About weed.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Well, a couple things on that.

One, my old man died of lung cancer. Joe Camel killed him, flat out.

The group of friends I had in high school, everyone except me and two other dudes became cigarette smokers. The difference? The 3 of us were too busy smoking weed to smoke anything else. I was always thankful for that, because I know I would have had one hell of a time stopping smoking- cigarettes.

I've seen people struggle to kick nicotine addiction. Stopping weed, in my experience, is a relative piece of cake. But neither should be illegal for consenting adults if they so choose to indulge.

I do, however, arch an eyebrow when cigarette smokers go on about how they're being oppressed while pot is being legalized. Fact is, you can buy cigarettes at any 7-11 in the country. No one has ever spent a night in jail - or 6 months in one - for a pack of marlboros, at least not in this country.

I do think it's legitimate to regulate where people can smoke, publicly, and that applies to weed as well as cigarettes.