[killernoodle]

All I am saying is that other people's stupid decisions should not impact the saftey, livelihood, and welfare of myself and others that choose not to participate in recreational drugs.

Name one positive thing that can come from smoking weed, other than a cure from glycoma.... i'm waiting.... yeah, there is nothing besides a high that only the idiot smoking the stuff can enjoy while he/she has more of a potential to risk the lives of people around him/her or even himself/herself.

Do you really want pot heads in the workplace? If marijuana was legalized, how many kids do you think will go to school stoned? Arent there already enough drunkards in the workplace? Do we want stoner taxi-drivers or pilots?

Also, alcohol is something else that I cannot tolerate to be around. What is the point of getting piss drunk anyways? You just end up with a hangover in the morning and not knowing what happened the previous night and a scarred kidney. I know there is no way to stop alcohol or marijuana, people will always act on primitive impulses such as the need for pleasure, even if it is killing them.

I know it is unhealthy to eat fried foods, drink excessive amounts of soda and not exercise on a regular basis. That is why I dont do it. I am probably one of the healthiest eating persons I know. I am 6'2" and weigh about 135. I know how to take care of my body. I dont see why so many people cannot do the same and continue to take the same course through life, denying all that is rational. The simple fact is that people like me will end up paying for people that live unhealthy lifestyles, whether we like it or not and that, my friend, is what is wrong with this country. Ideally, people should pay for their own medicare and have that part of the taxes removed. Medicare is too much of a socialist idea and penalizes the healthy people more than the unhealthy. I dont mind paying for an old lady who needs a new hip, but if someone has liver problems and is on dialysis because he drank too much in his life, or a guy is on oxygen because he smoked too much, I shouldnt have to pay out of my pocket for them.

Also, will the person who smokes pot every day be more functional than the guy who eats McDonalds every day? Are all pot heads anti-Mcdonalds? Weed only compounds the problems the country has already. I figure that if marijuana is legalized, cocaine is next, then heroine, then after a while people will be injecting everything into themselves for fun and, you guessed it, we'll have to pay for it eventually. We have enough problems already with fat people, smokers, and drinkers, do we really need the problems assiciated with excessive marijuana smoking?

I'm still waiting for that one positive side effect of pot...