[dware]

My profession for the past 36 years has been focused in pharmaceutical development.

Ah...now I get it.

Libertarians like yourself mistakenly believe that your assumed licence to do just about anything you want to do in no way impacts the safety and well being of others.

Please, by all means, explain to me exactly HOW my growing a PLANT in my backyard, or smoking it my living room, has ANY impact on your safety and well being?

I have no problem with classifying THC as a Schedule 2 drug as a refined and qualified active drug substance extracted and purified from well defined crops of cannabis or as synthesized and purified in a lab, which is presented in a well defined dosage form having been formally studied with clinically demonstrated end points and safety data at a defined dosage, and labeled dosage administration, safety precautions, and stated potency metrics -- approved for marketing by FDA like any other Schedule 2 drug is.

So, you want to make sure Pharma gets their cut. Got it.

[Agamemnon]

Please, by all means, explain to me exactly HOW my growing a PLANT in my backyard, or smoking it my living room, has ANY impact on your safety and well being?

When you toke, can you tell us at what point you of sound mind and are not under the influence of this mind altering drug?

Clinically, speaking, what is your washout time? What dose does you no harm? What dose does you harm? What dose causes you to lose control of yourself?

When you buy sh!t from your dealer or boutique, or grow sh!t in your own backyard how safe is what you have bought or what you have grown? Is it altered in any way? Did your Pot monkey spike it with something? Is the potency and effect the same from plant to plant or crop to crop? I'll wager you don't know sh!t about any of this.

If you don't know the dose that does you harm and causes you to lose control of yourself, that is the point where you can become a real threat to others -- first by the careless example you set for others - kids in particular -- and secondly by your selfish inattention to others and their safety that your drug addled state presents as they may be forced by consequence to have to interact with you.

Closer to home, since you last toked (assuming you're not writing in a cloud of pot smoke now), how does anyone know that you're not writing in a drug addled state of mind right now? And if you are in any way in a mind altered drug addled state of mind why should anyone who is not so foolishly compromised care what you have to say about anything?

In the end the damage is to your health, possibly the health of others, and ultimately to your credibility. Your reputation is as charred as the sh!t you are smoking.

So, you want to make sure Pharma gets their cut. Got it.

You can entrust your health to the pot head down the street, to your completely un-studied self, or you can trust your health to the best science. Which one you trust says a lot about you, and whether you have any credibility to speak on the subject at all.

FReegards!