Posted on 01/11/2011 5:00:40 PM PST by kristinn
I agree. Of course, they don't enforce the anti-drug laws now, so we're already seeing them. Remember, it's all a "lifestyle choice" nowadays. But drugs are seriously dangerous.
The reason alcohol is accepted is that in general, moderate use doesn't harm people and is actually even nutritionally beneficial. But there is nothing beneficial about drugs.
The same friend of mine who was verging on psychosis from her dope smoking could also barely walk up a flight of stairs...at the age of 16...without wheezing and coughing because she smoked so much. Pot smoke is apparently much higher in tar (that would be hashish) and more damaging than cigarette smoke, but that doesn't matter to the average leftist druggie, no matter how much he hates tobacco smoking.
I suppose it’s probably not only liberals, although they’d be more likely to overlook weird behavior. But it’s true, parents want to protect their kids and will overlook just about anything.
I'm sure that was the case. None of my kids is psychotic, thank God, but I wonder what I would have done if I started noticing weird things. In retrospect, I think I would have sought out somebody somewhere to discuss this with and find out my options.
Or maybe not. It's very hard to know what any of us might have done in a situation like this. I worked with the mentally ill so I would probably have recognized the problem earlier, but other people might not.
I don’t know. Possibly because they felt the University of Virginia shooter couldn’t have been of any use to them politically.
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