[FeebleAttempt]

i suppose all you drunkies out there are just fine with your habit cause its legal. but it hurts more than pot ever has, i may smoke like a slob, but i dont contribute to 70% of driving fatalities.

[jennyjenny]

Let's not forget your contribution to corporations such as Frito-Lay and Nabisco.

[TBarnett34]

i suppose all you drunkies out there are just fine with your habit cause its legal. but it hurts more than pot ever has, i may smoke like a slob, but i dont contribute to 70% of driving fatalities.

The drug hotline forum is down the hall and to the left, kiddo.

[Not A Snowbird]

Capitalize your "I"s, please. That really drives me nuts.

[Hi Heels]

Some of us don't do either, choosing instead to be productive members of society and a sober example to children.

Now, there's someone I'd like you to meet....

[Father Jack]

i suppose all you drunkies out there are just fine with your habit cause its legal. but it hurts more than pot ever has, i may smoke like a slob, but i dont contribute to 70% of driving fatalities.
Oh golly... where to start.
Well, for a kick-off, THIS drunkie doesn't contribute to 70% of driving fatalities either. I've found a little loophole in that when I drink, I DON'T DRIVE. Fairly simple really.
And yes, we ARE fine with our habit because it is, as you say, legal. I tend to go along with these little things we have called "laws." These are what keep us from going to prison and becoming an even bigger tax burden on society.
But you know what? I've lived with many a pothead, and I have never, not once in my life, encountered one who became SMARTER as a result of smoking marijuana. I'm sorry, I'm sure everybody knows some guy who's, like, wow, man, a total genius, and like, this guy can't get started designing software at the crack of noon until he's had five or six bong hits. I have never met this person. Everybody I've ever met who smoked pot wanted to smoke MORE pot and then call in sick to work and watch taped episodes of Babylon 5 all day, even though they're already into me for two months' back rent.
Should pot be legal? Heck, I don't know. I'm pretty sure that the legalize-it-and-tax-the-hell-out-of-it method that's been proposed by everyone everywhere on the planet at some time or another wouldn't work, because the Feds would have to create the Department of Weed to control and authorize it, which would more than offset any tax income that might come in. Look at booze, for example. It's legal and we tax it, but how much of that tax income makes it past the overheads of the state and federal authorities?
As for Social Security, well, it sounds to this layman like a fairly simple solution: It's our money, not the government's. Give it to us to invest on our own. If we're stupid and invest it in a bunch of junk that goes bust, well, then we're in trouble.