Legal in my state. Not decriminalized. State makes a sh×t ton of money. If your caught driving high you get arrested. Ive never met a stoner that bullied anything but a snack. Im sorry about your experience. Drinkers are more of a problem than smokers in my experience. I still dont blame drinkers for destroying my country or way of life. Thats left to politicians and people that dont place blame where it belongs.
Go do a bit of research. Check the stats in ANY state that has "legalized" marijuana. They have all experienced an increase in DUI fatalities!
As far as the temperance movement, that's sort of a sideways affair.
Don't think that marijuana hasn't created its fair share of criminals, entrepreneurs, smells, bullies, etc, etc....
I find pot heads a HELLUVA lot bigger problem than drunks. (they're still under the impression that marijuana is harmless!)
Mikey and Larry were the two biggest potheads on the job. How they kept from getting others killed, I have no idea!
BOTH of them died in full care facilities!
No idea who they were or where they were. They just laid there in a pool of their own drool until they died a horrid death!
Tell was an alcoholic. He caught a trip out of town. The crew stopped ever chance they hot and bought him 7-Up and crackers. He threw it all up.
Same thing on the return trip. Crackers, 7-Up and nausea!
Tell made it to terminal sober, drove to the hospital and checked himself in.
A week later, a hearse hauled his cirrhosis of the liver corpse to the funeral home.
Same with Rusty.
I've had friends and acquaintances, male, female, old, young, rich, poor, dumb AND brilliant die due to drugs and/or alcohol!
The worst one?
Hal was 15 years old. His parents went out of town for the night.
Hal had some friends over. One of them brought a fifth of "Black Jack".
At some point, one of his (ahem!) "friends" bet him $10 he couldn't kill the remainder of the "Black Jack"!
He did!
His friend paid up!
Hal passed out!
His "friends" left!
The next day, Hal's parents found an empty whiskey bottle, a $10 bill and a son, very dead of alcohol poisoning!
Do tell me just how innocent drugs and alcohol may be!
BTW! One if my dad's favorite horse worming techniques was dose of strychnine!
So ugly crap can have beneficial uses.