WIZARD:

You are all using them. Every one of you
is using a dangerous drug.

CAROL:

What? Where?

WIZARD:

You, to begin with, are smoking a cigarette.
Bruce is nursing a beer and Jim is smelling
up the place with a joint.

JIM:

Hay man, maybe it smells, but you can
hardly call pot a dangerous drug.

WIZARD:

Why not. It's illegal and it is dangerous.

JIM:

Well it sure as hell hadn't ought to be
illegal, and it aint no worse than
cigarettes or alcohol.

WIZARD:

That may be true. Maybe it hadn't ought to
be illegal and maybe it isn't any worse than
cigarettes, but that's not saying much Jim.
I can show you cemeteries full of people who
only smoke and drank, plus more cemeteries
full of the people they killed doing it.

CAROL:

Now wait a minute. So Jim has a little pot,
he can hardly be accused of filling up
cemeteries. As for cigarettes, it is ridiculous
to talk about them being a dangerous drug.
Lots of people smoke and always have. Its
just not like coke or heroin or stuff like that.

WIZARD:

Isn't it Carol? The thing which pops to
mind is the passage in bible which says to
take the boulder from our own eye before we
start looking for the speck in our brothers.
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