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ok, so let me get this straight...we want to legalize pot but are trying to get rid smoking regular cigarettes and flavored tobacco? which is worse? I also grew up in the 70's and did smoke pot too(long ago), but I honestly thought this was the land of the free and the home of the brave. you know the bill of rights and all that? At least some pot smokers can say "they support ourlocal growers"...lol

I see my post got pulled. Ah well, let me summarize.

Sorry your youth was misspent, Duane. Maybe you really just have yourself to blame for that, not the weed.

Do you think someone who has a few beers on a Saturday night is using them as a 'crutch'? I would guess not. So don't try to characterize someone who has a smoke with friends occasionally as having a 'crutch'.

Duck I too smoked pot when I was a teen. The 70's.. heheh.

Had it not been available all over Shelburne Falls I probably would have stayed away from drugs. I would not have wasted half my youth being stoned and I might have stayed in Mohawk instead of going to tech where we could smoke pot all day.

Alcohol IS the number one abused drug because IT IS so readily available. That will change once your pot laws go away. Kids would rather get high than drunk, just drunk is easier and you don't go to jail.

Thank you for proving my point for me...

When our kids are all stoned and pot becomes the #1 abused drug in america.... refer to previous post.

It's clear who grew up and who still hides behind their crutch.. Thankfully all the hippies are almost dead..

T. Nugent.... you are guaranteed to have your post pulled with that sort of language.

And really... you're not helping.

Dwayne, I smoke pot. My kid, who just graduated from high school, does not smoke or drink or do drugs.

At least if it were available at the corner store it would be regulated (potency would be controlled, which it is not now), the sources would be controlled (no more profits for Mexican criminal gangs), you would need to have proof of age to buy, like tobacco and alcohol, and we could tax it and put that money back into the legit economy.

Tell us this, while we're on the subject: Would you support the criminalization of alcoholic beverages? Because that IS THE #1 ABUSED SUBSTANCE IN AMERICA. However, society has decided that it's better to regulate, tax, and control THAT market rather than let the black market handle it. And at least half the citizens of the USA are ready to extend the same to marijuana.

Yes, it's not a 'fringe' thing. The only thing holding it back is unfounded paranoia by relics like yourself. Good thing you are a diminishing breed.

When they sell it in corner stores like we do alcohol and your kids are all doped up, cause it's so readily available, then you will have no one to blame but yourselves.

Cronic pothead will be the next social security scam.

The voters of Buckland say NO to heaping more penalties onto people who are hurting nobody.

Soon, this ENTIRE country is going to realize that it has scapegoated generations of ordinary people at the tune of billions upon billions of dollars, and all for nothing but to satisfy some prejudiced, puritanical hypocrites.

"We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee...

... and white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all!"

Uh, yeah.

Damn! We just lost the possibility of some new Greenfield residents!

I predict pot will be legalized within the decade. The critical mass of opinion is shifting towards it all the time.

Legalize it, regulate it, tax it. And quit treating responsible users like criminals.

I see a way to close the budget shortfall in Greenfield.....