You have a very naive view of its affects. I freely admit that I smoke dope but I only smoke it when I ski and I'm actually well known for the type of skiing that I do. It doesn't affect me adversely and I don't consider myself sick or in need of punishment. My actions don't harm anyone else. I am successful in life and as an adult I should be allowed to make my own choices. In fact I know a lot of people that feel the same way, and a surprising number of them voted for Bush.
"I am successful in life and as an adult I should be allowed to make my own choices."
To borrow from Ace Ventura, "Congratulations on all your success, you smell terrific!" (Ooooh ooohh that smell, can you smell that--cough, cough--smellll...)
You're right, you made your own choice when you hooked up with your dealer and scored your weed. And you scored it, no prob, right?
Then whatsup with you tokaz hassling us straights about decriminalization? You aren't entitled to societal approval, and aren't likely to get it. The fact that you have to do your business in the shadows works out for the best--it certainly does not prevent use and abuse of marijuana (case in point, you), but it does place a barrier of forbidenness that MOST people will not cross, thus limiting the level of use and abuse.
Most people actually do respect the concept of law and its limits, even though it seems successful persons such as you are able to break it successfully. Limiting use to the minority is all reasonable people ever did expect from the much ballyhooed, much maligned War On Drugs.