Reply #26: Here's why I'm not thrilled by legalization.

[tomreedtoon]

I smoked the stuff briefly after college. I didn't like the way the THC hung around in my system for about a week afterward and affected my reaction time, concentration and general energy. It also got me into smoking cigarettes, and it was murder quitting that.

I'm not going to protest against it, and I think the current penalties are too Draconian, but the idea of having slow-thinking, absent-minded and paranoid people due to marijuana is not a good thing.