Four Two Oh

Yesterday was April 20th, or as others know it, 4-20.

This was the scene at CU Boulder and downtown Denver yesterday:

To me, that's just crazy and mind boggling. Not one arrest or citation was made is relation to the events that took place yesterday (as far as smoking weed goes).

I have never participated in something like this and I probably never will. Although, I'm sure my younger brother was somewhere in California yesterday, lighting up with his buddies.

I'm sure I'll get some flack/hate/anger/arguments for saying this, but I am not against smoking weed or others smoking weed. Do I do it now? No. Have I done it in the past? You bet I have.

I know there are a lot of arguments as to why and why not marijuana should be legalized. I think the main problem with legalizing marijuana is that there is no way to regulate it (like alcohol) and there's no way to test someone for there level of "intoxication." People can grow their own Mary Jane, but people can brew their own beer and moonshine too, you're just not allowed to distribute it.

I think there are many people that can benefit from using marijuana for medicinal purposes. People who have eating disorders, individuals that suffer from severe nausea from cancer treatments, and those who have chronic pain from whatever it may be.

I guess what irritates me is the stereotype. I would say that most of the time, stereotypes are accurate. To me, for someone to categorize a person that smokes weed as a lazy, stupid, unmotivated person, is the same as saying that those that go out with friends to drink and get drunk are "alcoholics." For some people, it's true. For most, it's not.

I find 4-20 interesting in that all of those people can get together and do that, and no one was arrested or caused any problems. It makes me wonder; what if you let 8-10,000 people binge drink and get drunk... how many problems would there have been yesterday?