If adults decide to smoke something that grows out of the ground (like tobacco) why shouldn’t they? It’s not processed like alcohol or other hard drugs, a bud is clipped off a plant, dried and lit up - what’s your problem? God grew it, I smoke it, and that settles it. William F. Buckley was a toker and it didn’t seem to affect his intellect.
I'm not completely comfortable with that argument due to plants like opium (poppies), coca, really intoxicating mushrooms, etc. With the first two, the temptation to process/refine is great due to tolerance effects. That's not so much the case with cannabis, fortunately.
William F Buckley was not a dope smoker.
I know what you are referring to and your representation of it as Buckley as a pot head is typical of the delusional thinking that dope smoking induces.
“William F. Buckley was a toker and it didn’t seem to affect his intellect.”
I could not find anything where it stated W.F. Buckley smoked pot...not to say he didn’t. But I did find this quote:
“Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night.
Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people,
does not suppress medical research,
does not peek in bedroom windows.
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value,
marijuana prohibition has done far more harm
to far more people than marijuana ever could.”
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.F..Buckley.Quote.B1DA