I get angry that the government has the ability to tell me, a legal adult what I cannot consume in my body in the privacy of my home, and then giving life altering punishments to violators of their drug laws.
I also get angry about criminal records and “background checks” that deny otherwise talented people for jobs (and housing) because of arrests and convictions that occur years and decades ago. How many 19-20 year old kids get caught with a nickel bag of powder, gets convicted and now has a felony that follows them around the rest of their lives. How is this right? Who does this protect? Answer, no one.
While not a felony, I have misdemeanor conviction for theft of property under $500 for stealing a steak from a supermarket, over 23 years ago. 1996. I live abroad now but am thinking about coming back to America to find a job. This is just not right that I have to worry and be “punished” for stealing a $19 steak almost a quarter century ago. And they wonder why criminals are recidivists. I mean, duh.
So what we have now is a bunch of people with low level drug convictions and people like me with misdemeanors who have eschewed and disavowed their past and want to be tax paying working people.