Why do people like you automatically assume the mere legality of something would mean that people who want to use that thing would use it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Beer is legal for adults over the age of 21. Plenty of people love beer, and drink it. Do you then assume all people who love and drink beer do so 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
Why do some people pretend that drug users are rational and make reasoned decisions about their lifestyle.
Point is, every one has personal life "experiences" with various subjects. You want pot made legalized, and OldFriend was cracking a joke. Not a joke, in my book. It happened. Lost numerous highschool chums in midst-party movement, around "suicide bend". And maybe they woulda still not made the "bend" high or not. But those Thai sticks back then, were mighty powerful. But maybe it was the opium burnt on an electric range and inhaled through a rolled up newspaper. Who knows.
Nonetheless, I think Buckley and Friedman are right - it is getting near time to unleash the Cracken.
With all the documentation surrounding the "pot is harmless" movement, it's time to stop forking out massive amounts of tax dollars to stop people from "doing what they are going to do regardless".
And yes, in the past, pot was neither legal nor illegal.
Remember those old rhubarbs from various "political identity movements"? cia unleashed CRACK on the black community in order to convict only "blacks"? Legalizing pot might just put a halt to those conspiracies.
Maybe it's because we've read replies in this very forum from legalizers who say that they can do anything, to include driving, "as well or better" while stoned.