[Gorzaloon]

I'm sure this won't be popular on Freerepublic, but in my opinion, they should simply legalize marijuana. It's a waste of resources to enforce laws against a narcotic that is not a whole lot more dangerous than alchohol, if at all.

I can be neutral because I am an oddity in my circles in that I do not bother with the stuff. Of all the people I know whose lives were ruined by substances, alcohol tops the list, followed by a smaller number of cocaine problems.

To include pot with those substances is a legal fiction, and apparantly the Public has "nullified" that law without judicial sanction. If joints were distributed after the Rodney King verdict, there would have been no riots. People may have intended to riot, or even planned to. But not right then, maybe sometime later, or tomorrow or sometime...what was I saying?

[sweetliberty]

"Of all the people I know whose lives were ruined by substances, alcohol tops the list"

Bingo! And I have never seen a person's life ruined by regular pot smoking if there were not hard drugs involved as well. Perhaps they're a little less motivated than the norm, but functional and relatively normal nonetheless.