Ahhh... but i was speaking specifically OF the potheads, the chronics, the joint-flag-waving advocates. Maybe i know more of them than you do, i know a LOT of them, and frankly, i'm fucking sick of hearing about how benign it is, how it can cure cancer, disease, war, and make your dick grow three inches. Its fucking pot. Shut the fuck up and smoke it. Nobody cares. And to be fair, any cop that would 'jack' you for smoking a joint today sounds like the kind of prick that'll jack you for pretty much anything. Here's a fun exercise; research how many laws you could break regarding any and all aspects of pot before last week, and research how many you can break now. I'll give you a hint, the country has NOT become a better place. More laws = less freedom, and some of us are particularly invested in personal freedoms. Again, if this were the Paranoid States of America this would be different. They are STILL fucking 'jacking' people for a fucking joint. What a shithole. I know even more people that just enjoy it as needed, a little here and there, like you. Not MY thing, but nothing wrong with that at all. Those people do not really have it much, or any better. As for getting 'bad' pot, well... that was one of my arguments for some time, and if i had a joint for every advocate that swore up and down that there is NO POSSIBLE WAY to get 'bad' pot, well... i'd be able to corner the market. So, that argument has been LOCKED. People cant use it one way pre-legalization, and then flip the other way after, no fucking way.
Are you actually going to buy it from stores now? Does it not gall you to pay more because the government wants a cut? The same government that was 'jacking' people just a week ago? Fuck them. I'd still be buying from a dealer. At least a drug dealer is honest. This is actually one of the more galling aspects of all this for me.
On your last point. I'd argue we just lost more personal freedom than we gained, and that too is my point. Worse? Myself, and many other non-smokers did not gain a fucking thing... and yet, we still lost everything you did. THAT... is fucking bullshit.
You know, at least we can be civil about it. I thought for sure i was getting flamed on this one...