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Kremi - what Imma saying is that I never noticed any better, more cautious or more polite drivers while driving in Germany. So, ya can't attribute their much higher speed limits to allegedly better educated drivers. Them are less intimidated by their cops than we are by ours.

They're less intimidated? Yet they run from the cops and get away? I am still very confused. I'm sure you have a good point some where in there, you're just not getting it across to me.

Less intimidated = got the balls to run. I am more intimidated = will never ever think about running from cops.

Cops around here are corrupt as heck, drugs, drinking,etc. But I'm less intimidated, why you may ask? What if your friends with the cops.... See, not everyone loses when the cops aren't good. I would never speed on the autobahn parts that have a speed limit, why? Because the cameras catch your plate. I speed daily on my roads, why? Because I get there faster and no cameras, only so many cops in the area and I've been lucky enough to judge when/where/how much to speed.

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there are ups and downs to legalizing it. i think the only reason they havent legalized it in the first place is cause the government cant tax the illegal part of the "marijuana market" it if it was legal. look at tobacoo. the government makes tons of cash from taxing tobacoo so they keep it in stores. i think whatever people want to do to there body's is there own business its there own choice to get high. no one ever forced me to get high, i did it cause i wanted to. the only thing that concerns me and has always concerned me about any type of drugs or alcahol is the lack of responsibility. we all know people are going to do stupid things while drunk or high. i honestly think cigarettes should be banned. i work ina hospital and i see patients sick as hell that cant wait to go outside for a smoke. you know its bad when doctors that tell you its bad are smoking.

This thread is a lot more interesting than I thought. And pretty polite too considering the contentious subject.

While I feel sorry for those who lost their lives or screwed their lives up while under the influence of drugs, I think it's fair to mention that NO ONE forced you to take these drugs other than yourself. Government intervention in the form of banning/not banning substances based on the fact that people do not seem to have any personal responsibility is poor government.

You can overindulge with ANYTHING! I could ruin my college education by playing videogames or partying 24/7, but I don't. So should I be deprived of the freedom of those activities because some people choose to not care about their grades?

This may sound harsh, but does 'survival of the fittest' ring a bell?

Ok, puff away then, play away, party 24/7 then, I don't care. Your consquences are something you'd would have to be responsible for. This was not what I was ever really saying (although I did think it was sad to watch my friends 'overindulge'). I was only saying that the Government doesn't want this to everr become a widespread problem, just as they wouldn't want a plague to strike over the land and kill our strength as a country. That is their only main concern, is the future of our power. And pot may or may not ever be that problem, but anthrax may or may not ever be a problem for us either, but we still must take the precautions now, because we can't undo anything afterwords when it might be too late. In the future, there is no edit: 'undo' button on our country for our actions from now (like with Photoshop). Therefore, I feel the government has a warranted concern to keep it illegal now. Then the under-the-table crowd can still just do it how their doing it now. Plus this way, the government can still make money off of weed, from all the fines issued, and pot they confiscate, they can (and probably do) resell it undercover, or to other countries. Sounds twisted, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out thet that's what they do with it?