There's nothing to add...they are as irrelevent as France. Perhaps you haven't notice, but you folks have been posting the same old tired crap every day for years now and absolutely nothing has changed...except in Canada.
As for gaining respect from you...LOL! No wonder you're an ex...you aren't worthy of anything more.
Then stay off it ... TROLL
I'm an ex because I did my time ... SONNY.
BTW you present yourself as a person who gets his thrills irritating people. It probably reflects in your personal life. My guess you are either divorced or soon to be. If you have kids, they probably don't want anything to do with you because you apparently get your kicks getting people mad at you so that you can punish yourself with their anger and contempt ... Which you do well at.
Therapy is free on base ... you might seek some before you have spent most of your life miserably punishing yourself and being angry at the world
You are the irrelevent tourist, eh? Always up for a visit! Bon voyage!
Perhaps you haven't noticed but the number of anti-drug war articles have gotten more numerous and more critical of the effects thereof. A decade ago, you wouldn't have seen anyone who would have gone into print criticising the war against cannabis. Now you see even such conservatives as William Buckely Jr. coming out against the moronic war.
Absolutely, much has changed. And it's gaining momentum. 
That depends on your perspective on "change". Since 1973, 12 state legislatures -- Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Oregon -- have enacted versions of marijuana decriminalization. In each of these states, marijuana users no longer face jail time (nor in most cases, arrest or criminal records) for the possession or use of small amounts of marijuana.
My beef with the WOD related to marijuana is primarily that the feds should butt out of a states rights issue (10th amendment.) I am strongly constitutionalist - thus I support getting rid of leftist activist judges, for example. I see this as a constitutional issue, not that different than the 2nd amendment.
My secondary beef with the WOD related to pot is the cost. It is pretty damn expensive to put the officers on the street, hold trials (clogging the judicial system), putting people in prison (clogging the damn prisons), and losing the taxes and economic services of those imprisoned from the economy. Bottom line is that it it costs a bunch (about $7.5 Billion per year) to handle all of this. I would prefer the resources to be allocated elsewhere - like tighting up the southern border big time.
And no, I don't smoke. Smoking is bad for you and rots the lungs. That said, I don't care if someone else wants to rot their own lungs. And if they die at 65 from lung cancer instead of draining medical services for years and then dying at 90, well then I guess it save us tax money there also (cuts down on medicare/medicaid and social security.)