So let me understand this for a moment; some of you are advocating as well as saying it wouldn't bother you if marijuana was legal....using the logic and comparative concepts of alcohol...
So it is alright to get completely stoned and out of your head, and then jump in a vehicle? It's alright, for (you KNOW people already do it EVERY day) people to get high, which can last for hours, and show up to work?
Especially if that work involves operating heavy machinery, dangerous equipment, tools or using chemicals?
It is also much more difficult to determine when somebody is high. There are steps that can be taken to simply hide the visible effects.
Alcohol has been legal and widespread for hundreds of years...its a part of almost every culture.
It is legal in the United States, considering at the time there was no thought given to the idea of drunk driving since cars didn't exist, no thought was given to the dangerousness of operating heavy machinery and equipment. It didn't exist. There is a reason why places of employment that have these aspects as part of their business test for drugs.
Also, talk about unprofessional. Weed smells like the inside of a horses a**. And yes, I know pretty well what that smells like. I drive carriage. You want to walk around smelling like that? And you want your house to smell like that? You want to talk to people you know with bloodshot eyes and dilated pupils and act like a fool because your brain activity is a 1/4 of what it should be? Makes sense...
Better yet, you want to be a gun owner and smoke weed? Wow. Just, wow.
Marijuana is destructive; it impairs your judgment sometimes on a level much WORSE than alcohol, including but not limited to, delusions and hallucinations.
Marijuana, when smoked consistently, has damaging amounts of mercury in it. When smoked it actually makes the exposure worse, and we all know what hot mercury can do in pure form.
So being stoned and drunk while the gov. does as they please is what you would have? Makes perfect sense.
I suppose what I am trying to say is if you think problems with alcoholism are bad, how about the problems of legal marijuana use compounded with the combination of alcohol?
Pandora's box begs to be opened, however that does not mean you should.
Eve took a bite of forbidden fruit, and look where that led.
Food for thought.