Hypocrisy is our creed

August 1, 2008 | Vetting explained

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Look, I don't drink nor do I smoke. I'm turning 46, and I

never have (although I sometimes wish I did

). But to allow cigarettes and alcohol to be legal while marijuana

is not is simply hypocrisy.

The rhetoric being spouted by the DEA with regard to the

"evils" of marijuana are something straight out of the 1950's. It

makes them look stupid and out of touch, and you have to be

somewhere over 70 years old for it to have any real meaning for

you. I recall others making similar warnings about alcohol (anybody

remember a little thing called Prohibition?), and, dear me, it's

still around.

How many people die each year from cigarette smoke? How many

people each year are killed by drunk drivers? Please, can we grow up, at least just a little? Marijuana is

nothing more than the combination of cigarettes and alcohol, and if

those drugs are legal, every rational argument says marijuana

should be as well. Therefore, any arguments

against legalizing marijuana are nothing more than bullet

points on somebody's hidden agenda.

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Time to legalize pot?

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