That's absurd--by orders of magnetude. Alcohol destroys 10s of thousands of lives every year. Nothing that can be scientifically attributed to marijuana, either when it was legal, or now, remotely matches the distructive track record of alcohol.
Pot demotivates people. It makes them non-ambitious. Content to stay in one station in life. It's effects on a wide scale tend to stagnate and rot society and culture,
You mean like the United States was demotivated, between the civil war, and WWI, when marijuana was legal, and the US became the economic engine of the world? I'll be darned.
especially a culture built upon hard work and free enterprise, like American culture. For whatever reason, alcohol doesn't do this
Alcohol doesn't demotivate people, eh? Fascinating. What hallucinatory, chicken-hearted balderdash. The Republic is not at risk from marijuana. What do you think the founding fathers, some of whom grew marijuana, would think of this incredible, cowardly fear of an herb?
George Washington, who grew marijuana, would be astonished to hear that the freedom he fought for, turned out to be the right of federal authorities to tell everyone what they can put in their mouths. You have a lot of nerve to be trying to claim the american culture/free enterprise high ground for communist ideas like controlling what people can put in their bodies, for the good of the state.
Well, he grew hemp, but whatever. George Washington also owned slaves. What's your point?
Ever heard of the '60's and 70's? Social unrest? The fabric of society unraveling? Do you think maybe widespread drug use, including marijuana, had anything to do with that period of history? I think so.
You mean like the United States was demotivated, between the civil war, and WWI, when marijuana was legal, and the US became the economic engine of the world? I'll be darned.
Yeah, when only social deviants and those on the fringes of that great society smoked pot. Those were the days. I hope to return to that time when only social deviants and the stupid smoke pot or advocate it's legalization.
George Washington, who grew marijuana, would be astonished to hear that the freedom he fought for, turned out to be the right of federal authorities to tell everyone what they can put in their mouths.
Yeah yeah yeah. Everyone who smokes pot thinks that everyone else smokes pot too. Betsy Ross's flag was made of hemp..blah blah blah. Liberals just love to rewrite history, or at least spin it to their advantage.