[Restorer]

anyone who grew up in the '60s or '70s smoked it.

Ahem. Not everybody did. HS graduate 1974.

[secretagent]

Decriminalizing it won't solve the "problem" of too many people using it as an escape from unjoined battles.

But neither has the current WOD, which belongs in the unjoined battle category itself.

Decriminalize drugs, and start a War on the Insidious Nanny State.

[apackof2]

anyone who grew up in the '60s or '70s smoked it.

No, not everyone but then when you play in the mud you assume everyone is dirty also

[Renegade]

Hell, We can't even purchase Molson Triple XXX beer down here !!!!! Good brew 1

[breakem]

I actualy think we need more laws. There are commandments which have not been codified in our Judeo-Christian nation. We need a law to prohibit high sugar, high fat foods. Look at all the harm bad diet is doing, and the costs! Time to outlaw smoking. Too costly on health care and we're almost there anyway. Porn should be outlawed. Majority doesn't like it anyway.

Increase the spending on the WOD, life sentences, and more cops til we get eceryone sober.

We can make this a better brave, new world. With video cameras and by deputizing everyone, we can get everyone to do right.

[Robear]

Considering the fact that hundreds of thousands die each year from smoking cigarettes, and hundreds of thousands die and are killed from drinking and driving, pot looks pretty innocuous to me. No, I don't smoke pot, but personally, I'd rather have someone stopped waiting for the stop sign to turn green, than to have Mr. Invincible plow through that same stop sign at 90 mph and kill a car full of people. Pot is not dangerous. Tobacco and alcohol are.

[LadyDoc]

He said it as if he meant most people in his age group will have smoked the stuff at one time or another. And, of course, it's true: I've smoked it; you've smoked it; cabinet ministers smoked it; anyone who grew up in the '60s or '70s smoked it

I never smoked it. And in college, a lot of kids smoked it because they made fun of you if you didn't do it.

And so what? Marijuana hasn't changed...

Untrue. The marijuana of the 1990's is much much stronger than that used in the 1970s. That's why we see so many teen addicts who actually go thru withdrawal during rehab.

Some parents are even finding themselves in the awkward position of having to conceal marijuana use from their children, rather than let them see their role models breaking the law.

Of course, they could actually take seriously the fact that they are parents, and not get high, but obviously that would be too hard. just like these parents are often on their second or third marriages, breaking up when the marriage becomes too hard, or forcing their teen aged daughters who follow in their parents self indulgent footsteps to abort, since raising a grandkid would be too hard...

[Snuffington]

I'd do more than decriminalize the stuff. I'd make it legal to own and to grow. I'd tax the heck out of it and put it on the shelf at the LCBO next to the vodka.

Bizarre little statement. No less so for being a fairly common sentiment.

If marijuana is harmless, why tax it differently than bread? If harmful why legalize it?

I think the obvious answer is that marijuana may not be terribly harmful (at least that's the legalizers' position), but it certainly is addictive. Legalizing it will produce great tax revenue because, to the addicts at least, it is a necessity. Regardless of the tax burden they must continue to buy.

Seems to me more of an indictment of the morality of "sin" taxes (those on alcohol, tobacco, and gambling), rather than an endorsement of anything regarding marijuana.