[DiogenesLamp]

I've just never seen it.

Usually sh!t is born sh!t.

Well perhaps you've led a sheltered life. How wonderful for you. Not all of us start out with silver spoons in our mouths.

Last I checked you don't get a vote in what I "have" to do and I'm sure not going to award you one.

Oh you are welcome to be as moon bat inconsistent as you like, but if you are going to embrace an inconsistent philosophical idea (My drugs are okay, but other people's drugs are not) then you might as well let us know up front so we won't waste any time paying attention to your opinion.

Actually this is the direction I have been leaning towards you from the start. You simply don't strike me as a high tension thinker, and you haven't disabused me of that impression yet.

[Jagdgewehr]

I applaud your efforts to debate this topic. For me, this is more of a visceral thing than reasoned one in my opposition. I vehemently despise doper freaks of any kind. I have absolutley no respect for them as humans as I consider them very utterly weak and corrupt souls. I don't care what other beliefs they have in line with mine. If they all dropped dead tomorrow all the better. Thins out the herd of useless trash as far as I'm concerned.

I swear, sometimes I think Free Republic could rival DU when it comes to the number of reefer fiends. I make no apologies for my feelings on this subject.

[Mariner]

It's apparent you want to argue the relative merits of Libertarianism, or their position on drugs.

That's OK.

But my position, IMHO is more nuanced.

Marijuana has achieved the status in our culture once reserved only for alcohol. And it deserves the same legal recognition as a result.

It's "embedded". And the expenditure of a single dime to eliminate it is foolhardy.

According to Gallup, 38% of Americans have smoked it and 52% favor it's full legalization.

Despite the protestations of the scared and the do-gooders. The scared will adjust, the do-gooders will move on to something else. And the state will stop disrupting the lives of it's citizenry because they choose to self-medicate.

Then there's the hard-core WOD folks. I won't pretend to understand their motives. I'm sure some are well-meaning and some just want to control others.

But they'll be pushed aside and society will proceed without them.