A User's Guide To Smoking Pot With Barack Obama

[robertb]

The black market is often a great example of supply and demand in its rawest form.

A true libertarian free market, for sure.

[Nathan Poe]

There being no truer example of an actually free enterprise system than the drug market, I guess.

You want freedom from government regulation, there you have it.

[robertb]

You want freedom from government regulation, there you have it.

Indeed. Sometimes I think people should get what they think that they want to find out if what they thought they wanted is really what they wanted.

I have a sneaking suspicion it really is not.

[rogue06]

You want freedom from government regulation, there you have it.

Government regulation still has a hand in there. Enforcement and seizures tend to drive prices up.

[Nathan Poe]

Government regulation still has a hand in there. Enforcement and seizures tend to drive prices up.

Sounds more like an issue of supply and demand to me.

[rogue06]

Sounds more like an issue of supply and demand to me.

Which might play some small role in a free market

[Nathan Poe]

Which might play some small role in a free market

Indeed -- the price is jacked up as a result of the amount of product that is lost in transit.

[rogue06]

Indeed -- the price is jacked up as a result of the amount of product that is lost in transit.

And to justify the risk

[Whag]

I'll never understand theists' paranoia about weed. Timothy Leary once said of psilocybin that it's the only drug that causes mental illness in people who don'ttake it. Judging from the conservative outcry about this plant's supposed evil, you can say the same thing about cannabis. It's hilarious how threatened people are by a plant, of all things.

[Conductor42]

Cannabis is addictive. I don't believe endorsing any addictive substance is in the best interest of a nations people. But perhaps you are right. Legalize the drug, make dealers register before they can sell it, and then one day execute all the dealers. That may stop it for a while.

Cannabis is as addictive as Jello Casserole.
Have you ever smoked it?
If not, please don't even try to make the case that it is addictive.