Brave New World
The current opiate of the masses isn’t working well enough anymore, short of legalizing Opiates, they are pushing to legalize pot...
Is it wise for us better people to allow the commoners to decide whether to smoke pot? Was it wise for us to allow them to keep and bear arms?
What kind of world do we live in where we can no longer let our toddlers eat the stuff they find on the ground?
Not a world *I* want to live in.
APf
I thought pot took 3 to 4 months to grow. How did these stores have pot within a few hours of the law taking effect?
“the child had eaten a cookie from the ground outside the family’s apartment”
Yeah. Right. Pot cookies coat the ground of Colorado like manna from heaven now. These parents just didn’t want to admit the kid got into their pot cookies and be charged with child abuse.
Found it on the ground . . . riiiiight.
A child was shot just the day before CCW went into effect. Come on. You may not like certain laws but these stretches are not worth acknowledging.
Truthfully, the best approach to children about marijuana is surprisingly simple, clear, and easy to understand for them. And it is very persuasive to convince them to rarely, if at all, use marijuana.
Tell them that there are indeed therapeutic benefits to some sick people, which is true, and yes, it is often used as a recreational drug. However, if you use it too much, or too often, you get nailed with its one big side effect.
It makes you stupid. Dull. Boring. It takes the edge off life and makes people drab. They no longer want to do fun things. They no longer have a sharp wit. Their creativity is muddled. They lose their initiative.
And, not ironically, if you ask them, they will admit to this.
One of the most effective anti-drug songs ever recorded was a cheery-sounding lament called “Because I got high”. In it, he complains of things, ordinary and important, he didn’t do because he was high on marijuana, and how it has ruined his life. (Some NSFW lyrics). This includes:
Not cleaning up his room.
Failing classes at school.
He lost a promising job.
He didn’t go to court so lost his entire paycheck to child support.
He ran from the police and was beaten and crippled.
He lost his car from not making payments.
He lost his girlfriend.
He lost his home and now sleeps on the sidewalk.
He says he is high now and is even screwing up his song.
Good thing the kid found a pot cookie rather than a whiskey bottle - the whiskey would have killed him while the pot never would.
Bravo Sierra
Doctors figured out what was wrong pretty quick after the kid kept repeating “Dave’s not here man”.
I’m sorry, I can’t agree with all the worries about marijuana. If anyone here is ideologically consistent enough to say that alcohol should also be illegal, I can respect that. But ok..a kid got some pot cookie. When I was a kid I stole sips from the liquor cabinet. Most kids did. Or stole some beers for a party. Got drunk in high school, etc. All in all, deaths and injuries and lives ruined from alcohol far outweigh those from marijuana. The only difference is...we’re used to alcohol being around and readily available. I think adults should be able to use it if they want. Have some regulations on it, issue some warnings, etc., but keep out of private usage. We can certainly spend a few billion dollars less on locking up non violent pot growers and smokers, I think.
Pot is for slaves.
Yeah, this is NOT a good thing but what can you do but note the increases in auto and home accidents that’s going to result from this new “freedom”?