Posted on 01/08/2014 5:02:12 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
And going 5 points...was intentional, for humor :-)
I differ, on the point where opioids differ from psychedelics
Stuff like Heroin, can kill in one shot.
Pot,Acid etc...kills no one, when sitting on their couch.
Imagine the Super Bowl commercials.
Coincidentally in today’s Trib:
http://triblive.com/opinion/editorials/5368003-74/million-marijuana-legalization#axzz2pjfz2d3Z
You can’t force people to behave the way you would like them to. It would be best if they exercised and prayed every day, too, but we don’t outlaw other behaviors to enforce our vision of what is best.
You might have a point if prohibition (or Prohibition) worked, but it doesn’t.
I first became frustrated as a social worker/case manager by people who could not separate recreation from escape, no matter what means they used to get there-it is the main reason I quit, and work in construction now.
I think there will always be people who drop out-those people who are unable-or more likely-unwilling to cope with life as it comes. Making their substances/activities illegal might make the self righteous among us feel good, and provide law enforcement with some human playtoys, but serious escapists will just find some other means of checking out, legal or not-ultimately, they will probably self-destruct no matter what we do, and maybe that is their fate.
I don’t follow your logic on pot smokers staying home once it is legal. It is illegal now and they smoke in their cars and go out to clubs/or dining.... why would it suddenly being legal change that?
That is true, but if you are a responsible adult, you are smart enough to know the difference and make an intelligent decision.
Acid trips can certainly be deadly or damaging, as well-a college friend of mine OD’d and died at 20, and the brother of another friend slid off the edge of sanity-he spend 7 years in a near-catatonic state in a psych facility after he was found sitting and tripping in the road counting the rocks. He has never been the person he was before-total personality change to the point that you wonder if the “real” XXX is even in there, or was he hijacked by a body snatcher. Let the buyer beware, always...
For the record I am only talking about pot.
She needs to kick back, smoke a bowl, with a glass of wine, and throw on some CDs..
(Just jaggin ya!)
Yeah. They have mp3s and itunes now.
Yes, I had a friend that was for some reason intolerant.
He had many bad episodes,
But, he lived...and he stopped,thankfully.
My point was more or less, was anti coke-heroin (amphetamine/opoids) because the pot legalization anti-argument always leads to that conclusion, as sure as the anti-gun argument leads to the nuclear weapon straw man,
Cd’s is just a term of art.
But since you brought it up, I bet Apple is itching for legalization.
So am I, since that is the substance du jour-but I think it follows that personal responsibility covers more territory than any single substance, or activity for that matter-not just the one being focused on. I’m not interested in having a law against something because someone might get hurt or die-that can happen with anything that is unwisely used or undertaken.
If I’m going to even have one glass of wine away from home, I’m going to have someone else drive-I’m a lightweight in the alcohol tolerance department, and that is the responsible adult thing to do-I would hope anyone who is going to have a drink or even a few tokes does the same thing-if they don’t, and drive like an idiot then they should get busted, and no sympathy from anyone.
Whether that is marijuana or lawn darts.
To address whyisa’s question, I think you and I are thinking of more “mature” users. So to speak. Yes, young adults will go out on the town and I don’t think you will change that.
But you and I know that controlling the experience is what the older and wiser folks do. My stereo, my tv, my refrigerator, my climate control.
That is our policy too - my husband had a beer last night around 6 and we had to run an errand so I drove.
Ok, that makes more sense - I wasn’t following the logic on that one. But that applies to alcohol, for the most part, as folks get older.
A+++
I heard Patrick Caddell on a morning radio show (Mark Simone) and this former democrat pollster and campaign advisor says that the people are fed up with both parties and a change is gonna come. He points to a recent special election in Louisiana in which the heavily favored, party-supported candidate was defeated, 60-40 by a political neophyte. He says that we need a new crop of everyday folks—Mr. & Mrs. Smith, he calls them—to take this country back from the professional politicians. I couldn’t agree with him more.
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