Key sponsors Speedo, Omega back Michael Phelps after apology for marijuana pipe photo

I don’t believe God punishes us for our actions on Earth. We have Saints that did horrible things before they was saved. What I believe what God does is show us what we did on Earth and how they affected others and judge us from how we react. If you discovered that a joint you bought years ago indirectly got someone killed and you was very regretful in your heart for your action then I believe God forgives.

On the other hand “Well it isn’t my fault, the government should of legalized it” I don’t think will fly.

**I know how supply chains work, so I don’t merely think but KNOW that the murder example you’re using is at least six degrees separated from the guy smoking a joint.**

I am really interested on how you “KNOW”. I don’t recall drug dealers setting up their system based on Harvard Business School tactics.

But no joint I bought ever indirectly caused anything, not to the layers you’re looking at. I bought from some guy, who bought from some other guy, on and on until you get to some drug cartel that might or might not have been in some war with some other drug cartel. I didn’t tell them to get into a war, and I didn’t make the drugs illegal which created the black market that spawned the cartels, I spent $1 on a joint.

Supply chains work the way they work for reasons that have nothing to do with Harvard Business School. The cartels that get into wars can’t ber bothered with selling dime bags to high school kids. They sell hundreds of kilos to smugglers, who then sell to some guy that’s going to part them out into smaller units for resale, and smaller units again, and again, and probably again, and then finally some high school kid is buying a joint. Million dollar guys aren’t interested in $10 sales, and $10 sales guys don’t have the resources to participate in million dollar sales.

If you’re going to eat all the guilt for everybody on every supply chain in your life you’re going to be doing a lot of praying. Because every supply chain for everything you have ever purchased, has some immoral SOB doing nasty things to kids in it. There’s bad people in the world with legit jobs too, they don’t just work for drug cartel. Collective guilt, like all other forms of collectivism, is just silly.

"...how many of the joint smoking Freepers and general population really grow their own?..."

Dude, it's so easy a caveman could do it. And to do it really well requires only the caveman and a little Miracle Gro. Not that I've ever done it, mind you, but if you can master the concept of "lights on for 12 hours, lights OFF for 12 hours", you can easilyhave prize-winners come spring. Envision the equivalent of the giant pumpkin competition in Half Moon Bay, CA.

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