I've smoked enough pot to know it's a very mild drug, nothing compared to alcohol, and less addictive than video games, or internet forums. I balked at the price and the whole hassle of it a long time ago, 5 bucks a full unweighed bag, about five fingers, seemed about right. That was a while ago. Now it's an overpriced commercial culture much like any other, the illegality is a great marketing tool, especially to the young. Much the way rich idiots buy persian rugs they don't even like in a fantasy of themselves as cultured aristocrats, young people buy pot in a fantasy of themselves as outlaws. Both things are about as silly. Old persian rugs are things people made themsemselves for their own houses, and if you don't understand that, nothing you ever learn or know about them will ever make you understand them, really. And pot should be dirt cheap, a poor business prospect, just the little buzz it is, not an overwrought marketing culture.
   But what gets me rattled about it is how people defend the way things are, just because they are that way. It's so unprincipled, unthinking, careless, depressing, dumb. If peanut butter were illegal some certain mentality of person would "feel" certain that it should be, and be glad to feel superior to all those low-life nut-heads. I wish I got some satisfaction, got some sense of superiority from people who can't think of the difference between "reality", and what's reified, but it just depresses the living crap out of me.