I respect all of your views Doug, and you are allowed and thankfully encouraged in our society to make up your own mind about what is morally right and wrong. Im not trying to convince anybody that smoking pot is the right thing to do...thats up to them to decide, not you or me (*unless they are our children, whom we are of course responsible for, then we do our best to educate them with facts so they are informed enough to make their own decisions when they are old enough).
And for the record, if im on the river next to kids, im not gonna light up, nor would i light up beside somebody without asking if they minded first. Common courtesy and sense does play a role with most of the pot smokers I know.
One more thing...Everybody in here touting the "law" as a reason to behave a certain way needs to put themselves in check before they criticize other people for disobedience. Ever sped in a car or not come to a complete stop at a stopsign? J-Walked? Drank in public? Brought something across the border and not claimed it? If youre gonna talk the talk you'd better walk the walk. And for those of you who have never broken a law, remember that oral sex is illegal in some states....is that something you'd follow blindly JUST because its a law? Ethics classes would do wonders for some of the puritan right wingers found in the lower mainland. Yeesh!