While I don't personally smoke pot (or anything else--I had asthma in my teens, and smoke disagrees with me; I can't even be in the same room with cigarette smoke), I see where they're coming from on the "civil disobedience" thing. The history of how marijuana (which I may be spelling wrong) became illegal is disturbing at best, and features a lot of big-company coersion (Dupont) and racist slurs. The current use of marijuana laws to rope in "minor criminals" for possession and frighten them into testifying appals me, both for its disrespectful treatment of those people and the damage it does to the ideals of our justice system. I'm not happy that Canadian police work often resorts to intimidation and "eyewitness" testimony from semi-stoned vulnerable street people; I would infinitely prefer Canada's courts to rely on physical evidence.
So I personally do support decriminalization, although I don't use pot and have actually had the experience of being the only completely sober person at a rally. Yes, I know: I'm no fun. Go me. :)
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ninetydegrees
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on 2005-10-22 02:58 pm (UTC)So I personally do support decriminalization, although I don't use pot and have actually had the experience of being the only completely sober person at a rally. Yes, I know: I'm no fun. Go me. :)