When I was in high school (1975) they showed Reefer Madness on the last day of school in the auditorium. Can you believe it? I think they thought maybe we wouldn't skip school if they did! LOL! Having an "open campus," we went out and toked up before the flick, naturally. After the movie, we jumped in our cars and went to the beach! But not before we stopped at my friend's for some pot brownies, which my friend's mom made with her own home grown stuff. Cross my heart, true story. Those were the days!
After what I see with alcohol and meth, I find it hard to get worked up about pot. Personally, I'm with South. Legalize it. I know some hardazz alkies who switched to pot and are now functioning. Sorry they can't go through life clean, but it is definitely the lesser of two evils, imo. With my students, the potheads are a little lazy, but sane and lovable. The methheads are bonkers and dangerous and the alkies are on the road to destruction, just more slowly. I have never seen a violent pothead. Never.
Eve