Good point, Mario. Chocolate is HIGHLY addictive, mind-altering, and it rots your teeth! The reason marijuana is illegal is:

1. you can easily create it in the privacy of your own home or garden...thus it is not possible to monopolize it through a big, profitable industry, package it, and sell it for 500 times what it's worth to people who can't figure out how to manufacture it themselves!!! This is not the case with chocolate, liquor, or tobacco...

2. Social prejudice. It was originally the drug of the "lower classes"...hispanics, blacks, and jazz musicians...society's rejects in the view of the high and mighty...therefore it was stigmatized as a "bad drug". Tobacco, alcohol, and chocolate on the other hand belong to "decent" society...in fact are quite upper class.

GUEST - And what kind of fool would I have to be to spend $200 to $500...just for a brief high???? You gotta be kidding. Money isn't so easy to get that I'm going to "blow" it in that fashion, I can assure you. Besides, the other people who were smoking that stuff that I found so underwhelming thought it was first-class stuff! And, hell, they were far more experienced at it than I was. I think the whole thing is a tempest in a tea pot. If it was legal, nobody would think it was a big deal anymore. If you made coffee illegal, people would soon be willing to pay almost ANYTHING for it, and MAN would they ever get high! It's asinine to make any natural substance illegal for people to use if they want to use it, and it arises out of a self-righteous Christian religious heritage which is as hypocritical as it is impractical. They used to outlaw dancing and tea drinking too, you know...led straight to Satan, they said.

- LH