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You think there's a thin line between smoking cigarettes and smoking pot? What, just because they contain the word "smoking"?

Well, I see a difference. Do you see a "thin line" between smoking cigarettes and smoking crack? Or smoking pot with PCP? Smoking pot with formaldehyde? Laced with heroin? Laced with cocaine?

Pot by itself is certainly no more harmful than cigarettes. Crack is a thin strawman, and you know it. Sure you can lace pot with these other substances, but you can also do that with cigarettes...you can also lace alcohol with illegal substances, so should we ban alcohol again? And laced pot is a product of the black market, whose prevelance would no doubt go down with legalization. Surely you can answer the question without resorting to strawman arguments?

The point is, you are using some of the same arguments that the anti-smoking crew uses to justify it's case, and you don't even see you are doing it. You think it's okay for someone to smoke or drink in the privacy of their own home, but argue tooth and nail against pot. I could understand if you were trying to make the argument JUST against crack or heroin. Again, this seems disingenuous to me.

The point is, you are using some of the same arguments that the anti-smoking crew uses to justify it's case,

I should clarify for a moment, cause I am seeing a disconnect, and I do apologize for that. You are using some of the same arguments to justify keeping pot illegal that these anti-smokers use in order to try and continually make smoking tobacco a less and less legal activity.

You think it's okay for someone to smoke or drink in the privacy of their own home, but argue tooth and nail against pot. I could understand if you were trying to make the argument JUST against crack or heroin. Again, this seems disingenuous to me.

For the record...a lot of people, (yes, even in the '60s) chose tobacco and alcoholic beverages because they were legal, as opposed to illegal drugs. Since that is their basis for smoking, I see a huge difference.

Back when I was in Junior High and High School, moderation within the law was acceptable. So, I can see how people have a tobacco habit. I can't accept that people took up something they knew was illegal.