[StJacques]

The biggest problem we have with considering the question of what to do about marijuana is that the lobbying and policy groups promoting its decriminalization or legalization are some of the freakiest circus-act-refugees-masquerading-as-policy-wonks on the planet. There does need to be a serious discussion about it but how far can we really go when we're also told by the advocates for marijuana law reform that we can't wear leather, that ginseng should be served in school cafeterias, that cosmic rays from meteor showers are altering the human genome, and more?

I paid my way through college working in the restaurant business and that experience convinced me that hard liquor is an extremely dangerous substance, much more so than marijuana. I know someone will probably ping me with a link that says otherwise, but I've seen the ill effects of hard drinking up close and I don't chew twigs and berries.

[rhombus]

The biggest problem we have with considering the question of what to do about marijuana is that the lobbying and policy groups promoting its decriminalization or legalization are some of the freakiest circus-act-refugees-masquerading-as-policy-wonks on the planet.

Boy have you got that right and of course better role models have so much to lose. I've totally given up hope. If a slime like Mr. "I never inhaled" didn't do one damn thing, nobody will.

[fr_freak]

The biggest problem we have with considering the question of what to do about marijuana is that the lobbying and policy groups promoting its decriminalization or legalization are some of the freakiest circus-act-refugees-masquerading-as-policy-wonks on the planet.

There are essentially two kinds of people who are against the WoD: 1) circus freaks who just want to get stoned, 2) people who are horrified by federal government's overstepping of its Constitutional authority or the heavy-handedness with the government (federal and state) enforce laws which essentially outlaw a common weed, tromping on civil liberties in the process.

The advocates for the WoD, perhaps purposefully, tend to lump every opponent into the first category so that they can dismiss them outright, without having to consider Constitutional arguments.