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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:


If you were a consumer of alcohol the day before Prohibition took
effect,
would you stop consuming it the next day, when it became illegal?
Yes.
In that case, you're exactly the kind of sheep that politicians thrive
on.
Pot is no worse for you than alcohol. Pot does a job on your lungs, and
MAYBE your brain. Booze does a job on your liver, stomach, esophagus,
and
MAYBE your brain. Pot is illegal because of outmoded beliefs, many of
which
originated with racist nonsense left over from J. Edgar Hoover's
earliest
days.



Pot is racist?



Its use was initially attacked early in the last century by the
government because Southern lawmakers thought its use by black people led
to madness and criminal behavior. Obviously, these lawmakers were happy
to ignore all the violence caused by drunkenness. The next myth used by
the law enforcement mob was that pot use led to harder drugs, an anecdote
that's been totally shredded by actual statistics.


Who's statistics, "High Times"?


Your doctor's. Ask him.


You really are a pothead like Kevin.


You're an alcoholic.