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  Re: A Matter of Political Incorrectness  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 16 Mar 2016 12:46:30
Message: <56e98de6$1@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:42:14 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 3/10/2016 10:46 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Quite possibly.  There's a stigma for pot users that somehow people who
>> drink alcohol or smoke tobacco don't have (though in the US at least,
>> tobacco users do have more stigma now than, say, 30 years ago).
> 
> That view seems to have gone here. It is so common place. It might be
> just the people I meet. There is a lot more tolerance than there was
> when I was the age to smoke it.
> Or maybe it's because I live in London - Sin City.

Could be.

The irony is that the criminalization of pot in the US is driven largely 
(but not exclusively) by a party that claims to be about "personal 
responsibility".  There's an irony in that.

Jim



-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw


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