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The cops are smoking and joking, high-fiving each other.

A little bit of hypocrisy there for you ... while the cops murder someone for being involved with drugs, they themselves flaunt their own addicition, which by the way kills a lot more people each year than pot does - or all illegal drugs combined for that matter.

And the War On (some) Drugs continues.

Last year around this time I was invited to play in a golf outing by someone I know who said he was invited by "some good customers". He runs a fast food joint.

We went, it turned out to be a DEA outing. I was fascinated by the antics. It rained, the agents decended on the beer barrels at 9 am. They were drinking out of the pitchers. Almost all of them were falling down drunk in a short time. I'm sure they all had designated drivers to take them home at 11:30 in the morning when they ran the barrels dry.

Amazing stuff.

proof that misinformation gets out no matter how hard one fights it. My great aunt lived a long healthy life and died at age 106. She smoked 1-2 packs a day from the time she was a teenager and died of natural causes. No cancer. No diseases. And she's not an exception to the rule. The exception to the rule is the small percentage of people that are harmed by comparison to the massive numbers of smokers around the world. Sugar is a mind altering drug, let's ban it. NoT. See there is a difference in many of these things. Too much coffee doesn't make people go rob their neighbors blind to maintain the habit. Nor does it cause people to rob banks or stick guns in the noses of gas station attendants to pay for the next dime bag. Drugs are dangerous things. They destroy brain cells and cause what many lovingly call burnouts - people who have the thought capacity of the average butt splinter and the personality of a stunned cow - or worse. Drug addiction is not a little thing. Nor is it a harmless thing. And I can tell you from experience of seeing what it has done to friends and even an ex-girlfriend or two. I dated a meth addict for a while not realizing she was one at the start. It was a hidden thing. Her kids didn't have good meals and were lugged about from one home to the next for a long time before she ended up with me - all of which I found out after the fact. She sponged off of people, used and abused them and walked over anyone in her way. All her money went to meth. Her kids ate what I provided or struggled by on cheetos and cheerios when not in my company because she couldn't afford to take care of them and be high. Marijuana is not without it's problems either. And people who try to downplay it are liars at best. Drugs are bad news - and so are the people who take them. That's why they are illegal and should remain so.