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As long as he throws drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, eating junk food, and vain cosmetic surgery to the list, I have no problems...

One can drink alcohol without getting drunk. Smoking cigarettes is a vice, but not one that is endangering our culture. Eating junk food isn't a vice unless that is all you eat gluttonously. And cosmetic surgery is, in my opinion wrong, but not a vice.

On the other hand, smoking pot is to get high. I do not understand why we should encourage that type of behavior by destigmatizing and legalizing a substance that leads to so many other vices.

One can drink alcohol without getting drunk.

Yet many people do. If you've been to any college campus over the last 10 years (or even longer), you'll know that the weekends are filled with violent drunks who imbibe to excess. Carry Nation and the Christian Temperance Union would have taken exception with you on the "harmlessness" of Alcohol.

Smoking cigarettes is a vice, but not one that is endangering our culture.

If you don't count the billions we incur each year in lost dollars and productivity. Yet, for some reason we still keep it legal (mostly)

Eating junk food isn't a vice unless that is all you eat gluttonously. And cosmetic surgery is, in my opinion wrong, but not a vice.

And vanity and gluttony aren't deadly sins? Yet we still keep these things legal (mostly)

On the other hand, smoking pot is to get high.

And there are people who smoke pot to get slightly buzzed without full on stoned, just as you cite people who drink just to get buzzed without getting drunk. There are many people in college who smoke pot, yet hold down jobs, or 4.0 GPA's, or are otherwise upright citizens. I know that in my college days, I had far more to fear from crazed, violent drunks running through the hallways of my dorm than peaceful, zoned out stoners. Not that I support any group that engages in a particular activity to an extreme.

I do not understand why we should encourage that type of behavior by destigmatizing and legalizing a substance that leads to so many other vices.

And alcohol doesn't lead to many other vices? How many rapes or DUI's or violent, heat of moment murders had alcohol involved as a major component? How do you explain this apparent hypocrisy? (sp) What made the Christian Temperance Union "wrong" in getting alcohol banned, but you right in saying it's "ok"?

What's next? Are you going to quote us Reefer Madness, and tell us how pot makes white women seek out relationships with the "negro male?", or how it makes people listen to Jazz music and commit violent, insane crimes?

If it was something like cocaine or heroin, or something DANGEROUS, sure, I'd totally be with you. But trying to say that pot is worse than alcohol? Not buying that...