Originally Posted by
dan
I tend to agree with TheHawk, to a degree. First of all, if they were to just open the floodgates and completely legalize it, there would be a massive amount of people who would smoke nonstop, simply because they could. That wouldn't do anyone any good. Of course, the fact is, potheads aren't prone to want to take up important positions, anyway, so we'd probably just be inundated with a higher amount of artists and aspiring musicians.
Fact is, at least in my experience, anybody that's curious about smoking pot has done it, or could do it very, very easily. I'm not sure if it's just a regional thing or what, but from the time I started going to parties in high school, pot was just as common at every social gathering (outside of bars, obviously) as booze. I honestly can't think of a single person I know personally who's NEVER done it. So, I also tend to think that if they were to legalize it, there wouldn't be a massive change. Like I said, anybody who wants to do it, can and does do it.
If people really feel like this is such a huge deal, they should move to California or Athens or Asheville, or somewhere like that, where the police pretty much don't care, within reason.