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Good grief, what you missed was the sarcasm dripping from my voice.

The war on drugs has not been totally ineffective, as you put it.

But, I’m going to get to the point. What is it with having to be drugged, drunk, or stoned?

Is your life (and yes, I’m asking you since I’m not doing a poll here) that damn sorry? You’ve got too much pain?

Get over yourself Buttercup. Life is pain, anyone who says different is selling something.

I work my ass off, I’ve defended my Country, I’ve buried people and pets who mean the WORLD to me, and I don’t drink, I don’t do drugs, and I’VE SURVIVED!

If you or anyone else want to live your life in a friggin’ fog do it! The more drugs people who demand drugs be made legal do, the less will be around.

But, until smoking DOPE is legal, it’s not legal. That plant you are so fond of is a illegal DRUG! Just like Heroin, AND cocaine are illegal and both come from innocent little plants.

It's a common tactic of nanny-staters to accuse anyone who doesn't support prohibition of being a drunk, druggie, or pothead. So normally I wouldn't respond to such a stupid argument, but if you must know, the only drugs I enjoy are Jamaican lager beer and caffeine, preferably administered through iced tea.

My suggestion is for you to get over YOURSELF and stop trying to use the government to micromanage peoples' lives. It's ineffective, unconstitutional, and has been (yes) a total, 100%, complete failure. Narcotics are available to anyone in every town on every street in the United States to someone wants them. It has done nothing to clamp down on access, supply, or rates of addiction.

When I look at the border a few hundred miles south of here, I know that the reason death and destruction has turned the region into a warzone with 40,000 dead in the past few years is because of the "War on Drugs". It has turned the cartels into violent political powers who run entire regions. It has given the federal government an excuse to pry itself further into policing people's lives and finances, ,wasted a trillion dollars in the process, and has in many cases shredded the Fourth Amendment along the way.

Your state can legislate until the Puritans are content.

But the national War on Drugs needs to end, and no one who seriously follows and educates themselves on the issue thinks marijuana should still be illegal. There are zero reasons to criminalize marijuana that cannot also be applied to alcohol.