[Jeff Higgins]

We can't save people from themselves, Jim, no matter how many behavior-specific laws we try to pass. These folks are not irresponsible because they use drugs; it's the other way around. Understanding that distinction is key to understanding the whole argument.

I could give a ***** if people smoke in public. I'm against laws regulating that behavior as well. I don't smoke pot, so it has never been anissue around my kids.

It seems as though you have to reach just a bit, and assign all kinds of unsavory attributes to people you don't know in order to make those people appear unreasonable. It looks like you are not able to stay on point and provide a reasonable argument against legalization (and diverting money into treatment rather than punishment), so you go after the person rather than the idea.

The unreasonable position here is to keep pouring money down the same rat hole that has simply not worked. It's time to try something else. Try addressing that, rather than making your spurious claims that we all must be smoking pot in front of, and neglecting our kids. Your bad experiences and lifetime fuch-ups are not necessarily shared by all.