Originally Posted By: bobcflatpicker
I must admit that I'm surprised at all of the vitriol I'm seeing against the legalization of pot.

I've always thought that it was ridiculous for people to be put in jail for doing something that is none of the government's business or anyone else's business. I remember reading an article when I was just a kid about this young man who was busted for a $10 bag of pot in Texas and ended up getting life in prison because the judge declared him a "career criminal". His only previous offence was breaking into a pop machine to steal change when he was 15.

Classifying pot as a schedule 1 drug is nonsense.

"Marijuana is a schedule I drug under the Controlled Substance Act passed by the Congress in 1970. A schedule I drug is a dangerous substance that has no recognized medical use and that has a high potential for abuse. In addition to marijuana, heroin, LSD and ecstasy are schedule I substances."

Considering that I can go to any convenience store and buy alcohol and get a whole lot more wasted on it than I ever could on pot just highlights how stupid our antiquated laws against it are.

It's good to see more states are looking to legalize it for recreational use. I hope to live to see the day when this becomes one more draconian law erased from our books.

I'm totally against heavy drugs and I've seen first hand how they can wreck peoples lives. If pot is in any way a gateway drug, it's primarily because most people still have to go to a drug dealer to get it instead of being able to plant it in their garden next to the tomatoes and peppers.

We need to stop trying to legislate things that are personal decisions. Stop making criminals out of people who are otherwise upstanding citizens.

Well said, Bob! Well said indeed!