I agree more with Rouge. It's not that I think we should just ignore the wacky-tabacky....but it's just SUCH a mis-use of resources.
Police / politicians should be allocating time / effort to getting the REAL criminals.
To me, this sounds like the equivilent of the gun registry. Officers of the law are hunting down farmers and duck hunters because they have been turned into criminals. Meanwhile, real hard-core criminals are organizing real threats to our safety and there are not enough cops to stop them.
Sounds like smoking a joint is now more criminal than drunk driving. Is that right? Again, I go back to the "Are you inhibiting my freedom" school of thinking. Someone smoking the chronic down the block doesn't really bug me. Some boozed-up low-life crusing the block could kill me / someone else.
And we can't smoke on patios (SECOND HAD SMOKE KILLS!!) but gambling addicts and alcoholics are routinely not properly taken care of.
Just another example of screwed up priorities IMO.
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