The Great Weed Debate  

The U.S has always had a strange relationship with weed. First of all, it grows naturally, so it's not a manufactured "drug." But it was classified as a drug. Alcohol (beer and spirits) are not naturally-occurring. We'll give wine a pass because it sort of makes itself - rum doesn't. Many people equate smoking weed to dropping acid. That just makes them sound dumb and uneducated. Not every pot-smoker is a stoned-out hippy. The guys who taught me to fly were Viet Nam vets and some of them admitted that on the way home from a mission, everyone in the helicopter would light up. In the present-day I've known Utility pilots who like to take a little "binger" before going flying. I don't condone it. It's their career. Someone I know reportedly got fired when he was smoking a joint in the living room of the crew house and the Chief Pilot walked in. Oops!

Nobody has ever overdosed on weed. Weed does not affect your driving ability like alcohol does. Weed doesn't send you into a hallucinogenic state. It doesn't make you aggressive like alcohol does. Weed makes you mellow. Guys don't go out to weed bars, get high and then get into fights with other stoners over stupid sh!t. And they don't crash their cars on the way home. And they don't beat their wives in a weed-fueled rage. Remember, Jamaica has never invaded any other country.

The "problem" with weed is that it's an intoxicant but there is no side-of-the-road test to tell if you've been smoking. Urine samples, yeah, but it's not like the police can say, "Here, step out and pee in this cup, sir. Go behind that bush if you need to." If you got stoned at home and neither you nor your vehicle smelled like pot, the cop would have to have some serious other probable cause to take you in and make you give a urine sample. "Officer, my eyes are bloodshot from reading all the stupid posts on JH this evening."  "Ohhhh, I understand.  Okay, you're free to go. Oh! And by the way, stay offa PPRUNE, that'll make you look stoned AND stupid!" "Yes, thank you officer, it's just OnlyFans for me from now on!"

Between alcohol and weed, alcohol should be the one that's illegal. But don't you dare try to take away my Bud Light! ...Errr, I mean Mich Light! That's it, yeah, Mich Light. Bud Light? Never touch the stuff. I hear that it makes you the geigh.