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No one ever looks at the section of the world that has been using Cannabis and Hashish for a couple of thousand years, while Europe refused to adopt it as an intoxicant, but did use beer and wine, and alcohol.

One culture became vibrant, and healthy, the others became like the universal pothead that we all know.

I have no idea how you are assigning blame for the decline of those, presumably Middle-Eastern, cultures on cannabis. Arab and Persian cultures were extremely advanced for their times until roughly 700 AD when Islam took over. And Islam took over by the sword, not by a bunch of stoners voting for them. At the same time, you seem to be suggesting that alcohol makes people better.

My position is that neither drug is healthy, but what is less healthy is believing that a government has the power to tell its SUBJECTS what they can and cannot grow or ingest, especially when it enforces that control with military-style 3am no-knock raids. Today's WOD is nothing but Prohibition part deux, except this time the cops are on steroids and don't give a sh*t about the people.

I am also of the opinion that much of the desire to see a crackdown on marijuana by the government, even at the expense of personal freedoms, is because many of the older crowd still associate marijuana exclusively with those nasty traitorous hippies in the 1960s, and want to see them punished. Well, pot smoking has already gone mainstream. Many people enjoy it, including many conservatives, and I personally know quite a few upstanding citizens, including ex-military, who like to blaze it up now and then.