Really. Would we really need to be handing out naloxone injectors everywhere if you could just buy a standardized, good dose of your preferred chemical joy ?

Me, don't touch the stuff, and never even smoked pot (although I **did** learn, from a serious pot-smoker down the hall in my college days, that I seem to be allergic to something in marijuana smoke. . . )

I find it amazing that so many are eager to deny the first and most basic principle of drug use: the user's needs come first, screw everyone and everybody else.

You don't care that dealers kill each other trying to bring you weed.

You don't.

You don't care.

You just want to get high.

Sure, you can point out the many uses of cannabinols when pressed, but don't pretend this isn't about getting high.

As a culture, we have decided that tobacco is worth cancer and emphysema, and that alcohol is worth nearly twenty thousand deaths per year, directly - and these are advanced as the best arguments for legalizing weed. That's how needy the users are.

Yes! There are benefits to legalizing weed. Change the law, based on these benefits. If you had done that to start with, YOUR DEMAND would NOT have produced such killing.

Quit trying to shift the blame.

According to historian Richard Shenkman, it's not that Prohibition didn't lower alcohol use - it did - but at too high a social cost, especially when it came to respect for the law in general.

I find it amazing that so many are eager to deny the first and most basic principle of drug use: the user's needs come first, screw everyone and everybody else.

Isn't this the same basic principle of the hamburger eater?

Rad, you are convinced that all drug use is abuse. It is not.

I drink alcohol. I don't drive impaired.

Why should I stop drinking alcohol because others might be assholes?

Do you support banning guns on the same "logic"?

Banning airplanes?

"You don't care that dealers kill each other trying to bring you weed."

LOL! Funniest thing I've read all day! Gun slinging crazed pot dealers shooting it out to get me some weed! Ha ha ha!
You see, if you're legal (medically) in CA, you can call up a delivery service that pays their sales taxes and will bring it to your door. There is a decided lack of any violence in the process.

Well, at least two people can't read my link.

By the way, Amy, you just endorsed a system of regulations – which includes inspections – to establish and maintain quality controls. Thank you.

Rad, that is a good link, but why would anyone follow it? Your comments preceding the link imply that _everyone_ using any drug - including alcohol and marijuana - is an addict who no longer cares about anything but his next drink or joint. Either you somehow wrote the opposite of what you meant, or you are utterly clueless about drugs. I have a limited of hours in the day, so why should I spend them reading more such posts?

"Rad, you are convinced that all drug use is abuse. It is not."

For Amy and markm - read this from the above:

Yes! There are benefits to legalizing weed. Change the law, based on these benefits.

And do try to notice that this article, like every other article about legalizing a drug, is about drugs which are illegal.

Now, just what motivation is there for the user?

It can't be civil rights or social justice. Peter Frieman, a leading figure in the legalization of marijuana, tells his audience that after informal polls in San Diego indicated over 90% acceptance of legalization, an actual referendum was almost exactly the opposite. Voters in favor stayed home.

It remains that if you select lawbreaking to advance your cause, you enable police power grabs which shred all of your liberties, not just whether you can giggle at SpongeBob in the morning.