Yup. I've always said, that if I handed two teenagers 40 dollars each and told one of them to go buy a bottle of booze and bring it to me, and told the other to do the same with a sack of weed, I'd put 200 bucks down on the kid I sent for the weed to come back first.

The very fact that it is illegal makes it easier to obtain illegally by minors. And as for the spurious claims that it is a gateway drug...

A. It wouldn't be a gateway drug if it were legalized and regulated; the average person would not be put in contact with the elements of society that dealt in the harder stuff just to buy a bag of weed.

B. Going with the "use of one will lead to the use of the other" definition of gateway drugs, I'd bet good money that 100% of heavier drug users started out with the two legal substances, alcohol and tobacco, before moving on to the harder stuff.

C. If a person is already inclined to try harder stuff, he will. See my above comment about alcohol and tobacco.

Meh. I don't give my money to child rapists. If it is on in the background somewhere, I may watch it for free.

But I will not support a man who deserves to have his family jewels crushed in an auto shop vise.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Uhm. I don't smoke pot. Try again.

If they do disagree with me, it's solely because they refuse to do due diligence on their candidate of choice. His voting record is publicly available for all to see.

I'm not basing my statements on opinion. It's solid fact.

As well, where did I directly insult or condescend to you in any of my posts? Here it comes now, though, sweetie.

If you insist upon voting on one push button issue to the exclusion of all others in this election, you are an idiot. There is too much at stake. The future of our Republic hangs in the balance.

Once again. Santorum is NOT conservative in anything but his pro life stance. In almost every other instance he has sided again and again with people who want to grow the power of the federal government in our lives.

Just because he loves babies doesn't make him a conservative. He's a baby loving STATIST who should by all rights have a "D" in front of his name, and would, but for their stance on abortion.

Purely social conservatives (and I'm guessing you are one of them, judging from your adherence to labeling Rick Santorum as "conservative") are some of the most dangerous voters out there, because they claim the mantle while not believing the basic tenets.

United States Constitution (Article and section abridged for relevance)

Article I Section 8

The Congress shall have power:

- To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

- To provide and maintain a Navy;

- To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

- To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

- To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

He himself has admitted his foreign policy is to the left of BHO.

Just because Santorum is pro life, doesn't mean that he is conservative. Far from it: he is nothing more than a baby loving Big Government statist, who has never met a spending bill that he didn't like.

This is NOT the election cycle to be a one issue voter, unless that single issue is "Get BHO out of office". One issue voters are part of the reason why we have such abysmal choices every single year on the Right side of the field.

As for Ron Paul, I have my reasons for not wanting him in charge (and his stance on the failed War on Drugs is not one of them), but if its between him and the Zerotron, I'll pick him. At least I'll only disagree with him 30-40% of the time, versus 99%.

Because his uncle was living on the public dole, his brother in Africa lives in a shack half the size of the smallest half bathroom in the White House, and his other relative (aunt I think) was also living here illegally and on the public dole.