No pot for us!

Californians defeated the proposition to legalize marijuana. So, no pot for you unless you are in blinding pain.

Or unless you can rig the system and get fake prescription!

There will always be a part of society which will find its way to anything that is addictive. Anything – medicine, cannabis, alcohol, cocaine...anything!

If the purpose of ban was to keep some barrier in place so that people have to jump some hoops thus preventing the mass population to be high...well, the purpose has failed....oh about forever back. Marijuana is rampant in high-school and colleges. The gangs are fully functional and weed is not that difficult to get if someone's looking.

In a way, the legalization could have imposed alcohol like limitations on who buys it and who sells it. it might have put some gangs out of business. Cops and courts could have had more time to look into pertinent issues. Patients could have had an easier time with getting rid of some serious and chronic pain issues. And oh yes, we could have used that tax money to build some school infrastructure.

Do some of us really think that banning something solves the issue? No, all it does is lets it fester under covers. Do we really think that we are all so gullible that if we had a choice to buy marijuana, it would make us all run to stores, buy it and be high?

We are not that fragile and we are not that stupid. We don't need to keep minding everyone's business with the fear that everyone will suddenly turn into an addict. If we want to do that, it is a can of endless worms – phones, TV, texting, internet, facebook?

How about the good old reverse psychology, open the stash and the candy will loose its lure!