument.

  25. If your best argument for doing something is that the founding fathers did that thing, you shouldn’t be doing that thing. I’m in favor of decriminalizing drug use but if that’s the argument, you definitely need to learn more about the men who founded this country. They were flawed men with great ideas. We as a people have taken those idea and learn from those flaws.

  26. All natural drugs are OK. The power tripping drug of “owning” another human being is not OK.

    Hey snort back a line, eat a fistful of shrooms, do what you gotta do man. Just don’t pretend you can own people and shit.

  27. Sure, and Indians should have the right to redeem your scalps with the Redcoats for cash and prizes.

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