Posted on 01/12/2014 9:26:07 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
He was in high school and quite brilliant. The kind of kid who didn't pick up a book all year and aced all of his honors and AP tests -- in complex subjects like Physics. He was also musically gifted. But he couldn't stop smoking weed. The school and his parents did all they could; he even took up sports so he wouldn't go home after school and smoke.
The more he smoked, the more he slacked off, the less frequently he attended class, did his work, and participated in class. They finally expelled him.
He was last seen walking on 101 in the wee hours of the morning on meth, punching and flailing at the police who pulled over to see if he was okay. ----- I typed his papers in college -- mostly for his philosophy and intellectual history classes. It's how I earned extra cash. He'd call me up -- completely wasted -- at the last minute and ask me to type his works of art, works of brilliance. He'd really nailed it this time. He was admittedly bright, but years of smoking dope left his brain all a jumble and his papers unintelligible -- a collection of disparate fragments scribbled on several sheets of paper. I'd try to edit the papers so they'd make sense but it was futile to get inside his muddled thoughts. In his mind, though, he was onto something big, his thoughts coherent and his papers exceptional. ----- My German professor wanted to help me clean up my senior thesis but had to toke up before he could sit down for a few hours and help. He needed a spliff to work on anything academic. But... he wasn't addicted. ------
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A federal system is supposed to be a system that allows experimentation, if the voters choose it. I have no problem with this.
Sorry. I am a bit of a zealot.
Really?
Because the potheads might be your or someone else's sons or daughters and you love them.
Kids already smoke pot. They wouldn’t be getting it legally anyway. There is an age limit for “legal” pot use.
It’s quite alright. I don’t drink or do any drugs. I just don’t care if other adults smoke pot.
Oh please.
Let’s stop pretending that there was never any pot in Colorado before it was legalized. Or any other state, or country, for that matter.
It’s used, widespread, on a daily basis by a significant segment of the entire population, even people that work, and society hasn’t collapsed yet.
1. On the one hand, I can see why a government would maintain a public interest in protecting its citizens from destructive things like narcotics.
2. On the other hand, a government in a free nation has no business legislating what people can or cannot ingest into their own bodies.
I've finally just decided that I don't really care one way or another. If someone wants to get strung out on something, then that's fine with me -- as long as they show up for work on Monday morning and don't make themselves a burden on anyone else.
I guess we’ll find out.
And, ya ya ya.... it is illegal. Certainly didn't prevent people before. Only now MORE people will be using. The stigma is gone.
But hey, its illegal for kids so the kids shouldn't be smoking anyway. /sarc
Of the four dopeheads I knew from high school days, two died thanks to their “habit,” and the remaining two have become slow-witted dullards whose conversations are peppered endlessly with “uh...uh...uh’s” and harbor laughable delusions of great intellect.
But that’s America circa-2014 for you. A rotting, decaying nation of dopeheads and degenerates.
If smoking cigarettes is deadly because it causes lung cancer, then smoking unfiltered joints is worse. There are tars in the pot and the pot smoker tends to hold the smoke in the lungs much longer than the smoker of cigarettes does. I would not use the example of cigarette smoking to bolster my claim that pot smoking is less harmful.
Because pot-heads can vote.
I have a theory — it is designed to pacify the population.
A drugged population is easy to manipulate and control.
Exactly. Ironic how cities that ban cigarettes are considering allowing pot.
It should be interesting to see this play out and how the bureaucrats try to explain it away.
Republicans/limited government conservatives should be asking the right questions about government, not pot! *rolls eyes* I mean -- I think the new-age alcoholism is about the least of the problems facing us. Yeeesh.
Outlaw alcohol, outlaw pot -- outlaw guns on the same principle. Blaming pot or alcohol for somebody going totally sideways, is like blaming a gun for a shooting. The government has very, very little place in it
You say more, I disagree.
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