Are Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang too mean for today's kids? Good grief!

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Pot-smoking moms tired of being judged by wine drinkers

No, it's illegal and wrong.

• I have just as much a problem with lushes as I have with potheads. If you need mood altering substances just to cope with day to day stuff, you are a failure, give your kids away and remove yourself from the gene pool.

• I want to ban the INAPPROPRIATE use of pot, alcohol, etc. Getting behind the wheel of a car while under the influence should be a FELONY whose second offense is punishable with 10 to life in prison.

• I can duplicate Fig's results with my own friends when growing up. As for whether they had a miserable life? They did, from their own testimony. As for my credibility, don't drink, don't smoke, etc.

• Amen, freedom fighter, it is possible the potheads are just jealous of us because we made better decisions than they did.

• Still not part of your "we". Never smoked the stuff at all and yes I lived through the 60s and 70s also.

• cathy, congrats on your recovery. CommonS3nc3, denial is not just a river in Africa, when you realize that progress can be made.

• Idiomic, there are people who can drink like fish for years and quit cold turkey because they do not have an addicitive personality. Your parents must not have had one either.

• As long as you don't drive while under the influence (note pot takes a lot longer to exit the system than alcohol), don't use it in the presence of minors (I would welcome that restriction for alcohol also) don't use your habit as an excuse to commit other crimes and don't use it in the presence of  …

• You may believe it wasn't the pot, but can you be sure? I watch straight A students drop out of school due to alchohol and/or pot. They simply lost the will to study and learn.

• Tell that to three of my acquaintenance in high school who never graduated to anything better than a cemetary. Pot does kill.

• Even NORML only claimed a $1 billion increase in taxes the first year of legalization and $10 billion after that. Our current situation needs TRILLIONS. Maybe smoking pot has affected your math skills.

• Don't have to try it to understand its effects. Mostly bad effects. So without trying it, I do understand it and do not fear it. mtbdude is correct, is you cannot cope with day to day life without drugs (alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, xanax, paxsil, etc.) you are a loser, period.

• I will support legalization if smoking pot is equal to smoking tobacco, i.e. not in public places, and getting behind the wheel of a car while under the influence (of pot, alcohol, paxsil, etc) is Attempted Vehicular Homicide through Depraved Indifference to Human Life.

• For the same reason no one is going after this mother, no one wants to open the Government-Interference-In-The-Normal-Life-Of-A-Family.

• Oh, you mean actual Medicinal MJ? I am totally cool with that. Med MJ was "legalized" by the voters in Colorado a few years ago, but there seem to be 100 times as many people with a need for MMJ than was "estimated" before legalization.

• You alter your mind, you become a danger to others. I do not care if you alter with Xanax, Paxsil, Prozac, tobacco, alcohol, marijuana or any other mind altering drug.

• From both anecdotal and clinical evidence, pot is only a "safer" drug, not a totally safe one. Note: alcohol is, indeed, more dangerous than pot in most cases, but neither is safe.

• But it is okay to subject them to second hand MJ smoke? However little there is left in her lungs? Please spare me the platitudes. The road to (where?) is paved with (what?)?

• Had to read it ... twice ... in school. It's horrible, period. Yuckkkkkk.

• gov cheese, no, you will still have to pee in a cup. Companies (and the government) have the right to ensure their employees are free from mind altering drugs like MJ, alcohol, meth, etc. and they probably will never have that right rescinded.

• Well are cannabinoids the ONLY anti-oxidants with these properties? Only a suggestion that you get your AOs from legal sources, instead of making an argument to legalize weed.

• Both alcohol and cannabis are drugs, one is currently legal and abused and the other is currently illegal and abused. Can we please get rid of the abuse part?

• Thousands of people take their driver's test drunk and pass, so what? The effects of Cannabis upon drivers means that Cannabis is harmful (besides the smoke).

• Musician, MJ is not addictive to SOME users. It is, however, addictive to others, just like not everyone who drinks becomes an alcoholic. Try using some arguments are not rebuttable by three year olds. twocentsin, alcohol and cannabis are both drugs, as is caffeine. Try using the truth.

• 1964jv, you, sir are an exception, not the rule. I have seen too much of the ravages that cannabis can cause to believe that your experience is the norm.

• Has anyone really figured out that the "thousands" of studies may have screened out all participants with addictive personalities? After all medical studies screen out all sorts of people that have conditions that might compromise the study.

• Even when funds are "targetted" to special projects, once the money gets to the taxor, all accoutability is lost as one dollar looks much like another and no gov entity wants to do the seperate accounting necessary as that would make their processes transparent, an anathema to gove entities.

• See above post about how all those studies could be meaningless. If you were going to study cannabis with the idea of proving that it is harmless, safe and non-addictive, could you see ways to make sure that no negative outcomes occur? The pharm companies do it all the time.

• Musician, for once you are correct, MJ is not a narcotic, but it is still a mind-altering drug, just like alcohol and caffeine

• I guarantee you do something to cope with your stress.

• I admit to eating a whole package of oreos in one sitting but I knew it was fatterning. Now oreos do not come into the house.

• In the presence of children they are all bad, period. Comparisons are useless here, do not do any of them at all.

• For the most part I hate the Nanny state. But unless there are some controls put in place at the time of legalization, even more "bad things" will result. Already in Colorado, after cannabis was legalized for medical use, proponents of total legalization are pushing non stop, regardless of consequen …

• law abiding people whose only crime harms no one

• Harm. I will not bother you with a list of people more than fifty long that I have watched being harmed by pot smokers. Specifically, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, sons, daughter, grandparents, cousins of pot smokers are harmed because their habit affects these others lives, negatively.

• Well, thank goodness I kicked the alcohol habit more than 35 years ago!!

• Better does not make it a good thing.

• Lynn, NORML estimated tax revenues in the small billions, the national debt is over 15 trillion. Cannabis taxes would be a drop in the bucket.

• Belladonna is a naturally occuring herb. Natural does not necessarily mean safe.

• Still yet another post too long to read. One screenfull is my limit.

• I could care less what they do in the privacy of their homes, as long as they do not drive impaired (and yes, cannabis does impair you) or do it while they are responsible for children..

Breast-milk shortage hits milk banks; tiniest babies at risk

No.

The hot toy for the holidays is... a pooping dog?

Gross and offensive. No way!