Posted on 02/12/2015 12:13:17 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
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Hallucinogens provide hallucinatory behaviors.
The very opposite has been shown to me. As I said, that one pimp I knew initiated his encounters with weed, and within a week he had girls doing crack. After that they were his "Ho"s.
Your anecdotal evidence is very entertaining, but it is not statistically relevant.
You can wag your finger at users, or you can support the legalization that would take the market away from the murderous drug cartels. Your call.
So one chooses between death and death....not much of a choice! If the USA has become a nation where it’s people must put their lives at risk by doing dope
There is no record of anyone ever dying from marijuana overdose. And while users of other drugs (including alcohol) may kill themselves, the cartels kill others.
What would that be ... girls in bikinis, or the Most Interesting Man in the World?
I’m a critical care RN of 28 years and still practicing in the great state of Virginia. I have a burning hatred of the ruin of what the drug culture has done to countless lives! Yeah...smarter more careful folks sometimes get around the laws of averages and never let the drugs control them...but there are many more who have been caught up in drug addiction,(pot was usually the first drug...though some could argue tobacco) who have ultimately wasted their lives and have died young! Alcohol seems to get a free pass but it I think alcohol is much more destructive to far more folks than even pot is. “Wine is a mocker, and strong drink a brawler” according to Proverbs and I’ve spent many a 12 hour shift trying to detox alcoholic and drug abusers safely as they went thru DT’s, “the shakes”, da joneses” or what ever else you want to call it.
When you’ve faced down an naked angry psychotic patient bloodied from the urinary catheter he’s managed to pull out of himself while waving his private parts (spurting blood) around yelling....”yeah come and get some”...then one starts to come to certain hardened conclusions as to what the drug and alcohol culture is really all about!
Don't forget my personal favorite, chocolate.
CA 'decriminalizing' pot (1975) was a cost cutting measure.
Didn't like that fresh dose of reality eh? The real world often throws a curveball at the theoretical world, doesn't it?
PS: I oppose legalization because I do not want society to condone pot use for kids. I agree that a stigma is a good thing, culturally. The less kids using pot, the better.
And with this I agree. Marijuana may be the least harmful of the drugs, but the consequences of legally condoning drug usage will be far more significant in the long run. As someone I know once said "The Law is a normalizing force."
Some people are not influenced by what is or is not the law, but a very significant portion of the population is, and removing legal restrictions on something often engenders an increase in whatever it is. (50 million abortions since Roe v Wade)
They should perhaps decriminalize it for users, (not dealers) and just leave it at that.
The more that adults are allowed to make their own decisions, the better too.
I think in the context of mind altering drugs, the concept of "Make their own decisions" and the usage of drugs rest on completely different foundational principles.
How can someone on a mind altering substance make their own decisions? The influence of the narcotic has a direct effect on the decision making processes of the brain. Too often have I seen people under the influence of some drug "making a decision" that no one not under the influence would make, so is it the person making the decision or is it the drug?
Again, from my experience, it looks like too often it is the drug that is in the driver's seat.
To illustrate my point about consequences, I dare say the world would be a very different place if the Germans hadn't invented Meth.
I suppose we should be thankful they did.
This is so true.I have seen a lot.
I have no disagreement at all with your statement; you are speaking to a fellow kinsmen in this matter!
The sky is the limit. Anything that works, or that people *THINK* will work.
It will read:
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Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission here to the States by the Congress.
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What say you? Support it, or reject it?
“Worst of all, it leads to unemployment, welfare dependency and, ultimately, leftist voting tendencies.”
A whole lot of people live in a world that is entirely different from yours. You don’t know anything about that world.
“my Sister became Paranoid Schizophrenic because of Pot”
No, she didn’t, but it probably masked the symptoms for 15 years or so.
Then it's just painfully boring.
Every one of his "arguments" ends with either the statement or the implication that he's faultlessly educated, while you are, at best, a mere pathetic peon undeserving of his preposterously profound pearls. I have chunks of steaming, self-absorbed skank-stank like him in my stool.
;^)
Yeah...they keep saying stuff like that and I keep seeing the wasted shattered lives, dodging the blows of the psychotic drug addled patients and on occasion sending bodies to the morgue. You talk like Obama or Bush both claiming that Islam is a religion of peace! Drug advocates practice a form of Taqqaiyah more devilish than any Imam has ever muttered!
Lack of sleep has a direct effect on the decision making processes of the brain; is government therefore authorized to set adults' bedtimes?
How did that work out for them?
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