if a person drinks excessively, everyone pretty much can tell right away...not so with weed...you can bumble about and not get noticed...you won't have a breath odor nor will you be necessarily stumbling and slurring your words....but your brain is affected.....judgment for one....
so weed is not different than mushrooms or peyote?...okay....so people will eventually treat it as no big thing?....
then what?...do they go on to bigger thrills?....are we going have to legalize cocaine and meth then?....
I predict a further destabilization of our society, I predict much more crime, as people have to buy the expensive legal stuff and they'll need moola for that, and I predict that we will see just as many deaths from drugs as we do now, but probably more.....
CRAP. They smell horrible. Clothes too. You can smell it a lot farther away than alcohol too. Glassy eyes and not focusing on anything as they "bumble about", is going to be noticed.
That's true ... and there is an objective reason for those differences. Think about it.
-— ?....are we going have to legalize cocaine and meth then?.... -—
Anyone, including kids, can go to the hardware store and buy some turpentine or spray paint, and get high “huffing it.” It’s a very cheap buzz. But few people do it.
OTOH, cigarette smoking, which is very addictive, is decreasing, even though it is legal, mainly because of a very effective PR campaign.
One of the guys behind the pot legalization movement does admit that pot is just the camels nose under the tent. They plan to also make heroin and cocaine legal.