Comments on: Inside Holland's "Half Baked" Pot Policy

Amid Calls for Marijuana Legalization in the U.S., CBSNews.com Looks at the Lessons of the Dutch Approach

[BruceHulvey]

"One is half baked when on pot, you can recognize them as soon as they talk,even the occasional user. They think they're intelligent and perceptive, but their logic and eyes give them away. That "half baked" turns to brain fried when most pot smokers eventually turn to hard drugs in search of a better high."

How much more wrong could you be?

I've always noticed the complete opposite. MOST people have no idea when a person has smoked pot. And that is why quite a few of you are so frightened by it. Besides, I've also seen plenty of people who act high or just aren't the brightest bulbs in the box. With alcohol a person can clearly see you are under the influence of something. Same goes for prescription drugs. I can pick a pill head out of any crowd.

You run into and know people who smoke pot every single day. They know how you feel about it and do not wish for you to know. Obviously.

How frustrating it has got to be to have fought for so long, lost so many good people along the way, and spent so much of our tax dollars only to realize, oh the horror of it all, no has budged an inch. LIES get you no where quick. And that's why it won't work.

[Lawyers-Guns-n-Money]

Experience or half-baked theory?

[jankebenzone]

One is half baked when on pot, you can recognize them as soon as they talk,even the occasional user. They think they're intelligent and perceptive, but their logic and eyes give them away. That "half baked" turns to brain fried when most pot smokers eventually turn to hard drugs in search of a better high.

[Lawyers-Guns-n-Money]

Experience or half-baked theory?

[robinspp]

If someone wanted to use drugs they will get it illegally any way. Legalizing the drugs does not mean everyone is going to use. Tobacco is freely available, how many are using. So it is up to the people to choose from good or bad. As long as it is not going to be a disturbance for others, it is acceptable.

[rwsmith29456]

Boy has this caused a lot of debate. I'm not a user and don't want my son to be but pot is so benign I say let's leave it alone and go after HARMFUL drugs which is just about everything else. Or else put alcohol in the same category. Illegal pot is working about as well as prohibition and makes people liable to criminal proceedings when we should be out trying to stop the REAL criminals.

[j40405]

The best part of legalization would be the savings of tax dollars. The U.S. spends billions every year trying to fight drug use and to no avail. Legalization (of marijuana only) could refocous law enforcement, tax dollars and goverment officials on more significant crime along with other problems. It would also free up prison space for real crimminals. I am not saying that drug or alcohol use is really good for anyone but keeping people in jail for years over posession of some pot seems ridiculous not to mention expensive. Our nation cannot continue on our current path since we are already running out of money. Time for a new path.

[bajajohn1]

There is no medical study of any type stating that marijuana use creates pyschosis. If anything, marijuana soothes folks so that they can relax, listen to music or actually use their ears during a coversation. You know, where folks actually talk and the other people listen.

[bajajohn1]

It is called the Lemming Effect. Monkey see, Monkey do...well, you get the drift.

[bajajohn1]

Actually, Bush was the cocaine user...also pot. But then again, Republicans oppose legalizing marijuana because they need to keep that source of campaign funds open.

[bajajohn1]

Government does not want people smoking pot because it allows for clarity in thinking and that is the problem, too much thinking and not enough working.

[Lawyers-Guns-n-Money]

You go out and smoke pot at night, and it is still in your system the next week.
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Yeah, so's a cheeseburger. What's your point?

[tincup356]

tp told you so29....you are beating a dead horse fella......I suppose yo u are a goody two shoes who has led a sheltered life, following your two party system around waving the flag while you cheer on the DEA, who by the way was created by the only president in American history to be run out of office,,,Richard M Nixon.....as he denied being a crook.

[tincup356]

to told youso29......why is it important to deny people a CHOICE,,,just because of legalization that does not mean everyone will be running out to try it,,,,,legalization would not stop YOUR choice not to try it.

[voxpopulus]

"Many pot smokers do progress to other drugs" Usually for two reasons 1) by keeping it illegal the government has ensured the supply chains are the same and (2) people realise the government has lied to them about pot and (wrongly) assume they are lying about other harder drugs too. I've smoked pot and I've smoked cigarettes. I gave up pot instantly. It took me five years to give up cigarettes.

[tincup356]

Who are you to judge ANYONE?,,,,,,,,,As you sit there drinking alcohol, calling pot smokers drug addicts,,,,,,did you forget the millions of Americans who smoke cigarettes ?,,,,they are a drug too,,,,,,or do you not know that, or just in denial?

[Void_Master]

IThoughtItWasFunnyNOPE: "Just keep your plant out of my neighborhood and don't put it in front of my kids...because it's a shooting offense as far as I'm concerned. If you want to stay safe...keep your plant for your own idiot kids...mine are going to grow up to be responsible individuals who don't need a prop to face reality."

See here's the thing, IThoughtItWasFunnyNOPE, you've actually nothing whatever to say about what goes on in your neighborhood beyond your own yard. It seems you're the one who could use a dose of reality.

Shooting offense indeed! You're the kind that gives a measure of credibility to the gun-control crowd. Stop and think about that, idiot. You just shot yourself in the foot with that one.

[voxpopulus]

You've obviously never been in a car with anyone driving on marijuana. You'll be creeping along at thirty and thinking it's light speed.

[tincup356]

Its all right,,,,we won't have to worry about DUI'S too much longer,,,,,we will all be forced into public transportation ....before long it will be way too expensive for average Americans to drive,,,,,the cost of maintaining a car will be out of reach for most people,,,,,,,,Legalization of marijuana has way more benefits than negatives.Besides the lies spread over the decades are proving false,,,,marijuana is not the killer weed that it has been advertised to be by our government. The damage BOTH parties have inflicted upon the people are far greater damage than marijuana could EVER do.At least if it were legalized the country would have new jobs and new industry to revive the economy.Not to mention stopping the insanity of jailing non violent people for smoking something that GOD gave us.

[Void_Master]

From the story: "In the United States, meanwhile, more than 40 percent of people 18 and older have used marijuana or hashish. America boasts one of the highest pot usage rates in the world."

They should have counted those under 18. The percentage would be closer to 75% to 80%. It's only a matter of time, now. I believe it will be *effectively* legal by the end of Obama's first term and completely legalized within a decade.

[scottportraits2]

I only hope you're right....

[rharrin1]

"Half Baked"

You mean they have republicans over there also?