1.) The reason to have a second child is that statistics show that it is GENERALLY healthier for children to grow up with siblings.  No secret there.  Please note that I said "generally", so don't reply about how your only-child is plenty healthy and well adjusted.  Yay.  Good for you.   2.) The reason for publishing...more

Pedophilia hurts other people.   Smoking marijuana doesn't hurt anybody else.   I think cocaine should be legalized too.  Why not?   Alcohol can be very harmful and it is legal.  So what's the difference?   Bestiality?  Well, I suppose if it hurts the animal it should be illegal.  But other than that, I don't ...more

Stinkey1959, alcohol is legal.  Does that mean that it is legal for a pilot to fly drunk?

Bath 8, how do you propose making that happen?

Yes, the same as we do for alcohol.  I agree with you.  Education is important.

Yes, but hopefully not owned by a few big corporations like cigarettes are.

If all 50 states legalized it, do you really think the politicians would vote to keep it illegal.  Obviously you don't know how politicians behave when they want to get re-elected.   You're right.  The "Potheads" will not win the war with any one battle.  Like all wars it will be won with small victories in multiple ...more

What does that have to do with legalizing it?

The same can be said of alcohol.    I agree that most people should not be using it.  I don't.  But making it illegal doesn't work any more than making alcolhol illegal worked.  It just wastes a LOT of money and accomplishes nothing.   As you said, you have seen your friends and aquaintances use it "time and again...more