Posted on 11/21/2004 9:15:23 PM PST by april15Bendovr
Yes, 'we' probably can! Apparently, you can't! (Uh, oh. Are you kinda buzzed right now?)
"What is your point on pot - again?"
In a nutshell, I would treat it like alchohol, but no bars I don't think. Oh maybe you could have bars, but not to start. Oh heck,no bars, you can't smoke in bars anymore as it is!
If people don't want to go that far, I would certainly authorize it for medical use.
Pot is the ONLY drug I would legalize, if I ruled the world.
When "tax dollars" are at work .."things are taken away from you for the common good" (HC)
No matter how many times I post this I will not gain friends as a result. If I can educate a few and learn from the posts then I have gained in other ways. I work with people that have destroyed their lives and try and help them to rebuild. I get pain and rewards from seeing both and that is my point.
> Frankly, I could care less, but when you guys smoke and drive (or drink, sniff, snort, shoot or swallow and drive) it potentially affects others. Other than the dude who ate Twinkies and used it for a murder defense, I've never heard of a guy high on potato chips causing an accident. But, you say, alcohol is legal.
Yes, but I can sit by a person who is having a drink, and it doesn't affect me until he gets into his car and drives into somebody or loses his temper, etc. I would have to smell the pot, and I don't want to do that. If you do it by yourself or sit around with a group of buddies and contemplate things, nobody will likely bother you while you're doing it in the privacy of your home.
How so? Not everyone that smokes a joint on Saturday night is a high school kid or a college student. Try to see through the stereotypes. Do you really think all that weed grown/imported into the US is used by kids or lefties.
I am proof that it is not true. I have smoked pot most of my adult life and never voted for a democrat. My dad (USAF pilot)was an alcoholic and got sober when he was 47. I never drank. He and I had a little talk one day. He asked to try some weed. He could not feel the effects because they were so mild compared to alcohol...and it was very strong stuff. I asked him why he drank. He said because it was fun and he liked to get high. I said "that's it exactly. Same here, different drug." He got sober because he realized it had taken over his life and destroyed his family and his career. He was not religious but accepted that AA and the 12 step program was the only way he could do it. He became active in AA and founded 2 chapters. He was sober 28 years until he died at age 75. We share the determination for sobriety late in life. I am sober now and have been for some time, and there have been other occaisions when I have been sober for years. I think it is foolish to think that smoking pot is not bad for your health. It is irrelevant to try to decide if it is as bad or not as bad as cigarettes. I also believe that things that you do and the reasons that you do them change as you age. Alcohol and cigaretts are legal, and they are both demonstrated to be addictive and detrimental to your health. They are also mulit-billion dollar industies with entrenched constutencies that resist prohibition and promote prohibition of competing choices. People like to get high and have fun. Drug laws are in need of serious, sober review without hysterical sloganeering. There is a gangster subculture associated with drugs that is reminiscent of the gangster culture of the alcohol prohibition years. Pot should be legalized, regulated and taxed. Cocaine and heroin and pcp and LSD and estacy (sic?) should be illegal and the dealers vigorously prosecuted, while the users should be remanded to treatment programs.
And, Liberaltarianism is the virus that perverts Conservatism.
Thanks for being the irrelevant 2% of the political population.
THC is highly adictive and has a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde effect on some people. No drugs are safe unless used in moderation.
I think pot should be legal. It is indeed bad for you, but so are many things in this world.
Alchohol is clearly a more dangerous drug than pot. You can get so drunk in a couple of hours that you can't even stand up, or worse, you die of alchohol poisoning.
You can't overdose on pot, it's impossible. You can only get so stoned, no matter how much pot you smoke. Which blows out of the water the whole arguement about the BC Bud being so dangerous because of the high THC content. If you have strong pot it just means you smoke less.
Look at tobacco and the hundreds of thousands of people it kills each year, yet it's legal. How can the government say that pot is too dangerous to legalize, yet the two legal recreational drugs we have today kill so many?
Up top the article mentioned that pharmaceutical companies came up with Marinol for sick patients as a replacement for pot. Drug company to patient: "Don't smoke pot, that stuff is dangerous, but here ya go, take this THC pill instead. Is it good for you? Who knows, but Marinol is our synthetically made THC which is patented, which means we make money when you take this. We don't make money when you smoke pot because we can't patent a plant. So remember, unpatented drugs that you take are bad for you because we don't get our cut. Got it? Great!"
"It assist in dividing, isolating and dumbing down America"
Ok, lets try that again, How So? Just making the statement means nothing, explain your statements.
Agreed and anyone can be addicted to anything to an extreme if they have an addictive personality. Its to bad there is virtually no education to the public on the effects of marijuana while at the same time many wanting to make it legal. The side many don't want to see is the business end. To make it legal would mean it would have to have a filter on it with a lower THC content. Many people would be upset with their new high they receive bringing me back to my original point of addiction.
Are they isolating because of marijuana use or because of an institutionalized sobriety industry that needs to feed its own addiction to court mandated profits.
You wouldn't collect one of these paychecks would you?
And just how do you tax Water Sunshine and Dirt? This is why it is still "Illegal"/UnTaxable.
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Visual signs of long-term pot smoking are poor motor coordination, uncontrolled laughter, a lag or hesitation between thoughts, and unsteady hands. At one time, these were all thought to be short-term side effects--now known in many cases to be long-term with frequent use, according to a 1968 study by researchers W.H. McGlothin and L.J. West, published in the Hazelden booklet mentioned above. Other linked side effects include a symptom called amotivational syndrome, in which people become passive, apathetic, unmotivated, hedonistic, unconcerned about the future, unable to make plans and increasingly introverted.
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