Once again and again... I have previously pointed out that people would still be legally responsible for endangering or hurting others while drunk or high. The situation with marijuana would be the same as it now is with alcohol; drinking is legal but drunk driving is not. If we had not repealed prohibition, we would still suffer all the harm we suffer from drunk driving and excessive alcohol use that we suffer now. But we would also suffer the additional harm from the extra growth in organized crime that prohibition would have fueled. Would you anti repeal people at least remember what has been previously pointed out and stop arguing in circles? I strongly question the hype about the allegedly shrunken brains from marijuana use since marijuana is a herb that has been safely used throughout the 5000 years of recorded history. There is good reason to think that marijuana smoke, like tobacco smoke, is carcinogenic. But as with alcohol prohibition, the ill health effects of marijuana smoking would be no greater than they now are if marijuana prohibition were ended. You neither can succeed in using the law to force people to act in the best interests of their health, nor should you. Biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dorothy Parker recount the tremendous damage people succeeded in doing to their health with excessive alcohol use during prohibition. Even if I believed in a God, I would see no reason to think that She or He put me here to supervise the rest of you, and I see no evidence that any of you have been put here for that reason either. Robert Halfhill Loring Park
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