It's of no vital importance whether or not people smoke pot, in my opinion, as long as they don't smoke it too much. That's why I laughed at my peers in the early 70's...and I laughed at the establishment...I laughed at both of them for taking the whole damn thing so seriously! It's a tempest in a tea pot, as they say. You're better off without it, in my opinion, but there are about 500 more pressing issues one could worry about on the path to better health.

Martin, I don't get the impression Amos is on the "fringes" of society at all. I know I am. ;-) But I was on the fringes of the hippy movement too, because I didn't smoke anything! I'm always on the fringes of everything, it's just my nature. I've never seen a status quo yet that I felt totally comfortable with for very long. I think human beings are strange, and their social ideas are stranger still. They're almost all a little bit crazy. Most of them take their usual "scene" for granted. I don't. The idiocies of the hippy movement were about as plain to me as the idiocies of the establishment they were protesting against.

Then too, I can see the good points it both of them.

I'm a spirit. I'm just here temporarily, checking out a very, very peculiar society in which I have always felt a bit out of place.