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Oooh!  Good idea!  Let's make the taxpayers grab the bill so that everyone can unnecisarilly get high!  Don't treat the United States government like a big free medicine cabinet so that a small group of people can get stoned on my dime.  I don't think so.

My friend used to live in Miami, and she had her house broken into all the time by drug addicts, and they way you could tell was that they only took her VCR.  Not enough to buy anything big; just one hit of heroine or cocaine.  It's pretty sad. 

And I should have gone and seen "Chasing Columbine"(?) that independent film about why Americans are so obscessed with guns.  I can't explain why we have more gun deaths.  I guess its because we are at heart a very rural backwoods people.

As I've mentioned before, people have gotten accustomed to the free availability of tobacco over the 400 years we as Americans have had it.  If we want to make sure that hemp is grown for the right purposes, we need to make sure that people get used to its availability before we let everyone dive in.

And we SHOULDN'T let people do their own hemp "research".  It should be done by the government, or in close coordination with government contracted biomedical firms.

We need to regulate industry very heavily if we let hemp become privatized.  We can save all of that by keeping hemp in the hands of the government.  I think only government agencies should grow hemp for the first 20 years, then slowly switch control over to a very heavily regulated private industry.

I would never let hemp become legal to be grown by the public.  It's too risky.

I think we should try to find a THC-void version of hemp.  Then we could let anyone grow it.

So you want to legalize HEROINE now?!  Those are the addicts that scare me.  I have to admit that most of my marijuana-enthusiast friends are pretty mellow when they do it, but heroine is a horse of a different color.

Those are people that will do desperate things to feed their addiction, and as a non-user I don't want to be in their path if it becomes legal.  They'll find some way to pay for it, legal or illegal, most likely illegal.

If we legalize hemp, I think it should me nationalized for the first 20 years, and then slowly stepped down to privatized after that.

Smart ass...

I can't think of many golf communities that would host a wanted terrorist.  Maybe some golf resort down in Pheonix would give him a safe haven.  I suppose his hatred of western ways won't let him sip a pina colada on the beaches of Jamaica, either!

Let's not argue about the electoral college anymore.  I'm sure that people in population centers (such as yourself, soph) favor the popular vote, and people in rural areas (like me) favor the electoral college.

I've seen the little insect crawlers, and I have to admit they're pretty cool for a $250,000 set of LEGOs.  Soph and I were talking about using a crawler for construction purposes, which would be a slow cumbersome beast.

And I wouldn't trust a Berkley student as far as I could throw one...   

Okay.  So why do you want marijuana legalized?

My main fear is that out of shock and excitement, every teenager in America would go out and get a few joints, and get high.  I am worried that unless we have a centralized industry we can trust to produce pot, the dealers will get kids to try to move onto heavier stuff.

Prove me wrong, you sacred stranger Josh.

I can't watch streaming video.  I'm on a 28.8k copper wire connection out in the mountains on a P75 machine.

What did the video say, exactly?

And I'm still not clear on when the government banned its use.  When was the first law passed banning marijuana use in these United States?

No, almost every cop I've ever talked to has told us that drugs are a downward spiral.  I don't even want to experiment when I already know the answer.

Didn't they make you watch those gruesome videos about the trackster who died at 25 because he got cancer in his mouth?  The pus-filled white cavity in his gums?  The skoal can they hid under the fuse box?  Don't you remember that Soph?!

And when did the government tell me oil was clean?  You just have to walk through the orange groves of southern California on a cold day to see that.

I think you're referring to the OIL COMPANY sponsored ads about how an oil heater is more EFFICIENT.  Nobody ever said it burns cleaner...

Why should I not trust a police officer?  Someone who's always there to help, and sees these types of addicts all the time.  Why experiment when someone you trusts tells you the answer?

And why would the government ban marijuana?  Do you think they just "wanted to make it hard on the common man, trying to escape his problems"?  No.  If the government says its bad for you, I find it hard not to trust them.

Josh, if we could use hemp for only fuels, textiles, etc., those companies would have jumped on the hemp research wagon a long time ago.  I doubt that if it was the real "wonder material" they would have just let it pass them by.  And if they really wanted hemp, they'd lobby the government to LEGALIZE pot, not keep it illegal like they're doing.

I don't think I will.  I'm enjoying the CHRISTmas season too much.