Bruce wrote:
>
> Pot is like alcohol. Big Brother shouldn't ban it. Not even in
> the land of the not so free.

My only disagee is I think alcohol is worse than pot as far as
how messed up you can get. But the USA banned alcohol almost 100
years ago and all they did was create an entire new criminal
class. Once legalized, most of the illegal gangster stuff died
out. My mom went back to being a little girl again. Same
should be with pot. It's a baby drug, imo. No worse than having a
few beers.

In the early 1990's, there was a small article in my newspaper.
Some guy right here in Virginia Beach was stopped and he had 2.5
ounces of pot on him. That amount not only got him charged for
possession but also with "intent to sell." He was sentenced to
30 years in the state prison for being some evil drug dealer.

Virginia also has/had a no parole policy.
That poor fellow might even still be in prison. unbelievable.