I'd just like to throw in this perspective on 'ethsfreshman' as I think it speaks to another post that someone put in the feedback forums earlier regarding minors.

I'm probably like most people here and wait for the day for marijuana to be decriminalized or legalized in the U.S. In the meantime, I and other smokers continue to put up with the negative stereotypes surronding marijuana and 'pot smokers'.

I'm all about having fun, but the posts by 'ethsfreshman' truly do take away from the overall cause. If anything, his posts and his behavior play into the negative stereotypes that most of us face and only give anti's more fodder to use as to why marijuana is so 'evil'.

Consider this...years ago, you could hardly go to a firearm forum without being bombarded by ads for white supremicists (sp) websites. Eventually, the public started to associate firearms with the white nationalist movement and the pro-firearm supporters were getting black eyes because the association was taking away from the overall message.

In effect, you have the same thing here. The behavior of 'ethsfreshman' takes away from the message that most of us share. He certainley doesn't serve as a positive example encouraging marijuana to be legalized. And yes, he does have a right to post and others can easily use the ignore function. Totally agreed. But again, consider the venue...you have an 'underground' website that supprots an unpopular message/stance and you have users like 'ethsfreshman' that basically 'represent' the community. I'm sorry, but I don't want anti-legalization zealots using posts and behavior like 'ethsfreshmans' as more ammo.

Mind you, I have my own feelings as to how young is too young to start smoking. But I would say in cases such as 'ethsfreshman', these users need to be 'censured' until they can properly represent the community instead of contonuing to play into the hands of those that oppose legalization.