Quote:You're arguing weed is more acceptable because more people are using it. If that was the case there would be more acceptance for Meth, Cocaine, Crack and so on.


Weed's acceptance into the mainstream has nothing to do with a "changing of views" and everything do with a failure of policy. Prisons are over crowded for no reason, we have endless legislation restricting narcotics and an expansive police state to fight the "war on drugs". People that have never smoked weed even argue today that having it outlawed and prosecuted at the level it is today is wasteful at best.


These people aren't suddenly picking up the peace pipe, they're admitting the failure of the state the curve behavior with legislation. Just like prohibition of Alcohol didn't end because we had more alcoholics accepting it wasn't that bad, it ended because prohibition doesn't work!

edit: education, that's funny you've had kids taught since grade school for 20 years, just say no. Weed is a gateway drug blah blah blah, if anything the education has been counter productive.

No more people understand it isn't that bad for you. Many people who are in favor of legalization don't even smoke weed. Same thing that goes for approving it for medicinal purposes. And what you just described is a change in view about weed as a whole. People now are starting to believe that it is more beneficial to legalize it then to keep it a crime. Again, changing views on weed and many of those people again don't smoke weed. You are agreeing with me, but don't even know it. Education. The government pulled the wool over people's eyes for a while, using fear and still are, just look at ads running in Florida now. But through education people's view points have changed. The internet is an amazing thing. We no longer have to he force fed our information. We can easily do our own research. So yes, most certainly people's view on weed as a whole has changed.


Your missing it here eric. This is a new world. Education comes from google, from articles online. It doesn't matter what the schools say. They cant compete with the internet and the information age.

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