My stance has nothing to do with my perception of good or bad. I’ve made my stance quite clear.
You brought guns up in your reply due to your emotional attachment to them. I was merely replying to your questioning of motivations for MJ consumption, as an enlightened person, you certainly don’t seem to get it.
Based on this reply here, I suggest you evaluate the tea leaves you're reading and stop allowing your own bias to cloud your judgement.
I brought up guns because you claimed that drug laws are inconsistent with traditional constitutional values, an opinion that I agree with, but is actually a position full of hypocrisy if it does not equally apply to attempts to ban guns. The rights, both enumerated and unenumerated, spelled out or implied in the constitution, rights the constitution either specifically tells you you have, or imply the government must not make illegal, are all there in the constitution and thus embodied in our American constitutional tradition.
I did not mention this out of any emotional attachment to guns. I mentioned it because there are so many people cheering the demise of the imbecilic war on drugs, recognizing how deviant it is constitutionally, while at the same time now pushing for a government effort to go to war against guns. I find it comic. People can’t seem to get past viewing the world and their belief system based solely on whether or not it is their ox that gets gored. All you have to do these days to generate hostility in others is to tell the truth.
As for lacking an appreciation for why others may think they wish to take drugs, did you read the link I posted. Very interesting stuff even if I have known it, let’s say, a very long time.
I could describe enlightenment as the sudden realization that the seeker is a figment of imagination.
I have all of these dreams that on drugs my situation will change, that I will be in a better place so I dream these dreams of change. And that’s all fine and dandy until I have to make some effort to obtain them. Then it’s, why the fuck bother with that. Then it’s lily and sparrow time. “Far out, man”is right here.
Now if drugs could just magically appear in the mail, now that might be tempting especially if a match were included.