Reply #100: Again, you can't read porn, masturbate, or get abortions in most bars & restaurants, either.

[Warren DeMontague]

I don't think you should be able to.

Does that mean I think they should be outlawed? Because you can't do them everywhere?

The drug war is idiotic. Yes. Let's end the drug war. Let's let, say, pot smokers buy a legal, regulated, and taxed product, and enjoy it in places, like the privacy of their own homes, or even in open public spaces. Most of the pot smokers I've known would be ecstatic if they could buy pot at the 7-11, and smoke it at home or outside on the sidewalk. Yet present the exact same situation to cigarette smokers, they act like they're being shipped off to Dachau. :eyes:

It's ridiculous. No one is telling you you can't buy and smoke the stuff (much less putting you in jail for it) they are regulating where you can do it. Not the same thing, not by a long shot.

As for "not much pay off in results"-- again, I have no idea how old you are. I am old enough to remember the way things used to be, when you couldn't go out for dinner (much less to a bar) or on an airplane without having to be stuck in choking clouds of smoke. No pay off in results? Bullshit. The laws make eminent good sense.