Ah, yes, how foolish it all is...

I will quote Joan Baez, who once said (back in the glorious 60's) "It's silly to make marijuana illegal...of course, it's silly to smoke it too."

That's exactly how I feel about it. To smoke any substance is silly. Pot smoke stinks, it dries out your throat, and it definitely does not help you play music better. It's bad for your lungs and it makes your eyes hurt too.

Every young generation does idiotic and basically innocuous things in their search for experience and identity. Some pierce their bodies with multiple metal objects, some get tattoos, some adopt hairstyles that would frighten a mandrill, some smoke pot, some drink and suffer a miserable hangover the next day. Most of them manage to survive these practices in the long run, although alcohol ends quite a few lives prematurely, as do cigarettes. Pot doesn't end lives, it just trivializes them.

Silly, silly, silly...

- LH