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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (103464)	5/8/2005 10:10:42 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I don't believe I said anything at all about the redeeming virtues of marijuana, although I do acknowledge the medical uses, and agree that it should be legal people whose conditions benefit from it. I do think that for most young people who try it, it is brief experimentation typical of lots of other kinds of experimentation. Some become addicted, but most do not. I think if you polled every student at our finest universities, and all the young corporate hotshots under about 35, the vast majority of them have tried marijuana or smoke it occasionally. My daughter just absolutely hates being out of control in any way--she would not even take painkillers after she had her wisdom teeth pulled. So she was not interested in trying marijuana, although she had ample opportunities from sixth grade on. If she had, I would have taken it extremely seriously, as I said before. I think you might assume I am a lot more permissive and liberal than I am, really, from some of your comments. The Haight district of San Francisco, as well as all the backwoods towns from California north to British Columbia, are filled with burnouts who never moved on from smoking it. I would agree that this is not a really healthy lifestyle. But most people do make it back. Look at all the former hippie boomers who are still going strong!