"It should be kept low key and private, not glamorized or promoted."

Agreed! People who smoke pot are NOT any cooler or smarter than anyone else, and if they think they are then they're never gotten beyond a silly teenage mentality. There was a lot of peer pressure among teens and early-20's people when I was growing up to do the following things to prove you were cool and someone to be included in the respect of the peer group. They were:

drink alcohol
smoke cigarettes
smoke pot
wear the "cool" clothing of the time
take other recreational drugs
use certain swear words casually and frequently
and make sure NOT to still be a virgin!!! (or at least, for God's sake, make sure nobody knows that you are still a virgin...if you are...)

All these things were psychological pressures brought down upon every young person, particularly young males, by the other young people around them. It's the herd mentality. You were deemed a "loser" or a "nerd" if you didn't share in these various acting-out types of youth conformity.

Believe me, I know! ;-) I didn't smoke cigarettes or pot, I didn't take recreational drugs, I barely drank at all, and as for the rest...well...enough said! ;-) Yes, and I was picked on some by various pretentious assholes and pests who delighted in doing all those things and carried it like a badge of pride. They were glamorizing and promoting a lot of foolish behaviour.

I was a nonconformist to that sort of thing then and I still am now. And it has served me well, cos I look 10 or 15 or even 20 years younger now than most of the people I grew up with.

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"Some things are more harmful than others, They should be sorted out into categories. Some controlled to different degrees and some not.

DO you give coffee to a baby? How about booze, pot or cigarettes?"

Excellent points, Sawzaw, and I agree. No, I sure wouldn't give any of those things to a baby or a younger child. I quit drinking coffee myself about 15 years ago, because I felt it was bad for my health. I do drink it very occasionally as a headache preventative...if I can feel the early stages of a migraine coming on. A single cup of coffee and an aspirin will usually work well to stop that headache from developing further. This might happen once a month on average, usually when the barometer goes really low, and that's the only time I will drink coffee.