I often wondered what is the real reason for busting pot smokers.

All drugs aren't the same and some can certainly be poison but alcohol strikes me as more of a dangerous drug than pot.

Is making it illegal a way on cracking down on social rebellion?

Are they worried that people will get so stoned they will stop working? Will their desperate need for a 'fix,' drive them to crime?

Will pot smokers turn wild and crazy and kill people?

Will it rot your brain so when you turn senile you will be twice as senile? Will memory become so erased that folks will forget their names?

These are the types of reasons I've heard.

I think the 'old-fashioned,' idea of a crime being a crime is good, mea...

I often wondered what is the real reason for busting pot smokers.

All drugs aren't the same and some can certainly be poison but alcohol strikes me as more of a dangerous drug than pot.

Is making it illegal a way on cracking down on social rebellion?

Are they worried that people will get so stoned they will stop working? Will their desperate need for a 'fix,' drive them to crime?

Will pot smokers turn wild and crazy and kill people?

Will it rot your brain so when you turn senile you will be twice as senile? Will memory become so erased that folks will forget their names?

These are the types of reasons I've heard.

I think the 'old-fashioned,' idea of a crime being a crime is good, meaning that you clearly do something that hurts another person: that's a crime.

Victimless crimes are just moral judgements.

I think nations should wake up and start growing pot since the banks are failing, people deep in debt, unemployment rising and our industrial base faded away into globalization and 'free trade.'

Hemp is a tough fabric, too. It was used in the old days to make strong ropes and ship sails.

Instead of crime-free people being in prison they could be growing pot, making money and paying taxes.

We're fools. Perhaps the real purpose of the Drug Wars is as another excuse to go anywhere in the world with our military, another excuse for interference and conquest, esp. in Central and South America.

Plus it has the added benefit as a excuse to 'make war,' upon your own people.

One often unreported fact is that some people are addicted to bad things, like heroin but they discovered that pot would mellow them out enough so they wouldn't need to stick a needed in their arm.

It also has positive medical usages.

FREEDOM actually does mean FREEDOM (of course the normal law of not hurting people still applies).
But if I wanted to smoke pot, sniff coke, stick a needle in my toes and hang upside down in my living room, swinging back and forth singing the Star Spangled B

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But if I wanted to smoke pot, sniff coke, stick a needle in my toes and hang upside down in my living room, swinging back and forth singing the Star Spangled Banner -- well, even that should be allowed: private and personal freedom.

A society tends to grow fascist when it wants to control what songs people sing while swinging back and further, hanging from the ceiling in their own living room; or when society wants to control -- like it use to -- what goes on in the bed room; or, even worse, god knows' what people are doing on their computers and with their keyboards!

Of course (above) I suppose that would be called a very liberal position; I guess so. I don't really like being ca...

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But if I wanted to smoke pot, sniff coke, stick a needle in my toes and hang upside down in my living room, swinging back and forth singing the Star Spangled Banner -- well, even that should be allowed: private and personal freedom.

A society tends to grow fascist when it wants to control what songs people sing while swinging back and further, hanging from the ceiling in their own living room; or when society wants to control -- like it use to -- what goes on in the bed room; or, even worse, god knows' what people are doing on their computers and with their keyboards!

Of course (above) I suppose that would be called a very liberal position; I guess so. I don't really like being called a liberal and I see it more as a PERSONAL FREEDOM position.

I was in Amsterdam for some time (ik von and ik verk en Amsterdam seven yar) - ? - something like that. And my favorite thing was to smoke Northern Lights # 5, sit on my outside balcony with Jimmy Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner and throw a flower to every attractive older girl or woman who went pedaling by on their bike.

It was fun; and it was freedom. (And nobody was hurt)