It’s not a bad article — he lists the health benefits of marijuana as well as the ricks associated with it. This is good stuff for people to know. My objection is that he encourages people to vote against more liberal marijuana laws based on the fact that marijuana has risks associated with it.

That’s not the criterion we use for making policy! There are all sorts of legal things with risks associated with them. Millions of ‘em. Gupta, if you want to give medical advice, fine. But it is insane to base your opinion on matters of policy, liberty and law solely on a medical opinion.

Booze is legal and prohibiting it was a disaster. It is completely wrong to prohibit marijuana for the exact same reasons and the minor medical risks of marijuana certainly do not trump these other more important arguments.

Except you can’t. Our government in their extreme wisdom spends a lot of money and a lot of effort making sure we can’t find certain substances that make us feel good. We are talking about people who would deny things to cancer patients in extreme pain and discomfort. They, including Governor Tim “Dumbass” Pawlenty, are more concerned about people abusing drugs than they are about relieving the suffering of people who are dying.

I’m not dying, thank God. I’m just pissed off that I feel like shit and that my doctor has a pill that would make me feel better and he won’t give it to me.

What I get addicted to, if I get addicted to it, is no one’s business but my own. Lord knows that millions of you are addicted to alcohol. The philosophical disconnect is gigantic. Alcohol, the most damaging drug known to man and an everyday killer can be safely and conveniently purchased. But if you want some pot or a Percoset, you have to go to the black market.

I propose we decriminalize every drug known to man. If people get into trouble, so what? People get into trouble all the time with all sorts of things. Are you my mom? No, you are not.

The DEA, the ATF, the FDA and my doctor are all idiots and I’m sick of it. And I’m sick of this cold.