Posted on 11/25/2016 8:19:52 PM PST by Be Careful
My family fled the USSR.....and the Bolsheviks. Now...we are living on the West Coast amongst what I call the Bongsheviks....they are even worse.....Please don't let your state legalize pot.
Lol, great question that deserves an answer.
Did not like it in high school, college or even when I was touring with a band.
However, I have seen alcohol and other drugs destroy lives, and take lives of people close to me, but never saw pot devastate a life or kill anyone.
However, if you want to sign on to a drug war fighting pot that has cost us hundreds of billions of dollars over the years, good luck.
The connection is that recreational users of marijuana in the U.S. - just like their Russian Bolshevik counterparts in the early 20th century - reject democratic processes, and are instead attempting to orchestrate a violent overthrow of the existent regime and institute a dictatorship of the prolet...
Oh, wait... You're right: There is no connection.
Regards,
Pot is a gateway drug. In a recent study at a county near of the past 100 arrests for heroin usage 100% began with pot. Admittedly not all pot users turn to heroin but all or almost all heroin users begin with pot.
The changes to the brain remain after the detectable traces have left the bloodstream.
The recreational user of marijuana has exercised his moral faculties and chosen a lifestyle that is incompatible with being a brain surgeon. He is nonetheless dependent upon others who have chosen to undergo the necessary gruelling medical training and become brain surgeons.
The same could be said of astronauts, stand-up comics, cattle ranchers, and golf pros. There is nevertheless absolutely nothing hypocritical or cognitively dissonant about their seeking medical treatment from someone who has different preferences and made different choices.
Regards,
I don’t buy the gateway drug theory or other scare tactics. I think if you have an addictive or compulsive personality you make poor lifestyle choices....whether that is drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, women etc. But I have seen what chronic drug use/abuse (20 years+) has done to people. Not a pretty picture. Those states that did legalize found themselves with an influx of new residents. Some potheads and some looking to make a fortune in the industry. They now have a skyrocketing homeless rate and government services are stretched thin. Should it be legal? I don’t know.
As far as the heroin epidemic is concerned, pot became legal so cartels had to find another cash cow. Heroin is cheap, plentiful, easy to conceal and highly addictive. It’s a win-win for the cartels.
If one wishes to destroy the international criminal cartels, then legalize heroin and cocaine.
Otherwise, it’s just talk.
> The connection is that recreational users of marijuana in the U.S. - just like their Russian Bolshevik counterparts in the early 20th century - reject democratic processes
Just wondering, do you eat food - like Hitler did?
Begone troll. FR doesn’t want you addicts infesting our threads.
He’s been here since 1998.
Excuse me, noob?
Stating that there are drugs that they may not have tested him for does not absolve him of the responsibility of making the decision of using drugs.
I do not consider any form of substance abuse or addiction to be an excuse from responsibility of one’s actions.
“Stating that there are drugs that they may not have tested him for does not absolve him of the responsibility of making the decision of using drugs.”
How do yo know he made a decision to use drugs?
What evidence do you have?
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