Legalize

For what it's worth.. I really don't like the stuff, and haven't smoked in eons. Pot has different effects on people I think, and all it did to me was make me paranoid and wish the buzz would just go away. Other people seem to like it though.. a whole lot of them..

For the fourth year in a row, U.S. marijuana arrests set an all-time record in 2006, according to the just-released FBI Uniform Crime Reports. Marijuana arrests totaled 829,627, an increase from 786,545 in 2005. Similar to previous years, 738,916 or 89 percent were for possession, not sale or manufacture, and marijuana possession arrests again exceeded arrests for all violent crimes combined.

I'm not sure anyone could make a rational case why it should be illegal. Its effects are less toxic than alcohol. Still, can you imagine how much tax money it costs in the arrest and prosecution of 829,627 marijuana cases? Until somebody can explain the difference between pot and booze, it's an extreme hypocrisy to hassel people like that.

But then, I'm just a crazy civil libertarian when it comes to people doing what they want to do. I figure it's none of my business what somebody else does.