 Dude! |
Posted on 03/18/2013 7:39:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
Our Nation Rues the day of prohibition.
Key words... ‘I imagine...”
If we held to those standards, then those who drink wine with dinner should be held to the same level as the wino on the street.
That must have been an unusual school.
Dude! |
Reefer Madness was made by the same man who made Maniac (later billed as Sex Maniac) and bought Freaks from MGM.
You weaken your argument by treating the films of Dwain Esper and Don Sonney etc. as principled indictments of depravity. They were exploitation filmmakers (one step away from carnival barker) showing glimpses of t!ts and a$$ with "moral" lessons to be learned by the roadshow audiences. They even screened sex ed films to segregated audiences (complete with birth of a baby sequences) and pumped noxious fumes so that patrons could "see" the "shocked" and "nauseous" audiences who'd witnessed their overhyped bits of four walled entertainment.
Iceberg Slim must’ve been wrong on marijuana too. He said it made his prostitutes too lazy to go to work.
It was from the 1930s. And Esper tried to litigate when some people were screening his film for midnight screenings without paying him. He also got crapped on by MGM who now claim that they merely "leased" him Freaks (they threw the negative in the ocean, and now release HIS edited version with HIS "warning" screen roll tacked on to theatrical and home video releases).
From the Elmore Leonard film Jackie Brown:
You smoke too much of that shit, that shits gonna rob you of your ambition...
Not if your ambition is to get high and watch TV...
As our society spirals downward into wider tolerance and defence of every form of sexual immorality, infanticide, drug use the citizenry bemoans the dishonesty and lawlessness of the institutions of church, government, academia and news media, yet many, like the “free to use drugs is freedom” crowd cannot see the connection between the two, action and result.
Is there a study that quantifies how many people use cocaine before any other substances?
And without legalizing cocaine and heroin, there will still be illicit drug trade.
Even with legal alcohol sales, there are still home distillers who face tax revenuers.
(A) the culture CELEBRATES its use.
(B) why dissuade use if there are no health implications, drains on productivity, or other negative effects? It's like abortion, right? Just some dead tissue, no shame in doing it.
Meanwhile MAAD seeks neo-prohibition of alcohol (and has been since the 1980s) and smoking nazis/lawyers/states have targeted tobacco for big financial shakedowns for decades as well.
A bit late to think that pot or anything else can be legalized without total restriction, prohibition on its actual use. Employers can even prohibit employees from smoking tobacco in their non-working hours. Would doping be akin to homosexuality? A lifestyle choice above such discrimination?
There is no work ethic anymore.
Gimme gimme gimmes want it all. Without cost.
Going to be $20,000,000,000,000 in debt with no one wanting to “pay their share”.
Although I’ve never bothered with it, I did know that it was popular among dopers.
I know some people in the school system. Maybe I can find out if it’s still in their film library!
If it’s the same why not just stay legal and have a glass of wine?
Could be, but it has the sound of being something more connected to an individual, like, perhaps the principle came across it and thought that it would make an impression on the kids, I would be surprised if it was district wide, or was shown annually for class after class.
It is not a harmless drug......
Many intelligent, very successful people consume it and you would never guess.
Just curious: How many do you know who are married (i.e., to someone of the opposite sex), go to church, and have more than two children?
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