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RE:”Can pot be “used in moderation”? I thought that a single puff can get you high, thus affecting your reasoning? (I’ve never tried it, nor would I ever do so, but I have plenty of friends who have smoked pot and they all claim that it affects you immediately.) You certainly need more than a sip of wine to affect your brain.”

I am on the fence on pot legalization.
In a vacuum it seems like a bad idea but as a substitute for alcohol it has its pluses and its minuses, and your minus has legitimacy. Plus its hard for cops to prove with drivers.
But alcohol has many minuses too that pot doesn't have.

I always post ‘no’ on threads lowering the legal age for drinking, it was 18 when I turned 18 and it wasn't pretty.
Of course most of those same kids under 18 drinking back in those days smoked pot too,

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Kids smoking pot is a disaster, but then again kids drinking can be pretty ugly too.

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RE SOL :”I always post ‘no’ on threads lowering the legal age for drinking, it was 18 when I turned 18 and it wasn't pretty.”

And that, along with my being against hard drug legalization, is an example why libertarians rejected me years ago even though many here thought I was a libertarian just because I turned against the GWB invade policy.

I don't fit any simple mold.

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“...I am on the fence on pot legalization...”

Well... on the one hand, what you (generic - not “you” specifically) decide to put in your body is your business. If you want to kill yourself with heroin or some other drug, by all means, do so, and deprive the gene pool of future stupidity.

On the other hand, do we really need MORE stoned idiots driving and creating hazards for other people just trying to get to work or home?

It’s already bad enough with drunks killing people on the road, in spite of the stiff penalties for drunk driving.

I’m not for it.