smoking pot obviously leads to harder drugs

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[freepatriot32]

I got this in my email this morning showing how [snip] stupid nanny staters can be over the last couple of centurys. I wonder how many of these "highly intelligent" people went on to get cushy government jobs? Pay very close attention to the comic books qoute. Why anyone ever listens to people like this is a mystery but im sure there will be people right on this board agreeing with almost everything here and calling for big governemnt solutions to solve these societal ills.

Novels

"The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth; and prevented others from improving their minds in useful knowledge. Parents take care to feed their children with wholesome diet; and yet how unconcerned about the provision for the mind, whether they are furnished with salutary food, or with trash, chaff, or poison?" - Reverend Enos Hitchcock, Memoirs of the Bloomsgrove Family, 1790

The Waltz

"The indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced ... at the English Court on Friday last ... It is quite sufficient to cast one's eyes on the voluptuous inter­twining of the limbs, and close com­pressure of the bodies ... to see that it is far indeed removed from the modest reserve which has hitherto been considered distinctive of English females. So long as this obscene display was con­fined to prostitutes and adulteresses, we did not think it deserving of notice; but now that it is ... forced on the respectable classes of society by the evil example of their superiors, we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion." - The Times of London, 1816

Movies

"This new form of entertainment has gone far to blast maidenhood ... Depraved adults with candies and pennies beguile children with the inevitable result. The Society has prosecuted many for leading girls astray through these picture shows, but GOD alone knows how many are leading dissolute lives begun at the 'moving pictures.'" - The Annual Report of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1909

The Telephone

"Does the telephone make men more active or more lazy? Does [it] break up home life and the old practice of visiting friends?" - Survey conducted by the Knights of Columbus Adult Education Committee, San Francisco Bay Area, 1926

Comic Books

"Many adults think that the crimes described in comic books are so far removed from the child's life that for children they are merely something imaginative or fantastic. But we have found this to be a great error. Comic books and life are connected. A bank robbery is easily translated into the rifling of a candy store. Delinquencies formerly restricted to adults are increasingly committed by young people and children ... All child drug addicts, and all children drawn into the narcotics traffic as messengers, with whom we have had contact, were inveterate comic-book readers This kind of thing is not good mental nourishment for children!" - Fredric Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent, 1954

Rock and Roll

"The effect of rock and roll on young people, is to turn them into devil worshippers; to stimulate self-expression through sex; to provoke lawlessness; impair nervous stability and destroy the sanctity of marriage. It is an evil influence on the youth of our country." - Minister Albert Carter, 1956

Videogames

"The disturbing material in Grand Theft Auto and other games like it is stealing the innocence of our children and it's making the difficult job of being a parent even harder ... I believe that the ability of our children to access pornographic and outrageously violent material on video games rated for adults is spiraling out of control." - US senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2005

[freepatriot32]

The sky is falling the sky is falling lord all mighty the sky is falling lets all move back into caves and only use bonfires started with flint and steel to heat and cook with

I made a joke about a month or two ago on a nanny state do gooder thread about the biggest danger to world health is history books because everyonethat reads them eventually dies. Now today i see this quote about comic books. The really bad part is the guy probably had a straight face the whole time he was spewing out that crap. Hell he might even actually believe what he said although I really hope he didnt.

[freepatriot32]

two centurys of the nanny state ping

[freepatriot32]

have you ever read any comic books robert paulsen ?

[freepatriot32]

ping

[cripplecreek]

What's next, horseless carriages and flyin machines?

[SoothingDave]

Are you sure this is really breaking news?

SD

[Grizzled Bear]

smoking pot obviously leads to harder drugs
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And eating lots of twinkies...

[freepatriot32]

i didnt post it to breaking news

[SittinYonder]

In each case they are correct ... had it not been for the waltz society would not have advanced to such a point where we see today large percentages of unwed women giving birth.

[SoothingDave]

My mistake. Carry on.

SD

[A message]

I'm closely involved in the comic book industry. I guess I should be... hold on a sec. gurgle,gurgle,gurgle, cough cough... ok, what was I saying? Oh yea, wasted.

Librarians these days are all talking about GNs and illustrated comic books. Look at the bays that Borders and Barnes and Nobles devote to the products of the comic industry. Where would Hollywood get new ideas if it wasn't for the art and literary form of comic books.

Comic books have never been more interesting or better than they are today.

I just finished a comic book by Jean Phillipe Stassen that discussed the Rwanda genocide. Another of my current favorite books is Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi that looks into her life as a young girl growing up in Mullah dominated Iran.

Comics more than ever are just books that are illustrated.

[A CA Guy]

smoking pot obviously leads to harder drugs

Seems to go that way, some seem to stay in politics and push recreational drugs also. A true waste of life.

[freepatriot32]

i knew there would be people on here agreeing with it

[SittinYonder]

i knew there would be people on here agreeing with it

Me too, but I was being sarcastic. Scroll down from my post to find someone who wasn't.

[freepatriot32]

oops sorry i was meaning to post that to a ca guy i knew you were being sarcastic

[A CA Guy]

Sure enough, but I don't think the ones in jail are in a position to be regular members of political parties that obsess about recreational drug legalization.
I had family do counseling with prisoners and most all mixed other drugs with pot as they did their crimes, so IMO it WOULD be better for us all if Pot never existed. (PS, that is called first hand knowledge)
I do think the harm it has done far outweighs the good it has done the few cancer patients who might need it.

[Gay State Conservative]

Although it's unlikely that all who smoke grass eventually wind up on crack/meth/heroin,I'll wager that the huge majority of those on the hard stuff started with grass.

[bird4four4]

I had family do counseling with prisoners and most all mixed other drugs with pot as they did their crimes, so IMO it WOULD be better for us all if Pot never existed. (PS, that is called first hand knowledge)

Still peddling that same line huh? Lets review. Mixed it with other drugs. Would that be Alcohol by chance? Or Crack? Well if they are mixing it with other drugs then how can you conclude that MJ was the problem? Would be more convincing if they said the ONLY thing they used was MJ and then they went on a rape rampage. See if you can find some examples like that.

Every few months I am compelled to remind you, that you, hearing from your family, counseling prisons, who say that most all mixed with drugs, is NOT first hand.

[bird4four4]

the huge majority of those on the hard stuff started with grass.

I wonder how many started with cigarettes? or booze!

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