...it's easier to hide in the light than in the darkness.

I'll be growing a truckload of it at my house and selling it to people that don't know how to grow their own.

Like tomatoes.

We have a winner.

Incorrect.

There is an enormous amount of taxpayer money spent on this "fight." There are billions of good reasons to make pot just as legal as other potentially harmful substances like alcohol and cigarettes.

If by "citizens" you mean large corporate interests, then I suppose you may be right.

I call bullshit on that. I'm sure the shit that surfer pulled out of his surfboard in Rainbow Bridge was more potent than anything I've ever smoked.

Horse. Shit.

Tell it to Abraham Lincoln.

300,000 visits to the ER for what?? I've been pretty high at times in my life, but I've never considered the ER a necessary option.

What are these people doing, smoking a bowl and then using a chainsaw or something?

Thanks for the anecdotes.

Yeah...totally disingenuous.

Not only that, but the claim is that "well, it's not good for you, so we shouldn't be legalizing it.

But there are other, legal drugs that aren't particularly good for you that are legal. The question is whether or not it's worth the cost to pursue the ridiculous avenue of outlawing a weed that can be smoked with relatively harmless impact and with, I'd assert, medicinal value for some.

The response letter, from a former chief of police, no less, was a joke, and if it was meant to be the final word from the Obama administration, it can kiss my ass instead of asking for my vote.

Visible spectrum, or all light?

...creates reality. I like it.

"Explanation: We're doing what we've been instructed to do by Big Money interests in government for the last 30 years."

That's because Apple, at that time, was run by the kind of people that would fire Steve Jobs.

"You don't give them enough credit and your apparent fear of them being so potentially bad is rather unkind and frankly I think unmerited."

Horseshit.

I live in a town with a large Air Force Base and have had several former friends do tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. I say "former friends" because when they got back, they were unrecognizable from a personality perspective. Distant, scary, intense. These were people without a lot of options, largely, in the first place and when they're not deployed, even the AF guys around town are often insufferable assholes.

When 100,000 of these guys get back, a solid percentage of them are going to be ticking time-bombs of insanity. We're going to have big problems on our hands, I fear.