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In reply to the discussion: Marijuana's march toward mainstream confounds feds [View all]NCcoast
(480 posts)I'm 53 years old. My freshman year in college was 1978 and I attended a small liberal arts college in New England. I would have been shocked to find that more than 10% of the student body at the time was not smoking marijuana. And that 10% was not the sort you really wanted to hang out with. Everyone was smoking marijuana in those days... EV-REY-ONE. Which means that damn near everyone in both houses of congress has smoked marijuana. Which means that everyone of them knows exactly how harmful it isn't. Like a friend of mine likes to say 'Everyone knows the only thing marijuana leads to is a pizza'.
I knew for certain in those days that by the time I reached the age I am now, marijuana would be legal. How could it not be? The entire population had tried it and knew exactly what it was about. The only way we would not have legalized it was if we turned out to be a nation of shameless hypocrites. Which, sadly, is exactly what we turned out to be. What a sad thing that is to discover about a country that was once so progressive and so great.