[TheRealThing]

Because Hoot think's he so much smarter than everyone else, and can't pass up an opportunity to try to show that I'm either lying, or can't do math and know what I make. I've tried a couple of times to get it back to the topic, but Hoot and TRT can't let it go there.

You really think I want to come on here and hear about your finances all the time? I slugged it out in the work a day world too, and I did it in the typically hostile waters of a bunch of guys who wanted to rise in the ranks that were less than flattering when my back was turned, and don't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about.

So, let's get back to it. This idea that you and others keep coming with that people should be allowed to do what they want to do. If that includes drug abuse then that should be legalized, and taxed. We already know it will be impossible to regulate. It's basically the same argument the left makes with regard to abortion rights. People want to be allowed to do what they know is wrong without paying the price for their actions. Murder is wrong, but we simply repackage it under a racey new nomenclature and send it back out there with the backing of liberal activist legislators and judges who, after 230 or so years, suddenly decide it's legal. Drug abuse is a national shame, but the users would have us believe it is the magic elixer of our time and that the 'man' is trying to hold everybody back. It's wrong, but there will always be the rationalizers out threre making ever more convincing arguments that is actually right.