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Message: <blockquote data-quote="crashboombang" data-source="post: 93813" data-attributes="member: 2256">The war on Drugs and the war on terror are going to be the biggest threat to individual liberties. The heavy handedness that I referred to is the laws and penalties that the Federal Govt. can impose. When the Federal Govt can use its weight to impose Federal Mandatory Sentences of 5 years in a Federal Prison on two landowners for a grass fire,or use it's weight to press a young college student, that was caught selling a small amount of MJ, to cooperate in a drug investigation that leads to his death there is something drastically wrong.The war on drugs should be health based. The schedule of drugs should be based on the likelihood of overdose. Heroin overdoses I believe are at 78 deaths each day, that will never be acceptable for legalization for recreational use. These people are addicts/or in chronic pain and the threat of death doesn't overcome the desire for a fix.Alcohol leads to an average of 6 overdose deaths per day (evidently thats acceptable) and is a legal product.The CDC did not record the two deaths in Colorado as an overdose, cannabis was ruled as a contributing factor but not the actual cause of death, (I do believe that the edible market needs more regulation to address this). So far there are 0 overdose deaths directly related to cannabis, however I am not so naive as to believe there are no downsides to cannabis. It should only be available to adults over 21 and regulated like alcohol with the same penalties that would come with its misuse i.e driving, etc.</blockquote>

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