On 03/08/2010 05:48 PM, John Massey -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 JM> On 3/8/2010 7:04 PM, Ed Hulett -> John Massey wrote:
 EH>> On 03/08/2010 02:23 PM, John Massey -> Ed Hulett wrote:


 EH>>>>>> No, it is addiction. When a person feels the
need to get high,
 JM> it is
 EH>>>>>> addiction.


 JM>>>>> If a person feels the need for a cup of coffee in
the morning to
 JM> "get
 JM>>>>> their eyes open" does that mean they are
addicted to coffee?

 EH>>>> Yes.

 JM>>> Fair enough So it's not the addiction part of it that makes smoking
 JM> pot
 JM>>> illegal, so must be something with its the the effect it has on the
 JM>>> addicted person. What effect is that? Being Lazy? Eating a lot?
 JM> Clearly
 JM>>> it's not smart to suck hot smoke directly into the lungs
because if it
 JM>>> was, tobacco smokers would be filling the prisons.
 JM>>> If we made every stupid thing humans do illegal, everything would be
 JM>>> illegal.
 JM>>> Is it because it makes people insane?
 JM>>> In spike of how pot smokers are portrayed in the
"reefer madness" ask
 JM>>> any LEO, they will tell you that they would much rather arrest a
 EH>> pothead
 JM>>> than a drunk because they are not violent.

 JM>>> So why should pot be illegal?

 EH>> Where did the argument over legality come from? This thread started
 JM> with
 EH>> my comment about John Patrick Bedell holding a "medical
marijuana" card
 EH>> to feed his addiction. I didn't once comment on whether pot should be
 EH>> legal or not.

 JM> Sorry, haven't been keeping up. I have often wondered why somethings
 JM> like catching a nice buzz with some good brandy or Cognac is accepted
 JM> and something similar, smoking a bowl of some premo homegrown is not.
 JM> So I guess, to answer your question, it comes from me. Nothing personal
 JM> meant by it.

You aren't the only one on here trying to argue legality with me, Otto is
making up quotes and then attributing them to me, but what else can we
expect from that moron?

Personally, I don't have an answer to the legality question. It's an issue
I don't think about often. The libertarian in me says legalize and the
conservative in me says keep the federal government out of it. I know this
will surprise a lot of people, but I don't care. I'm just not going to
argue the issue one way or the other for one reason, there is no one on the
pro-legalization side who can honestly argue the issue. Most of them will
make blanket statements about the herb that just aren't supported by the
facts.

With that, I end this thread on my part.

Ed

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