Recreational pot

When all this is legally settled will I still end up standing in line next to some citizen reeking of patchouli oil at Taco Bell?

Yes

Leo Dogg wrote:

patchouli oil

Had to Google that one….

-J.

Well one thing is for sure is that weed is not going away. When I was in my late teens and early 20’s I smoked it because it was enjoyable, it was either Mexican, Jamacian or weed that was brought back with the troops in Vietnam and their duffle bags were full, I knew a couple of those guys that were back from the front lines just a couple weeks before. We were good friends in high school and I was the first friend they came and seen.

Ive been watching any report I can see, on the levels of addiction in the overall population in general, The reports I’ve seen said theres certain people who are more incline to be more attracted to a certain drug then others. Meaning cocaine attracts a certain type and heroine attacks another type and marijuana attracts another type, and so on down the line.

A friend of mine bought a cabin in Marquette Iowa and you can spit and hit the water in the main channel. We went to Prarie across the river to get supplies and stopped at Starks because he likes to drink craft beer. While in there it was very brisk in sales to say the least and I seen about a half dozen carts that were filled to the top with 40 packs and others had different amounts of what they chose to drink. Im not going to point the finger and say these folks were drinking to much because they could have been from 50 miles away and were making their monthly stops. But my reaction was man I couldn’t drink that much in a year, nor do I want to. I don’t drink much at all anymore because I just don’t want to. I drank my fair share when I was younger and enjoyed it too, it was alot of fun. Im 67 and looking back I can see i didn’t drink so much that ive got any organ damage and I have one good friend who died from liver disease. I know a couple other guys who have liver disease now and held onto their jobs and made good money and have a very good retirement are still in the bars all the time, its sorry to say but I know whats more then likely going to happen to them. I asked John one day and he knew I didn’t want to hurt his feelings and asked, if weed were legalized back in the 60’s or 70’s would he be in the bars everyday and he immediately came back and said no that he’d be smoking weed, so he knew he had a problem but found his happiness there.

So along the lines of what people like to do for intertainment in their lives and the overall benefit of society, I can see where legalizing marijuana would help. Alot of the population, in varying degrees, like a different buzz from one thing or another so why not have a legal substance that causes minimal Harm over a long period of time.

I think theres all kinds of folks who know someone who smokes it who dont themselves but see that person as responsible and in control of their daily lives, and their rest assured that that person isn’t harming themselves or at a level thats very very minimal.

I look at it as if people want to smoke it let them do it, like we really have a choice, because their going to buy it off the streets anyway, and if it does minimal harm theres not a whole lot to worry about, and make some money from the taxes but don’t price it out of the universe so people go back to the streets to buy cheaper and weed that’s just as good. I personally feel its harm reduction to society in General as the best solution because 60 years of fighting it and trillions of dollars isn’t working. For more addictive drugs, why not use the taxes from marijuana sales and direct that to rehab for the ones who need it or want it.

Saw some show set in the 60s where the businessman quits his job and shacks up with the hippies. Takes a drag, lovingly looks at his joint and says: ‘all that Vodka when their was this..”