How about reporting stories straight and stop trying to be cutesy?

Sent by Bob Brister | 5:55 PM ET | 07-10-2007

I appreciate the attempt to be cutesy. Dude! I

Sent by Julieanne Conard | 9:45 PM ET | 07-10-2007

To all up-tight NPR posers.........the reality of the situation is as Bob Dylan commanded: everybody must get stoned! Your children are attending school taught by stoners, your bosses are stoned, and your collegues are either stoned or planning to score to get stoned. It's the way it is, like it or not. BTW, I find nothing cute about it, though i don't discriminate.

Sent by Katherine Morales | 12:59 AM ET | 07-11-2007

yea mon. when ya report a story, mon, report it while you're straight. We wouldn't want to read something written under the influence, mon.

Sent by helen wheels | 1:23 AM ET | 07-11-2007

You know, it is the illegal status of marijuana that allows it to maintain the cache of cool. I remember when it was considered humurous to see known actors "stoned" (ala Dean Martin) on alcohol. Over the years, we have come to see that behavior as reflective of abuse, and related to serious potential damage. The damage we are doing by keeping marijuana illegal includes the mainenance of a supposedly criminal subculture, the tragedy of jail time, and supporting an underground (and nontaxable) criminal economy. In addition, its illegal status results in the lack of ability to discriminate between the responsible recreational user and those who have substance abuse dependence, under-age users, those who drive while impaired, etcetera. In short, we are STILL coming from a "Reefer Madness" vantage point and its illegal status prevents us from addressing the realities of marijuana use. The cutesy journalism is indeed wearing thin on this issue.

Sent by Online Reader | 6:37 AM ET | 07-11-2007

i believe canada wants to decriminalize marijuana. being a canadian, i believe the US puts too much money into fighting something that is less problematic than alcohol.

discuss...

Sent by et | 8:52 AM ET | 07-11-2007

Weed should be decriminalized in the US, and the most practical way is for the Bush Administration to be true to it's essence, and sponsor legislation to authorized the tobacco industry to produce marijuana cigarettes which could be heavily taxed and beneficial to government and big industry. The tobacco settlements could be ammended to exempt payments based on the ratio of tobacco to marijuana cigarettes, thus giving big tobacco needed assistance.

Sent by steve myers | 9:33 AM ET | 07-11-2007

decriminalizing marijuana is not legalizing marijuana. decriminalizing allows governments to keep users out of the legal system. in effect, you get a ticket if caught. and in some areas, they just take it away. and this allows them to use the tax payers money in better ways, like health care.

Sent by et | 1:48 PM ET | 07-11-2007

Watch the Canadian show "Trailer Park Boys" if you want to understand Canadians facination with weed.
You will have a great laugh as you get to know the characters Rickie, Julian and Bubbles.

Cheers.

Sent by Alex | 6:50 PM ET | 07-11-2007

I would like to ask all my fellow Canadians to get high on life!
Drugs are not the answer even though they make you have a good time.
Take up golf, go to the show, help out at church, become a big brother, donate time as a volounter, cut the elderly mans lawn across the street, pick up garbage on the side of the highway, take in a play, coach soccer, sell insurance door to door, join a high control religion that makes you go door to door, veg out at the beach, take up running, start a rock collection.
See, there is a million and one things you can do instead of stinking up your place or someone elses with the smell of burning roap. Besides, the cops know what it smells like.

Hope this helps my fellow citizens.

Sent by Frank | 9:29 PM ET | 07-11-2007