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Love it :)For the record my Sister became Paranoid Schizophrenic because of Pot.She was 32.We took care of her until she died at 59

I think what many people are failing to understand is that different people have different reactions to the influence of various drugs. Some can maintain functionality, even excel, while others fall apart.

Those that can operate under the influence presume everyone else can as well, and so they come to places like here and go "Rah Rah Rah!" In favor of letting everyone get exposed to substances that don't cause *THEM* any troubles.

The idea that some people wreck their lives with this stuff just doesn't enter their minds.

I think what many people are failing to understand is that different people have different reactions

That broad generalization appears to be the justification for regulating human nature and all sorts of human behaviors, such as is done with gun control or alcohol prohibition. I'm sure you can come up with many others, good, bad and ugly.

I prefer the form of freedom that is based upon individual responsibility, with individuals accepting the consequences for their own actions, over the police state that regulates freedom and mandates "state accepted" human behaviors and can then violate the Bill of Rights whenever it feels so justified.

Fwiw,

Early history (pre-1850s)
The Virginia Company, by decree of King James I in 1619, ordered every colonist to grow 100 plants specifically for export. Thus, England's only colony in America began to grow hemp in order to meet this obligation and, soon, to serve a growing demand in other colonies.
George Washington grew hemp at Mount Vernon as one of his three primary crops.
The use of hemp for rope and fabric was ubiquitous throughout the 18th and 19th centuries in the United States.
Medicinal preparations of cannabis became available in American pharmacies in the 1850s following an introduction to its use in Western medicine by William O'Shaughnessy a decade earlier in 1839.

I think it's interesting how we in the land of the free have gone from one pole of acceptance to the other poles of criminalization and regulation about plants like marijuana and tobacco.

Too bad we've failed at regulating our need to regulate, control and criminalize based upon the whims and loud voices of a few.