[mmasters]

Washington and Colorado think so!

[Rod_Cloutier]

Not for Athsmatics like myself. I can't be near anyone smoking anything.

[careinke]

Cannabis should be a top plant in any permaculturists garden.

It has lots of uses:
Medicine
Recreation
Fiber
Recreation
Oil
Recreation
Food
Recreation
Paper
Recreation
Soil regeneration
Recreation
Carbon Capture
and of Course... Recreation

Seriously though, its a great plant. People like Feinstien and Obama (One for you Plant), need to quit trying to control other people, and worry about more important stuff like Climate Change, the Debt, and Energy Decent.

[careinke]

Not for Athsmatics like myself. I can't be near anyone smoking anything.

Why do you need to smoke it? In the medical marijuana shops here you can get candy, ice cream, tea, pretzels, the list goes on...

[Narz]

I had it in some cookies once, very nice.

[Ayoob]

The #1 reason I would like it legalized is to kick the legs out from under illegal drug running gangs. There have been social experiments done several times where legal marijuana disrupted the meth and heroin trade because marijuana was "good enough." It would suck vast amounts of money out of the criminal underground. Marijuana is kind of safe relative to alcohol and any kind of IV drugs. It's good for anxiety, sleep, cancer patients, pain, and other uses. It grows like a weed.

There is the sticky question about children getting their hands on it. The funny thing is that kids can get their hands on marijuana easier than they can get alcohol today. I would prefer to have some way to keep teenagers from using marijuana due to how it affects the development of brain function. However, the cost benefit is so strong for legalizing that I think parents should just be vigilant about supervising their children.

As always, if the parents don't care, the kids will do what they want.

I wish we could just establish an age at which people become adults and can do as they wish. Drinking alcohol, use marijuana, join the armed services, drive a car, get a full time job with benefits, get married, all that stuff. Pick an age, have a ceremony to celebrate Adulthood, and hope you did a good enough job with them for the first 14-16-18-21 years to set them free.

For my daughters, it's going to be 35.

[dinopello]

Not for Athsmatics like myself. I can't be near anyone smoking anything.

Up here folks like candy, brownies, liquids from whole-plant cannabanoid extracts. It has benefits--no burning, no smell, and the dose can be controlled to the appropriate function. Some folks might need a constant, low-intensity delivery system for particular illnesses. Others want to get crazy.

What about vaporizing ? Some guy I knew in high school uses for medical reasons and does that.

[Buddy_J]

Mary Jane is just one of those distractions TPTB use to make sure people have to lie on job applications, or on the forms to buy a gun. Hand out the dope, then watch the bait to identify those susceptible to weakness. #1 gateway to the real stuff, identify them early before they become meth heads.

[ralfy]

TPTB hands out greenbacks.

[SamInNebraska]

TPTB hands out greenbacks.

To moochers and reliefers maybe. Last time someone handed me a greenback it was in exchange for actually doing something of value for them. I suppose in the creeping socialism of the modern world more and more will stand there with a silly look on their faces and with their hands out...today for greenbacks, tomorrow, joints for everyone!

[ralfy]

TPTB hands out greenbacks.

To moochers and reliefers maybe. Last time someone handed me a greenback it was in exchange for actually doing something of value for them. I suppose in the creeping socialism of the modern world more and more will stand there with a silly look on their faces and with their hands out...today for greenbacks, tomorrow, joints for everyone!

Actually to anyone who uses money.

[Wednesday]

It's not really a "drug." It's an herb.

I haven't hit a bong in a really long time, but I think I would like it.