[Chad C. Mulligan]

I get so tired of these “killer weed” fanatics. Coming-of-age in the ‘60s in Cambridge, MA., I could probably have counted the people I knew who DIDN’T smoke rope on one hand. Sure, there were a few crazies among them, but they were already crazy before they started smoking it. Self-medicating with the weed, as it were. These weed-paranoiacs don’t get that. Correlation is not causation.

I’m not advocating for legalization. The underlying social problem with hemp is that it encourages useful people to become slackers. Or maybe it just reveals the inner slacker who was always there. We’ve got enough welfare leeches as it is.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

The stuff we used as teens is nothing to the strains today. A buddy was dying of cancer and used some to ease pain, and so forth. He kept telling me how powerful it was compared to the 70's. Like, scary powerful.
Everyone is using it. I smell it everywhere at the shopping malls,etc. I smell it on people waiting on me at stores.

[caddie]

Agreed.

The underlying social problem with hemp is that it encourages useful people to become slackers.

The brain, as you know, has a really complex reward circuitry that we are built with. No question that we were designed for hard work, thought, delayed gratification, moral behavior (the highest type of circuitry deals with this).

Weed and most other drugs short-circuit the circuitry and turn people into worthless lazy bums a.k.a. Rats or Libertarians.

The commies were very smart in incorporating drugs as a strategy of undermining the USA. It worked.

People I know who were chronic users have had their frontal lobes turned into gristle. Promising as children, raised in homes with high-achieving middle class parents, they lost all motivation in high school and college. High IQs but not motivated enough to do homework. Some are living on the fringes. Many are dead, very young some of them.

I always thought our developing knowledge of neuroscience vis a vis motivation and achievement, these past 30 years, would close the book on the recreational (sic) drug era, but the opposite occurred.

Yes the COMINTERN really hit one out of the park with the USA recreational drug strategy.

They, on the other hand, particularly the Chinese, treat drug use in their population with intracranial lead therapy.

[jmacusa]

As a recovering alcoholic I’ve seen the damage it can do. Ever hear of a ‘’wet brain’’?

For a perfect example of what it can do look at Ozzy Osbourne.

That’s what booze did to him.