from the article..."no state has attempted to regulate and tax the herb before"

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/pot-legaliza...

ive more than proven in my life that my kids are my first priority. i smoke pot. that has NOTHING to do with me as a parent. i wish you knew just how many parents do exactly what i do. i wish those parents didnt have to fear ignorant stereotypes and felt ok telling you they smoke marijuana...

also BB...ive met several real kewl people from blogging on the gazette. i just met and smoked w one last nite. i would love to meet you, shake your hand and show you my home. if then, you still think im a bad parent your opinion would be acceptable...until then its just uninformed ignorant stereotype. email me and lets set up a meet so you can come back on here and tell everyone how wrong you are...

i almost missed it...

'and the rest of the illegal drugs this will lead to'...

ughh really?? the harder drugs ive done, and ive done most, were usually because i was drunk. maybe we should ban alcohol?? the gateway theory has been debunked by most rational thinking adults.

sarahb they are also on their way to having enough signatures for a vote on LEGAL marijuana next fall in the state of california

bellagiobound: why cant you ask me questions like that to begin with, rather than saying my kids are 'freebasing'. if my kids follow my example and smoke pot some day thats a FAR cry from freebasing. ill call names on here but to insult someones kids is beyond ignorant and quite honestly i think you need to man up and apologize.

to answer your post...i dont sit around getting high all the time. my kids have never seen me smoke. i dont smoke around my kids, and wont until its legal. my kids have never seen me drink a beer or smoke a cig, or at least they dont remember. i moved my life and career to be next to my kids. i have never missed a support pmt, while still having to fill my fridge. i coach baseball, we camp like mad, we average about 10 brewer games a summer, oh, i have not had cable or antenae tv in my house for 4 years. we visit the library once every other week or so.we do all the same things most responsible parents do....so please, explain to me how smoking pot makes me a bad parent??

The fact that most of them are operation under the guise of a medicinal dispensary. They are simply trying to enforce what they enacted. Right now its just everyone running rampant getting notes from doctors handing them out like lotto tickets, and where there's money to be made....I mean, there's basically a legal loophole for selling weed and its leading to en exploitation of a product not seen in California since the gold rush.

"It's more about the severity of the infraction and its social consequences. If you drive 1 mile over the speed limit, you could receive a citation, but not be arrested for possessing a controlled substance"
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As I suspected it is not about breaking the law, it is about breaking a specific law.

I agree some parents put themselves and their children in situations that are less than ideal; these are also subjective conditions based on personal ideals.

Either way people that drive one mile over the speed limit are not all bad parents, the same as those that choose to treat their own bodies the way they want.

Right. Hey whatever you want to pick and choose to make work for your ideal living environment, right?

Bellagio_Bound have you ever driven one mile above the speed limit with your kids in the car? Have you ever rolled through a stop sign without the wheels coming to a complete stop before moving again with your kids in the car? Both of these are illegal.

What makes you think that your kids didn't witness this illegal activity and think that it is ok? I am seriously worried about children that grow up in this type of environment...

I suspect your stance is more over what law is broken and not about a law broken.

JAG: again, no one is talking about driving high. you keep harping on that and no one wants that either. we can all agree on that.

if pot by itself is not bad, then why is it illegal for us to smoke at home??

and im the first to admit that i can sling the names around and act like a 12 year old as much as the next blogger. have you EVER seen me say you should do this, or you should not do that with your personal life?? no. thats what uncle sam does to us every day, and that is a point for some reason you cant grasp. i assume RAF is not a pot smoker, but his point is that he thinks uncle sam has no business telling people what to do to themselves. now, again im agreeing with you, if someone gets high and drives punish them to the full extent of the law...same as you would do for alcohol...but that brings me back to my question...why is it illegal for me to smoke in my house?? why must we be forced to support that criminal network billnewbie rants about??

ill repeat my other question...coke can be prescribed by a dr and pot cant. do you agree that i may have a valid point as to the hypocrisy of the current laws??

i chuckled at the first couple posts here, yours included, but even you have to agree bellagiobound stepped way across the line referencing my kids 'freebasing', yes??

thekid says: "good post RAF. i dont understand the holier than thou thinking they need to tell others what to do." Maybe you should read some of the posts you put on the blogs ... you jump all over anti legal pot bloggers all the time, and how many times have you "misspelled" my name when you don't like something I say? yeah you act like an adlut don't you. You need to get off that crutch you lean on "medical pot" .... and get into the real world, you may see things you haven't seen in a long long time. JMO

I will add that I disagree 100% on pot, drugs or drinking being a victimless crime, to do so is just to burying your head in the sand. I have seen first hand victims of both drugs and drinking, you can spin it anyway you wand but there are victims, direct, non direct, physical, emotional .... all are victims.

RAF: I don't care if you are eating food, picking your nose or doing drugs, if behind the wheel and it distracts you DON'T DO IT ... or don't get behind the wheel in the first place but you know some moron will, who cares what the reason. thekid: You have never heard me say pot by it's self was bad and I say the same about hand guns and it's laws but you get some dumb moron behind either and I think we both knows what COULD happen ... and has.

fyi justaguy: cocaine can be prescribed by a dr. its a schedule II narcotic which means its not as harmful as marijuana...a schedule I narcotic.

http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/scheduli...

seriously JAG...do you agree with that scheduling or is there any chance i may have a point and that marijuana isnt as bad as they say??

bellagiobound: did you really say something about my kids and freebasing?? simply because i believe an adult should have the right to smoke pot?? that is the single dumbest thing i have ever seen anyone post here. you can attack me all you want but to attack my kids?? juvenile. irresponsible. idiotic. EVIL. i dont have enough words to describe how stupid that comment was. any one who agrees with me that adults should have the right to smoke pot would NEVER say anything like that about your kids. imagine if karma had your own kid sitting somewhere gettin tuned up on that junk right now...

justaguy, do you know that accidents not involving drugs or alcohol happen more than with drugs or alcohol? People have been in fatal accidents because someone was distracting eating fast food, yet this is legal. Not trying to be antagonistic, but justifying a law because people do dumb things while on legal drugs (alcohol/prescription meds) is hardly a good reason for this law; people also do dumb things while not on drugs...but they drive anyway.

Life is nothing but choices and risk. You perform risk analysis everyday of your life; choosing not to drive on the wrong side of the road is one.

Just because it makes you feel better does not make it a good law.

good post RAF. i dont understand the holier than thou thinking they need to tell others what to do.

thanx frogger. this guy was selling crack cocaine. any of you comparing that to someone smoking pot is merely highlighting your ignorance, and trust me...you needed no help.

mr newbie...will you please tell me how and who is regulating the drug in this story??

RAF: You really think if those drugs you talk about being legal the users would stay in their houses to use them? like that will happen. Don't we have enough troubles with all the drunk drivers killing innocent people? Sorry but i'll disagree with you, keep those "govenment" laws in place, we will be safer keeping the users off MY "our" streets.

RetiredAirForce, I agree, drugs are on the street because people demand them. They demand them so much that they will get them from any source no matter how violent and no matter if there is a law against it since that they have no respect for the law, that law. As I've said before, they should get the law changed if they can but until they do, they should obey the law. And stop buying drugs from these murderous gangs whom they are funding and thereby enabling the evil that they do.

Bill, I disagree. The reason drugs are on the street is because of demand; people want them.

I am strictly against governments role in protecting people from themselves. Laws in place that protect you from people who choose to use alcohol/drugs/narcotics (prescription or not), like DUI [if enforced], are examples of responsible government.

Our society has gotten to far from personal responsibility with parents teaching right from wrong and moved toward "it takes a village"; which deflects responsibility toward others and the nanny state.

We have no laws to keep people from climbing a tree and jumping, which will cause them harm; yet, the government has a law to keep people from sitting in their home and doing a personal choice...very sad.

Come on now- Kid only advocates pot.

These drugs are regulated. That's what make possession of them and commerce in them illegal. The reason they are on the streets is that drug users have no respect for the law and are willing to pay murderous drug gangs to provide them with these products. None of these drug users seem to care about all the people who suffer at the hands of the gangs that supply these drugs. They refuse any responsibility for the violence that the gangs commit and get quite upset when that's pointed out to them. Apparently, as long as the drugs are good and the price isn't too high, when can they get their next delivery seems to be all the drug users want to know.

There are many benefits of drugs, even the terrible "recreational" drugs. They just aren't very beneficial if you're only taking them for recreation! ;) LSD,Ecstasy,Heroin...thet all have medicinal value,that's why they should be regulated and taken off the streets.
Good Job JPD.

One more one out of work

No it should be used for medical reasons only ... (even more sarcasm)

They should make this drug legal. This is a victimless crime. Who does he hurt when he takes cocaine? I know Presidents who have admitted to taking cocaine and many other very smart prominent people....(sarcasm).