This is not an anti-marijuana rant. Intellectually, I'm hard pressed to delineate why drinking should be legal but smoking marijuana should not. When I teach a college course on Controversial Legal Issues, I usually find myself silently agreeing with the legalize pot students. But, here's the twist, as much as I abstractly can't see delineating the difference between legalizing booze and criminalizing pot, I can't help but be ardently against pot smoking.
This is in part due to my bias. I grew up in a time when athletes drank and burn-outs smoked pot. I never smoked pot and was never tempted to do. I also was a criminal prosecutor. But, neither is the real reason why I am so vehemently opposed to pot smoking. The real reason stems from seeing so many teens get lost in the fog of regularly smoking pot.
This is in part due to my bias. I grew up in a time when athletes drank and burn-outs smoked pot. I never smoked pot and was never tempted to do. I also was a criminal prosecutor. But, neither is the real reason why I am so vehemently opposed to pot smoking. The real reason stems from seeing so many teens get lost in the fog of regularly smoking pot.
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