He considers drug prohibition to be an injustice to Americans’ natural rights. As Huemer says, “If we are to call ours a free society, we cannot deploy force to deprive people of their liberty and property for whimsical reasons (Huemer 264).” People have fundamental rights to life, liberty and property. These unalienable rights include the right to one’s own body. Simply put, drug use is an individual’s right. If an person is legally allowed to eat McDonalds for every meal, then it should be legal to eat a pot brownie. As long as individuals are not harming others, they have a basic right to do as they please to their own bodies. Why should the government be allowed to tell someone how they must treat their body? In The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey, Huemer again argues that drug laws are unjust because “they violate a substantive moral right, the right to control one’s own body, that individuals possess regardless of the decisions of the state” (Huemer 127). Huemer claims that individuals have a natural moral right to use their body as they please, as long as they do not breach the rights of others in doing
He considers drug prohibition to be an injustice to Americans’ natural rights. As Huemer says, “If we are to call ours a free society, we cannot deploy force to deprive people of their liberty and property for whimsical reasons (Huemer 264).” People have fundamental rights to life, liberty and property. These unalienable rights include the right to one’s own body. Simply put, drug use is an individual’s right. If an person is legally allowed to eat McDonalds for every meal, then it should be legal to eat a pot brownie. As long as individuals are not harming others, they have a basic right to do as they please to their own bodies. Why should the government be allowed to tell someone how they must treat their body? In The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey, Huemer again argues that drug laws are unjust because “they violate a substantive moral right, the right to control one’s own body, that individuals possess regardless of the decisions of the state” (Huemer 127). Huemer claims that individuals have a natural moral right to use their body as they please, as long as they do not breach the rights of others in doing