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Give me a break, I’m old enough to have seen lots go into and out of mental hospitals from it. I avoid people that use it, but some of my old friends started way back and were lost fairly seriously.

It ruins lives. Period. What you say, as a user, doesn’t matter since they never saw what was happening while they were on it.

Give me a break, I’m old enough to have seen lots go into and out of mental hospitals from it. I avoid people that use it, but some of my old friends started way back and were lost fairly seriously.

I'm sure you've seen many people go in and out of mental hospitals who are also pot users, but it's the old chicken and egg question: did the people develop mental problems from smoking pot, or did they start smoking pot to alleviate mental problems? Alcoholics frequently have other issues, but I have yet to see anyone, who claims that pot causes mental illness, claim that alcohol causes mental illness. With alcohol, people generally assume that the mental problems (depression, anxiety, etc.) occurred first, and the alcoholic took to drinking to drown those problems. That is the conventional thinking, but the exact same view could be taken of pot. It isn't, only because it has been propagandized for years that alcohol is good and marijuana bad.

As far as your friends go, were they ever taking any other drugs? Were these a bunch of 60s hippies who were dropping acid twice a week, but smoked pot more often, so pot gets blamed for everything? If we're going to use anecdotal evidence to go leaping to conclusions, then I'll say that I know a few lifelong pot users who function normally and have no overt problems. In fact, I've never met a pot user who had mental issues, but then, I don't know any old hippies from the 60s.

It ruins lives. Period. What you say, as a user, doesn’t matter since they never saw what was happening while they were on it.

Give us a break. I'm old enough to have used marijuana for more than 40 years. In that time. I have been successful in business, and have raised 4 fabulous kids. One of them is a cop, one a teacher, two are married mommies at home.

Your rant is a knee-jerk reaction, and is totally BS. Yes, I said you are spreading BS.

Alcohol has ruined more lives than pot could ever do. I rarely smoke pot any more. I drink good scotch, and just put down a Montecristo 7 that I bought on close-out at Costco today. They were $39.97 for 12, with a free travel humidor. It didn't have the new tax applied, and was a great deal.

I also got a box of Acid Def Sea's in the mail, along with the Cigars International catalog.

I have tickets ($125 each) for their Cigarfest next month. I'm going with a friend. He's a cop (not my son). He and I will smoke a bowl or two on the way... and never cross the center line, nor take any extra looks at white women (that last part may be a lie. I am a man)!

You may not like pot, but your stated reasons are not up to the job. They are based on propaganda and emotion. Isn't that exactly what got Zero elected?