I have been waiting for an elder or long-term user to chime in and state how they are so mentally developed or how super clear they see things from the many years of ganja inhalation.

I have been waiting patiently for an elder to state how they are living a healthier lifestyle because of it.

I have been waiting patiently for gman to finish his workshift to publicly respond to Ayinde's question.It has not happened. I doubt it will happen.

Plain and simple, the substance is just like many other natural offerings of nature. It holds no special magical elixir of life. It is not 'THE' "healing of the nation"...neither is aloe...nor ginseng...nor echinacea...nor patchouli, frankinsense or myrrh...nor moses, buddha, jesus, or muhammad or any other schism. These all may be aids in their proper usage but the key is still internal...the self.

We were born with hearts and minds. It is not as if external substances poisoned our hearts and minds so it will not require external substances to heal our hearts and minds.

How long have our brethren and sistren been smoking 'hearbs' and how has this usage advanced our liberation efforts? How has this usage forwarded the dismantling of white male supremacy?

I however feel that to just single out hearb usage is the same as singling out the police in the entire scheme of oppressive factions and implementations in our society.

If we single out marijuana, let us also single out the semitic salvation doctrine known as christianity and its effects on our people. Let us single out our complicity in the capitalistic nightmare that fuels the US's aggressions in the Middle East and Afrika. Let us single out the Obamanic placation complex. Let us single out the sports fanaticism that causes kids to skip school to practice dribbling to want to be like Lebron James. Let us single out EVERY facet of pacification which causes false elation, euphoria and ecstatic responses without true harmonizing and justice.

There are MANY things that are more distracting and destructive than marijuana. My curiosity arises because of so much attention being given to it.

Why is it such a major deal anyway? both pro and con...

One of the things I have been taught is to identify the importance of something by the guarded measures surrounding it. You see men in suits with sunglasses and earpieces with bulges around their wastes and you might find the president nearby.

A deeper discussion on the topic was requested upon the initial post. Lets take a dive.