Infant mortality rate was higher, some survived, but many more didn't. Infant mortality is still high in countries with poor access to modern healthcare services, and was also in the most developed countries until not too many decades ago.

I have a problem when people who are under the influence go out and interfere with non-intoxicated society.

That is not and never has been one of pot's effects. You're describing alcohol, not pot. Why not outlaw beer? Sorry, dude, but your stand is illogical, irrational, and ignorant.

I believe I've said this before, but I'll rephrase it. If my neighbor wants to get stoned at home and stay home, I don't care. Hell he can do heroin, coke, whatever he wants at home as long as he stays home. I don't care if he uses a combination of different recreational drugs as long as he stays home.

I have a problem when people who are under the influence go out and interfere with non-intoxicated society. If someone has too much to drink and goes out wandering around they can expect to be charged with drunk in public, if they are stupid enough to attempt to drive a car they get DUI. I want to see the same for all recreational drugs. At that point, we would truly be treating them all the same.

The Pro Pot Propaganda Pushers should support this if they really want pot treated the same as alcohol. Instead we have many people who want pot treated more like water than like alcohol.

I believe I have also stated before that what I want to see is a reliable and quantifiable test for when someone has had too much to be out in public. Again, this is what we do with alcohol - I want to see it for any recreational drug that we legalize for general consumption.

Coincidentally, I saw this JE this morning right after seeing a report on CBS's morning news program that said that marijuana is by far the least dangerous of all recreational drugs. They found the most dangerous was alcohol, followed by heroin, followed by cocaine. I did a quick search, it doesn't look like they've posted it to their web site.

I've found an incredible amount of misinformation about marijuana. This article says "Those who might remember pot from the 70s - the marijuana grown and sold in Colorado today is up to 10 times stronger."

The difference isn't strength of the pot, it's how its potency is measured and how pot is and was sold. They take the pot, grind up the entire bag and test it.

Today, pot is grown indoors so it has no seeds, and only the buds are sold. In the seventies, they put the whole plant; stems, seeds, leaves and all. Leaves are far less potent than buds, stems have very little THC and seeds have none at all, and the seeds are heavy. I saw pot in the '70s that the seeds were more than half the weight of the bag. So grinding up the whole bag would indicate that it's 10 times stronger, when stoners always threw the stems and seeds away and usually saved the bud for the weekend.

The best pot I ever smoked was in Thailand in 1973-4.

Now, even if pot wasn't the safest of all recreational drugs, even if it were the deadliest, how does your neighbor getting stoned affect you or society at large?

There's a chapter in a book that was required reading in a college history class in the late '70s that shows how incredibly moronic prohibition is. Alcohol and Al Capone

Look at Mexico and Columbia. Prohibition is purely stupidly evil.

True, you need no purpose. I don't care that you have none, but the lack of a purpose does make you look rather ridiculous.

True, but by never backing anything up you end up supporting the hypothesis that nothing you write comes with any sincerity at all

Considering how often you write replies to what I write - particularly since you reply to what I write without reading what I write - you can't make much of an argument for not caring.

You say that, but have never given any reason for me to believe it. I have asked you many times to name a candidate who you support, and not once have you ever named one for any race. You have repeatedly claimed to know better than I a candidate who would support what would be best for me, yet that person has never been given a name.

Frankly, I highly doubt you vote at all. I expect most likely you just jerk off to CSPAN on election day and then tell everyone else the day after how wrong they were for voting when they could have been pleasuring themselves at home all day instead.