Interesting implications in #113 that because pot is illegal we are living in a police state! I don't think it has gotten that bad on account of pot being illegal. It is a good question that everyone needs to ask themselves....how far are we willing to go, or let it go, before we say the government has too much power and too much control? I think that when it comes to taking away my religious liberty I will take a stand. The issue of guns is not the same as the issue of pot, though I understand your feeling that if one is granted the other may not be far off.
I have seen what can happen to a positive, punctual, neat, responsible, dependable, honest, hard-working person when he got involved with pot. It turned him into the total opposite in less than a year's time. I realize it was also his responsiblity for his making that choice, but there isn't anyone who can tell me it is a totally harmless drug. It ruined a man, and what could have been a terrific career. I do not need statitics or studies....I saw it firsthand destroy a brilliiant man! What more proof would I need? None!
I know lots of cannabis smokers, and have know many more over the years, and have not seen one with the effects you describe. Perhaps we are practicing correlation instead of causation, hum?
You don't know anything at all about cannabis, do you? If I were given to guesses, I'd guess that you were told inaccurate information by authority figures, just as ignorant themselves, and you believed without researching their sources.
After such conditioning, it's simple to assume that the failure of a man who smokes cannabis is because of the cannabis. The flaw in that pseudo-reasoning, of course, is that, when faced with others that smoke the plant and succeed in life, the pseudo-reasoning collapses making the proponent thereof look mildly foolish.
