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Mr. Prager states “Legalizing marijuana is foolish because it leads to far more use of the drug and the availability of ever more potent forms.” Unfortunately, this is wrong on so many levels. We don’t have any idea whether usage will really remain higher in the future or whether the new legalized marijuana will replace the use of alcohol or the misuse of legal medications. If the latter happens that would be a good thing. As for the potency, legalization will standardize the potency and allow customers to know what they are smoking which can only also be a good thing. Apparently, Mr. Prager did not stop in a marijuana store during his world travels to Amsterdam. My friends using medical marijuana in California tell me for the first time in their lives they know what they are buying.

Excellent rebuttal to just one of Prager's idiocies - others are found in responses to Prager's screed at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2996034/posts .

Dennis Prager is one of the foremost minds whose honesty, clarity, scholarship, and thoughtfulness is beyond the pale. In no way can be Dennis be described or have his ideas and views attributed to those of an idiot.

Idiotic is as idiotic does, and however stellar his other writings, the one in question included a number of idiotic arguments.

Dennis was instrumental in my conversion from Liberal to Conservative.

And I'm sure he loves his mother, too - but none of that redeems his idiotic arguments in the essay under discussion.

You may disagree with someone, but it doesn’t make them an idiot. If you had listened to Mr. Prager for any length of time, you wouldn’t be labeling him as such.

You will notice that nowhere in the author’s disagreement did he label Dennis or his position as idiotic. Your argument was lost from the outset by usage of “idiotic” because it makes no statement as to how it is idiotic.

It’s funny, that you would probably agree with Dennis on many other issues. But it would seem that your mind is closed based on one disagreement.