If an adult wants to smoke in their home, that’s their business. If they give themselves lung cancer, that’s their choice, assuming their sickness doesn’t tax others who didn’t choose.

Likewise, if people want to consume doof, that’s their business too.

But if someone smokes where others who don’t or can’t consent to breathing that smoke, or if someone too young to know the long-term results of their choices smokes, then I consider a role of a government to protect the life, liberty, and property of those people who don’t consent.

Also, if smokers litter cigarette butts and packaging, I see it the responsibility of government to protect the rest of us from their destruction of our lives, liberty, and property.

Likewise for doof. Unlike local produce, doof requires pollution and depletion that destroy life, liberty, and property we don’t consent to. It requires pollution and depletion for its manufacture, packaging, transportation, and disposal. It sickens people and other life.

How long will governments take to distinguish doof from food as much as they distinguish heroin from poppy and corn syrup from corn?

Doof inherently destroys life, liberty, and property of people who can’t consent. Food doesn’t inherently, though some can, if you transport it enough or monocrop too much.

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