Originally Posted by tyreay

Shame is relative to your beliefs. You are of course free to your own opinion.

I would be much more ashamed of being an alcoholic(which is a legal substance). I have no DUIs and that is because I realized alcohol is the real problem here in America, a long time ago.

When I was 17 6 of my friends and I went to the blessing of the fleet in Stonington CT. It was a big wood barrel keg party with lots of food, the night before the priest blessed the fishing boats. I smoked some pot and had one beer and ate and the rest of my friends got hammered. They didn't care who they served so buying the beer was easy.
It came time to leave and my best friend had a VW Bug. He was hammered and I talked him into letting me drive. We were going to one of the guys house to party some more. My other friend, Bob, had this big 1962 Oldsmobile with a monster v8 he called the gray ghost. He refused to squeeze into the bug and wouldn't give up the keys. I even tried the two trip idea. To no avail. He was suppose to follow me but blew passed me once we hit the back roads. We got to the guys house and Bob wasn't there. I got a bad vibe and talked my friend into going back up the road to look for him. We came upon a car stopped on the side of the road with his flashers on. We stop and asked what was up. He just point up into the trees. There was Bob's car, with the head light still on. He totally cleared a guard rail and in order to do so he must hav been going pretty fast. I was the only one sober enough to climb the tree so I went up. I had a flashlight and when I shined it in the car there was Bob with no head. A branch had gone through the windshield and decapitated him. It was The most tramatic thing I had ever seen. I fell out of the tree screaming. I broke my arm and puked my guts out. I stayed in my house for about two weeks. It took years to get over that.
Since that day I haven't drank and drove. I only drink on New Years and stay home.
To have alcohol legal and pot a crime is just plain asinine. Alcohol is the true gateway drug.