A stupid hick?
Are you familiar with Hank Williams Jr at all? Specifically the song: Country Boy Can Survive...
"A stupid hick" is going to outlast you in most circumstances, buddy.
Regardless, back on topic...sort of...
All you say is that marijuana won't kill you. Uhh, that's great. It definitely screws you up.
Why do you want marijuana legal?
For substitute of a painkiller? Painkillers you pop in your mouth or hook up to your vein. Weed...you smoke. No one gets high when you pop a pill. People can get contact highs from you smoking your marijuana. Whether someone wants to or not, they are getting high from a
posting.php?mode=reply&f=18&t=45555• Post a replysubstance not prescribed to them. Plus, they are getting secondhand smoke.
What about operating a motor vehicle?
Your reflexes aren't as quick when you're under the influence of marijuana. Plus, the pretty lights of the local strip club (because of the bad road America is going down...) might be more interesting to pay attention to than the boring old road.
How do you suppose we regulate marijuana?
Just do it? What about the fact that one bud could get someone baked and the same bud could barely get another person buzzing. How do you regulate that? You can't. Plus, commercial marijuana used for medicinal purposes is sold around $10-20 higher than most street prices! People will still grow their own and sell it illegally. Plus, who's going to grow this? Is the government going to let farmers grow it so they can make some money? Or is the government going to subsidize this and become drug dealers themselves? Our government is already responsible for pills, why in the world would they make themselves responsible for even more drugs?
What about people who actually want to be successful in life? Would you want a stoner making the decisions that top-ranking military officials make? Or politicians? Or doctors?