[uncommonsense]

My point was that you don’t know what you’re getting with pot. It could be just stinky, or it could knock you on your ars with 1 hit. Impairment is dangerous if you’re doing anything in public. I personally don’t want my family and me subjected to dangerously impaired people - we already have enough on the streets.

[rightwingextremist1776]

I understand your point, and agree with you somewhat. However to try and draw a difference between alcohol and pot in terms of which is less incapacitating is futile at best. There is no difference between tying one on with alcohol and getting stoned by smoking a joint...both result in an altered consciences. The only difference is the ability to “enjoy” a drink without being totally drunk, but depending on the strength of the drink you can still feel the effect of alcohol. The real question is do we still want to continue to condone one elixir while punishing the one’s who indulge in the other? Seems to me a lot of wasted time, energy, money, and lives for a hypocritical argument… I highly doubt you would see a marked increase of people wondering around in altered states just because they eliminated the criminal penalties. The people that are going to smoke pot are already doing it…..

[fanfan]

My point was that you don’t know what you’re getting with pot. It could be just stinky, or it could knock you on your ars with 1 hit.

That doesn't make sense. Supply and demand laws ensure that the 'better' product sells for more.