Shouldn't the Anti-Marijuana types admit they're going to lose this battle?

[Taverner]

More and more smokers every day

More and more casual acceptance

They are a dwindling minority, and they, like Fuckwad Carrie Nation, should realize they've been bested and they're on the wrong side of history?

[Warpy]

1. Unfortunately, many of them are the rich and powerful

because they think people who toke up on weekends are going to want to relax instead of working more overtime.

That's why they made it illegal, the feeling that pot was what was making all the black folks and Mexicans so lazy.

The fact that neither group has ever been particularly lazy and in fact that both groups have contributed to building this country far out of proportion to their numbers has always escaped fat, rich white men chomping on their cigars and surrounded by real wood paneling and leather furniture.

It's racist. It's also classist. And that is why the only way to get rid of those laws is wholesale civil disobedience.

[Taverner]

2. Well since NONE OF THEM are hiring us, isn't it none of their beeswax

Besides, their heirs smoke it!

And soon they will control the $$$ - or not...

[Warpy]

4. Well, their heirs can handle it, dontcha know

Either that or they're blaming the fact that their heirs are turning out to be assholes on whatever their drugs of choice are.

[7wo7rees]

5. +1

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[JohnnyRingo]

3. I've made notice on one fact.

I haven't heard the political phrase "soft on drugs" in years.

About ten years ago pols feared the topic of legalization because their conservative opponent would run commercials bashing them over the head with how the incumbent was trying to turn high school students into drug fueled followers of Charle Manson... and it worked. In the years since, well funded public education by groups such as NORML have turned the rabid doberman dogma of marijuana legalization into a cuddly face licking Shar Pei that loves cookies. Lots of cookies. With milk.

Given too that anyone under 60 years of age by now grew up with at least one pot smoking friend, politicians accused of being "soft on drugs" find themselves with a reduced charge of "soft on soft drugs", barely a political misdemeaner and not worth the politcal price of a campaign prosecution.

Frankly, if I could free this moment in time, I believe this is the ideal social climate for marijuana users. While it's still illegal, it's no longer an underground drug... or at least no more so than your mom's basement. I'm a social and fiscal dyed in the wool liberal, but a staunch marijuana libertaian. When I say "keep the government out of my weed", I consider the typical govt overstep that will lead to regulation so strict that some finer strains of rope will be considered too powerful for the general public and regulated out like 160 proof Tennessee White Lightnin'.

The price increase from taxation is even more threatening. What politician looking to fund a pet project can resist voting for the quick fix of a weed tax increase? If taxes are the Black Tar heroin of government, legal marijuana is indeed the gateway drug.

[cliffordu]

6. I shorely hope they do.

I don't want anyone else to do a SINGLE FUCKING DAY IN JAIL for a goddamned weed that grows on the side of the fucking road.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. I'm just wondering when people will start to really crunch the number$$$. That'll do it.

I mean, that was really what got it moving in California.

Appeals to reason, sanity, decency, may not work.. but when the American People are hurting in their pocketbook, sooner or later they're going to wonder why the fuck they're spending $40 Billion a year to keep Willie Nelson from getting high in the back of his tour bus.

[tekisui]

8. Here is just a sample, and focuses only on medical marijuana.