That's true, Bobert, it's in overdoing things or doing them at the wrong time or in the wrong way that people get into trouble. There's a safe way and an unsafe way to deal with almost anything one could care to mention. Most of the people I knew used pot in a safe manner. Many of them did not use alcohol in a safe manner.

As for cigarettes, my sympathy fails when it comes to that. I don't regard them as "safe" under any circumstance, but I still would not make it illegal to smoke them outdoors or in privacy, because it's up to the user to make his own decision about that, not up to me to make his decision for him.

Besides, making tobacco illegal would result in an illegal drug trade that would make today's drug wars look mild in comparison (just like happened with alcohol during prohibition).