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"Drugs are bad, MMMkay?" -- Mr. Mackey from South Park

As long as Marijuana can be used a political wedge to scare old folks, it will remain the "boogey man". Nothing scarier than the image of the stoned, axe wielding rapist from US Government propaganda films of the 40s and 50s that were pumped into our "seasoned citizens" back then.

If you folks want marijuana to be legal, you are going to have to wait until the current generation of old folks become ex-social security recipients.

It's the potheads own fault that pot is still illegal. Most of them don't vote. Jeez, there's supposed to be like what 20 million potheads in the US? The ones that do vote appear to vote for the same parties that want to imprison them. You would think they would at least vote Libertarian or the Constitution party. The LP wants to outright legalize all drugs and the CP views it as a States Rights issue and wants the federal government out of it (except for drug interdiction along our borders)

Of course they would probably not win any offices, but I believe it would scare the heck out of the mainstream parties and cause them to rethink their views.

I would think that 20 million voters would be a rather large voting block. Especially when you consider the number of friends and family who may vote the same way.

So what do potheads do? They just kick back, smoke their weed and let life pass them by, hoping they don't get caught and then whining about the injustice of it when they do.

I'm against the WOD for Constitutional reasons. However, if potheads won't even stand up and fight for themselves, then I have a hard time feeling sorry for them.

RLTW!!

Semper Suo

If you folks want marijuana to be legal, you are going to have to wait until the current generation of old folks become ex-social security recipients.

Callous, but accurate. All of this whooping and hollaring about the ineffectiveness of the WOD, as far as marijuana is concerned, is really a waste of time. As soon as the number of people who have actually used it rises, the social attitude about it will change, and either all drugs (meaning cigs and alcohol) will become illegal, or marijuana will be added to the fold of "ok" drugs to use.

If you folks want marijuana to be legal, you are going to have to wait until the current generation of old folks become ex-social security recipients.

You'd certainly have to wait until this old f@rt expires. I guess I'm just too personally close to a feller who is a pothead on "disability". He does manage however to recover a couple of evenings a week enough to get off his fat @ss and get over to a local pub to play his drums.

Go ahead and legalize it, his name will be legion.