[garjog]

“The prohibition of alcohol...”demon alcohol” itself. Same with pot.”

You are persuaded by the libertarians. Live and let live. OK. But, my point is that sometimes society needs to protect vulnerable members.

I don’t want to live in a city where fifty percent of the workers are stoned. (Seemed that way when I visited Palm Springs in December).

To compare pot to alcohol is simply a false analogy.

Alcohol has been a pervasive part of human culture for 10,000 years. We drink wine at meals and at religious rituals. It is nothing like pot. People smoke pot to get high.

No one smokes pot to express culture. You can drink without getting drunk. To ban one and not the other is not a contradiction but social sanity.

[FerociousRabbit]

“No one smokes pot to express culture.”

You’ve never been to a Pink Floyd concert!

[dragnet2]

To compare pot to alcohol is simply a false analogy. Alcohol has been a pervasive part of human culture for 10,000 years. We drink wine at meals and at religious rituals. It is nothing like pot. People smoke pot to get high. No one smokes pot to express culture. You can drink without getting drunk.

That's the funniest damn thing I've heard in the past 4 hours.

It make come as a dramatic shock to you, but alcohol has killed more people, and destroyed more families, than any drug, ever. Alcohol is a vicious mass murdering drug, when compared to something like pot. The graveyards are jammed with drinkers and victims of drinkers.