Well, seems that it comes down to legal v. criminalize and no other discussion...

That's too bad...

Education should play an important part in the discussion, too... Hey, I'm a pothead... I've also worked in a drug rehab program so I speak from some level of experience...

Some folks asy the pot is the "gateway drug"... Well, given the way things are today there is some trtuh to that in that pot smokers do have to rub elbows with folks who also peddle crack and horse...

If these folks didn't have these associations then they wouldn't really have much opportunity to experiement with harder drugs... Get the pusher outta the equation and more potheads would be perfectly happy smokin' their weed and that would be that...

But by driving potheads into a seedier world there are greater opportunties....

Back to education... Everyone knows that dumb "This is your brain" commercial, right??? Well, if we legalized drugs then we could have legitimate folks making public service commercials about the hazzards of crack and horse... I mean, I'd do one... It's go like this:

Guy playing geetar on a beach... beautiful woman... they smoke a joint... then THE VOICE: "Weed is cool... Needles ain't"...

I mean, folks gonna say that this is simplistic but it ain't simplistic at all... If we could have an open discussion about drugs then all the voices could be heard... Right now, kids only hear two voices: cops and pushers...

B~