Pot: The Gateway Crime

Look Around | 11/06/2020 | blueunicorn6

[Mariner]

What the hell are you smoking?

[ClearCase_guy]

I think the stuff is a bad idea.
I also think the federal government really has no business making a weed illegal.

What I really want is for the government to get out of the charity business. No welfare. No food stamps. No assisted housing. You’re on your own. If you can build a solid life for yourself while using drugs, that’s fine. No problem at all. But if everything falls apart for you, don’t come crying to me and demand that I fund some “programs” for you.

[RedStateRocker]

“Marijuana has been called a “Gateway” drug”

Only by big-government loving jackbooted morons.

[dayglored]

> I suspect that my thoughts will be attacked with mass posting.

You were right about that.

What you say about pot is true of ANY minor wrong-doing, softening one's attitude towards other wrong-doings.

Speeding?

Pre-marital sex?

Leaving the office early (these days, kicking back for a nap early)?

Any of a million "Little White Lies"?

Eating the last cookie and blaming it on your sibling?

In other words, you pick on "pot" as a Gateway Crime" but it's one of a million such.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

~ C.S. Lewis

[blueunicorn6]

It’s gonna be a tough time for those who ignore reality.

Reality won’t ignore them.

[Mariner]

Leftists and statists often try to control a conversation with such platitudes.

[blueunicorn6]

Why do so many conservative people ignore pot?

Because they will keep their offspring away from it.

That means their offspring will get the better jobs and mates.

Pot smokers?

The hell with them. Let them rot. Let them sell French fries.

[blueunicorn6]

Some people make their living off pot.

Some people make a mighty fine living off pot.

They want to make more money off pot.

If those suckers want to give them money for a few minutes of forgetting the world, so be it. They’ll take the money. Those suckers deserve what they get.

The worst kind of lie is the lie you tell yourself and then come to believe.

[JerseyDvl]

Isn’t this a valuable waste of bandwidth?

[familyop]

"I think the stuff is a bad idea."

Sure, you do.

"I also think the federal government really has no business making a weed illegal."

Yeah, right. That's your real concern. Uh-huh.

"What I really want is for the government to get out of the charity business. No welfare. No food stamps. No assisted housing. You’re on your own. If you can build a solid life for yourself while using drugs, that’s fine. No problem at all. But if everything falls apart for you, don’t come crying to me and demand that I fund some 'programs' for you."

Except that you know that the government doesn't beg us for the money. The increasingly socialist government takes the money from the American people by threat of force. The government continues more towards socialism, because marijuana turns minds towards dishonesty and towards the left.

[ßuddaßudd]

¿can we blame the russians for mary janesky ?

[bassmaner]

Oh, please. History did not begin in 1937, when Harry Anslinger decreed that smoking weed made white women have sex with black jazz musicians.

Go away and watch 'Reefer Madness' for the thousandth time.

[kaehurowing]

Numerous studies have concluded that marijuana is one of the major causes of permanent psychosis and schizophrenia.

[blueunicorn6]

I think you mean

A waste of valuable bandwidth.

You are a child of the darkness who in his hurry to coverup his crimes, writes gibberish.

[blueunicorn6]

The worst kind of lie is the lie you tell yourself and then come to believe.

[Mariner]

“major causes of permanent psychosis and schizophrenia”

Does conjecture over 2% of those diagnosed constitute “major”?

Perhaps.

I would recommend that anyone who is on the cusp of being crazy not smoke weed. Or drink whiskey. Or participate in any occult activity.

[blueunicorn6]

What pathetic nonsense you write.

Pot is a gateway crime.

Refute this statement or go back to watching cartoons.

[fatman6502002]

You don’t know wtf you’re talking about. I’ve been smoking pot for 40+ years, I’m not a criminal and it has not been a gateway drug for me. Also, I much prefer to be around people smoking pot than people whom are drinking alcohol.