I think that most people have tried it.I just hate it's rancid putrid stench.I've know a few long term users who have suffered memory loss and lack of motivation.For some suffering serious chronic medical problems,it seems to be a good pain reliever.If you are dying from cancer,does it really matter?

We should not deal in absolutes when addressing the benefits verses the losses on anything.Circumstances change both the perception and what are the solutions to problems.Poppy seed is both the source of pain relief and life destruction.Cars can kill,make our lives more amienable or give us pleasure through pure exhilaration.It is a matter of having the will to do the sensible thing.We cannot protect people from themselves because at some point,we all have to assume individual responsibility

Don't know CJ and Celivia. Hasbeen sounds like a serious adrenalin junkie to me. Lots of politics is probably very tedious, boringly having to listen to other boring opinions to come to some boring compromise. Nothing like a win-win situation to deflate and seriously depress a 'real' winner.

I'd be a bit concerned that Hasbeen might want to stand in a military flight jacket on some big carrier in some foreign waters declaring the 'success of a win' of an invasion. We've tried that before and are still picking up the pieces of that little thrill ride.

Give me a pot smoking 'love-the-world-man' PM to an 'I-love-that-adrenalin-rush' thrill seeker any day.

Now I've thought about it, Malcolm just might get my vote next election. I'm watching Kev closely. Did he ever smoke pot?

Malcolm's casual and rare use Pot is the sort of thing alot of us did Bill Clinton included.

Such "errors of judgement" enhances his humanity, something which "clock-work Kev" could do with.

In fact Bill C's times with Pot were overshadowed by his times with cigars and Monica (who could have been nicknamed the human-humidor).

That interview with Tony Jones was quite revealing.Malcolm seemed to trying really hard to contain himself.Age apparently has mellowed him.Well not too much.People kept inquiring about his volcanic temper.Well I see nothing wrong with an occasional tirade just to let the troops know where they stand.

Tony Jones was soon put in his place with wit and congeniality. I think that Kevin Rudd had better raise the bar a peg or two,he now has a real fight on his hands.

Anansi: "Give me a pot smoking 'love-the-world-man' PM to an 'I-love-that-adrenalin-rush' thrill seeker any day."

Amen to that sista!

I think it was Mae West who said, "I love a man who takes his time".

Which is why I have always preferred pot to speed...

Well for all those who have never thrown away their catechism, we all know that smoking pot is morally wrong. As far as Malcolm Turnbull is concerned, seeing that his smoking of the wacky weed was a very long time ago, there is no issue.
It would be best if as Australians we chastise instead our meat pie challenged journalists ( yes there used to be that variety back when Malcolm was trying the wacky tobaccy)who asked non-American tsk tsk puritan questions such as the one asked of Malcolm. He saw it coming and answered before being asked.
Australia is becoming a little Yankraliya; very sad.