re: The one MAGA issue I have is the weed issue

Do you get drunk in front of your kids, WT? Smoke weed? If not...why?

Here it is. The Good Book says (to them that "have eyes that see") that there are things which are harmless to one (Christian/pledged to be macro-societally responsible) individual, but if that responsible and willful individual chooses to PUBLICALLY indulge/justify said behavior, such a choice "casts a stumblingblock" in front of the weaker brethren. I.e., if your children, or individuals who have genetic inclinations toward addictive behavior see PUBLIC support/justification to such (potentially injurious) behavior...then down they go. And we ALL end up ponying up to deal with their dysfunction. Jails, Rehabs, SSI Disability, Bureaucratic ad infinitm.

Bottom line. The strong must either set an example for the WEAKEST LINKS (your kids, weaker brethren) in Society, or bear the costs of their dysfunction and calamity. Private indulgence is one thing...Public is altogether another.

Personally, to each their own; I could care less. There are things that I 'saw' and learned via Pot that I could have never saw otherwise. Chalked it up...moved on. But since I have CHOSEN and am personally behold to the Mercy of Jesus...then I (belief) am accountable to relative degree.

"There is a way that seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof is destruction" (Biblical...and Common Sense/Truth).

The Truth is a "two-edged sword". It both frees us, and binds us to serve Greater Love.

IMO.