i would love to introduce you to the multitude of people/families i have seen devastated by your little natural green friend. you and your pot-smoking friends are god-fearing nice people. great. good for you.
i just wish you could see how many people were hurt and the level of crime committed during the process of growing the drug thru putting it in your pipe.
now go ahead and tell me: legalize it!!! you certainly love the exclamation points. knock yourself out.
As far as your devistated multitudes, how do you KNOW they wouldn't have wound up on Ricky Lake anyway?
Coulda woulda shoulda.
My beeg point was that LE has CREATED the problem. Prohibition makes a black market. Black markets are not good.
That plant has been here at least a couple of days before man, with no problems. If it was accepted for what it is, a seed bearing herb, it wouldn't be a problem. Remove the artificial criminality, and the criminality of it disappears.
The “people hurt and level of crime committed during the process” of supplying part is actually an anti-prohibition argument. What happened to all the Al Capone types after prohibition was repealed? How many people are hurt supplying alcohol now?
For the record I do not smoke pot nor do any other controlled substance. But once out of the Navy and back in NYC, I was shocked at how many people do drugs of all sorts. Not scum bags, but FDNY firemen, Coast Guard personnel, utility workers, etc. People that are responsible, get to work on time, do their jobs competently. No one would ever suspect. (I suppose I am privy to their habits because I have to admit that I must look like a drug user... shaved head, tattoos up and down my arms, ride a Harley all year round, and stay out at bars till 4am.)
It certainly changed my idea of a typical druggie. That along with witnessing the incompetence and dishonesty of some NYPD officers & judges that make snap judgements from their myopic views has me more worried about the law enforcers than the law breakers.