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> Frankly, I have never understood the desire to make a plant illegal. If you're a religious person this is something God made. Who are we to question God's creation?

This is kind of a silly argument, though. Malaria, anthrax, and the black death are also natural, and you won't find many theists arguing that we should welcome those.

(I am absolutely in favor of legalization, I just don't like silly arguments.)

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This is true but they're not really banned, nor are they plants :)

So it's only plants that God made that are automatically safe?

Woah. You're right! Let's ban getting sick!

I think you'll find yourself in a lot of trouble if you try to collect and sell anthrax spores.

I agree its a silly argument but so is the theist's argument that says God (or whoever) provides for humanity through creation and then goes on to blame the harmful parts of nature on corruption of creation by Satan or the devil. I was raised in that kind of environment and have heard these arguments. Their 'logic' is almost always silly. Sometimes you got fight silly with silly.

It's not a silly argument, we didn't make malaria, anthrax or the black death Schedule I.

We do our best to wipe them off the face of the earth. That's a lot more dramatic than Schedule I. I've never heard even the most ardent anti-drug ranters say that we need to make the marijuana plant extinct.

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