As someone who always got gassed as a kid at the dentist and never even considered smoking marijuana, I guess I'm having trouble with the whole comparision between the two.

Maybe I'm just a natural compartmentalizer or something, but when something was given to me by a Dr., regardless of how it made me feel, I considered it *acceptable*. It was legal, it was helpful, and it was recommended by someone knowledgable who was trying to make me feel better.

If someone approached me and wanted me to purchase an illegal substance with an efficacy that was not really known at the risk of jail time all so I could have a feeling similar to the one the physician elicited using *his* substance... I'd have kicked him in the shins and headed for home.

When I ride a go-kart I floor it. I rode go-karts before I drove real cars. It never occured to me to transfer my love of flooring it to the open highway.