[gdani]

Efforts to legalize the substance in the mid-1970s failed.

I think the article means - efforts to RE-legalize it.

It was once legal. Until people started getting the vapors about the possibilities of negro jazz musicians having relations with white women under the influence of the demon weed.

[sphinx]

It was once legal. Until people started getting the vapors about the possibilities of negro jazz musicians having relations with white women under the influence of the demon weed.

When it was legal, we didn't have a cradle to grave welfare state that supports a permanent underclass at a standard of living comparable to a 1970's middle-class lifestyle.

I understand that many pot smokers hold down jobs, live responsibly, call themselves libertarians, and even, in a few instances, vote Republican. But I also live in the city, and understand that pot is the primary food group for the human wreckage that collectively constitutes the social problem.

I'd be happy to experiment with legalization of pot if we also got rid of the welfare state. But the two together are a bad combination.

[eddie willers]

the possibilities of negro jazz musicians having relations with white women under the influence of the demon weed.

Kim Kardashian put the lie to that.