Tracii,
You really don't have to defend it's case to me because I know first hand how wonderful the stuff is.I used to work in "The Hemp Store".I know about Hemp.It truly is wonderful
&amazing.
As for the names of those celebrities who have smoked pot ,well people are all the same celebrities or not,people who smoke will always say it's great.
George Bush probably wants to promote marijuana to further
make the people docile.If people are all stoned they won't do
anything,they are passive,confused,paranoid,they are drugged.maybe I am being paranoid.
I know a little bit about Rastafari.At age 11 I bought my first album,Bob Marley and have loved him &his music ever since,read books watched films about him/Rastafari ,all of that...but sadly Bob Marley died of cancer.An end often met by smokers & people who are regularly around smokers.

I definitely have an addictive personality, so my experience with cannabis could be called extreme ;but look around you also at all the people with mental health problems (me included )who smoke alot or used too.
It effects people mentally & phsically in a negative way.

Maybe you feel like this is some kind of attack,
it's just that it's been such a huge part of my life,before when I smoked &even still now when I do not,because I have lots of memories and lots of blanks were the memories should be.
Reading your thread ,I feel like that was me only 7 years ago,with all those facts in defense of cannabis,I heard them all in The Hemp Shop &Co.
Do you really believe it does not have any negative effect
on people's brains,on their health?
Do you know for a fact that it does not contribute to mental illness?Contribute to anxiety disorders,schizophrenia for example?