:: View topic - Taken from 5/29/03 show: Marijuana De-Criminalization: "Drug Prohibition is exactly the same as alcohol prohibition. It would be nice if we didn't have to deal with drunks. Prohibiting alcohol would only increase the number of problems, however. The mafia increased tremendously under prohibition. One reason Japan thought that they could defeat us was that they thought we were all just a bunch of mobsters and drunks. I kid you not.
Look at porn on the internet or when vcr's first came out. People couldn't get enought of it. Gradually however it just became part of the scene. It's nothing we are proud of, but trying to outlaw something just to make people better doesn't work. It's called trying to legislate morality. Give it up.
You can say the older a civilization gets the more corrupt it becomes. There is probably something to that. Complexity has its downside. If you want to keep it simple become a piece of inanimate matter.
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If we can't do it with love in our hearts and a smile on our faces then we don't have any right to do it at all. We're supposed to be some kind of different.
Stephen Stills"