You have proof they'll legalize cocaine and ban cheeseburgers? Whose position sounds the most ridiculous?
Yours: We'll be able smoke crack, but eating donuts will be a no no.
Mine: Fries and crack will both end up legal and taxed by local, state, and national governments desperate for revenue.
The
slippery slope is a fallacy unless you can point out the logical step
by step progress which will occur. Simply because something is taxed,
does not mean it will ever be banned. There's a particularly large
disconnect when currently illegal substances are moving towards
legalization and suggesting somehow less harmful legal substances will
somehow be banned in the same environment.
How about these. Do you have any proof these won't happen?
If we allow the teaching of intelligent design in schools it will
inevitably lead to teaching the life of Jesus in history class.
If
we ban gay marriage, we'll eventually see amendments against premarital
sex, divorce, oral sex, and any position other than the missionary.
If
we don't pass a new version of the Brady Bill, people will eventually
be walking around with shoulder launched nuclear weapons.
If we ease up on environmental laws, the big corporations will eventually be dumping their waste directly in your backyard.
In
general people pull out the slippery slope theory because they can't
successfully defend their position on its merits,. Instead they choose
a universally undesired outcome and state that failure to adopt their
current position inevitably leads there.