Also ... bad trips? It's not acid. You don't trip off weed. Jesus christ.

Again, your arguments are based on nothing more than short sighted assumption. I never once said I devoted ALL my energy to Cannabis legality, and I never once said it was the most important issue in my life. Far, far from it. You see by being ... well ... full of shit ... you are not exactly flying the flag high for the sobreity brigade.

I am not useless when I get high and it is not slowing me down. You clearly have no knowledge of both myself or the drug. You have dropped some of your arguments abruptly as you have gone along and the current hallmark of your posts seems to be to make assumptions about other peoples lives.

Like I said, full of shit. I'm probably going to bong some homegrown tonight, look back at this argument, laugh my ass off, and have a good time. And if that irks you, then all the better. This babys exuding the joy of life .

But I'm glad you dropped the idea that anyone who takes drugs is doing it to deal with a problem, and that I must think Cannabis legality is the most important issue in the world today. Well done .

As it happens I already have plenty of proof in the music I produce. I'm not saying I need weed as a creative aid, but I find when I sit at my synth rack with the laptop powered up, tracks flow out of me like crazy. I never said weed would help with deep metaphysical discussion. What you are doing is taking an extreme, absurd example and embellishing it to the point of riddicule.

Weed does NOT make me stupid. I smoked it throughout my last year of school and ended up getting very good grades. Four hours after smoking a joint I feel exactly the way I did before smoking a joint. Alcohol hangovers to me are far more debilitating. Coffee, to me, is far more debilitating. It gives me a horrible attention span and if I were to sit at my computer and make a track after a cup of coffee, I would be off looking up Google within a matter of minutes. You don't know me. You don't know all the pot smokers in the world. All of your arguments are based on laughably sweeping assumptions.

Also, how does it make me stupid? Everyone is different. Idiots will always be idiots and smoke every hour of every day and go about life being idiots. But for others, Cannabis can act as an aid to creativity, or simply a mild relaxant.

Also, yes I realize it does not agree with everyone, but statistically the war on the drug does more harm than all the combined possible fires, car accidents etc. It's just a FACT.

Also, the fact that it's something I believe in hardly automatically means I am neglecting other world concerns, or that I see Cannabis legality as being more of an important issue than food, for fuck sake.

I think YOU need to get real. Please don't you dare tell me why me or anyone else wants to get high, drunk, stoned of buzzed off a mug of coffee - a drug - in order to make it to lunchbreak without falling asleep.

Hey, it's sure as hell better than using church as a crutch .

People want to get high. It's an undeniable fact of life and an inherent human urge many of us feel. Think of a young toddler that spins around to make him or herself 'dizzy'. It's fine that you don't feel the need to, but many of us like it.

It's incredibly, incredibly degrading that you are labelling every pot smoker, beer drinker, and coffee guzzler in the world as someone who NEEDS to take drugs to deal with the stresses of life.

Speaking for myself, I lead an incredibly happy, productive, fulfilled life and as of now I can say with confidence that I have no problems at all going on either in my head or around me. I simply like getting stoned. It's fun. Just like some other people like to drink a few cans to have fun. It's not a necessity and that's a stone cold fact. You are WRONG.

That's a very narrow view of the situation. It's not just a 'right to get high'. It's a principal based on smashing the hypocrisy of allowing more dangerous drugs to be freely available. It's about freeing up hundreds of thousands of prison cells full of non violent offenders. It's about saving billions and making billions more on tax revenue that can be pumped into rehabilitation programmes, science, the education system, you name it.

It's about a lot, really, and I daresay you have much of a clue about any of it. Your suggestion that I should 'stop it now' is both absurd and highly patronising.

Altering ones neurochemistry should not be a right you have to earn. The war on drugs, particularly Cannabis, has done far more harm than good, and most scientific bodies agree and reccomend decriminalization.

Even if you don't like Cannabis it doesn't really factor into it. The law is simply doing more harm than good. It's not a silly little student niche for me, it's a serious issue.