Pot in America

[--Pete]

Hi,

First of all, most of these concoctions have no demonstrable benefit other than getting the subject "high" and quite a few have potentially deadly side effects.

Thank you, nanny. The same is true of tobacco, alcohol, rich deserts, and fatty foods. Who died and made you the arbiter of what the rest of the population should or should not do. Take care of yourself and let others go to hell in their own way.

You're basically not getting anything out of legalization except making it easier to create even more addicts.

Are you ignorant or a hypocrite? Because the fact is that nations having more relaxed laws about the use of drugs (including alcohol) have less addicts (per capita, of course) and fewer problems with the addicts they have.

Secondly, people do things while high on drugs that they likely would never do were they in a sober state, some of which are potentially deadly not only to themselves but to those around them.

I'm much more likely to break a law awake than I am asleep. Should being awake then be made a crime? If driving under the influence is bad (and it is), then outlaw that. Do not outlaw being under the influence. Or driving.

There's nothing "safe" about allowing the production of non-medicinal drugs. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

Then you have a damned tiny imagination. And a mightily tightly closed mind.

--Pete