[livius]

So why would you want to get that way as recreation?

Good article. What I don’t understand is why the powers that be have used every effort to condemn and criminalize tobacco smoking, supposedly because of its health effects, and yet are enthusiastically pushing pot smoking.

I also don’t understand why entire agencies and police units spend their time trying to catch vendors selling alcohol to people under 21...while a couple of weeks ago, Colorado permitted pot smokers of any and all ages to lie around all over a main square and puff away.

The government must benefit in a big way from people smoking dope. Could it be the word “dope”...hmmm, makes you easier to control, less demanding, less energetic, dumber...

[cloudmountain]

My read is that the legislators have convinced each other that the mantra of the 60's, drugs, sex and rock n' roll, are all good things all the time.

I remember the rhetoric condemning alcohol and extolling pot. NOTHING wrong with pot. Those morons didn't convince me because I saw the effects pot had on folks.
It turned them into morons, albeit fairly happy morons.