[CaptainCrunch]

Eradication might be impossible.

To be honest, I have no problem with legalizing pot, as long as it sold to adults only and in a controled environment like a liquor store.

I am all about massive punishment for people that sell drugs and manufacture drugs, and grow drugs.

I think that people that sell drugs to kids are the scum of the earth, and I'd be all for stringing them up by thier heels.

There has to be a balance between enforcement and permissiveness, I don't think we can go all the way on either side.

Even with the legalization of grass, you still have an enforcement issue because you have to treat it like an intoixicant, that means harsh sentences for operating a vehicle under the influence, and the ability to terminate people who use it on the job, so legalizing it isn't going to solve the problem.

Another part of any government policy in terms of legalization is to remove the criminal element from manufacturing it and profiting from it. That means to me that if you want to grow bud, you have to have a license, live up to quality levels and pay taxes on your profits, and if you don't then you go to jail.

I personally don't know if legalizing any drug is going to solve any of the social or criminal problems that drug use causes.

I do think that the punishment of users might have to be tempered, but as a society should we be seen as encouraging its use, I'm fine with limited use injection sites, and needle exchanges as long as there is an ernest effort by the users to get cleaned up.

Its a tough issue.