State-Sanctioned Chemical Dependency

Townhall.com ^ | December 27, 2020 | Jeff Davidson

[fishtank]

Soma nations are slave nations.

[fishtank]

Yes, it’s “soma”, not “some”.

[The_Media_never_lie]

More national insanity.

[Jeff Chandler]

Do most heavy pot smokers have the funds to maintain their habit? How many are deep in debt?

They could grow their own product. Unfortunately, Long-term use of marijuana has been found to impact the quality of life of some users, who suffer from poor judgment . . . low ambition

[ronnie raygun]

Dumb and numb, an inebriated society is a docile society. Between the rot in the education system and the legalized drugs their dependent masses are achieved

[rarestia]

Marijuana does not create a physiological chemical dependency like alcohol. It can form psychological dependency quickly, but there’s no withdrawal from marijuana like there is from alcohol.

[rarestia]

Yes. Most dictatorships, now and in the past, allowed the populace to partake in mind altering drugs. It makes life under tyranny just a tad more tolerable. Case in point: north Korea.

[Jolla]

In the old days I smoked at a cost of $200 per month, now with vape about $80.

[DoodleBob]

What's with the writer? He bashes pot...and alcohol...and tobacco. Why not corn flakes and ice cream, too? After all, anything used beyond moderation can be damaging.

Is he aware that Prohibition failed? Or, better yet, if it required a Constitutional Amendment to ban booze, why are we letting Leviathan ban marijuana without such an Amendment? Where in the Constitution is there an enumerated power granted to the Legislature to ban the sale of any good?

Just what is the writer's point?

[Theophilous Meatyard III]

Soma: “the body as distinct from the soul, mind, or psyche”

[marktwain]

Smoking tobacco is chemical dependency as well.

When does personal choice enter in?

[gundog]

Dependency and choice are in conflict. Throw in denial and rationalization, and addicts are a mess.

[Mister Da]

“Worse, marijuana use can impair driving...”

Yeah, like when you find you are going 25mph in a 40mph zone.

[vpintheak]

I’ve had turd-head idiots fly past me when riding my motorcycle, that had the stink of weed wafting from their car. I go at least 60-65. Pisses me off in a bad way.

[NobleFree]

“Dependency and choice are in conflict.”

Not all use leads to dependency.

[NobleFree]

“Just what is the writer’s point?”

I couldn’t tell either. With his detailed discussion of alcohol abuse, perhaps the implied point is that any rational discussion of intoxicant policy must look at the spectrum of widely used intoxicants?

[gundog]

I am aware.

[Truthoverpower]

Snore

Edibles rule.

Cannibis has been with man as long as ethanol

Wine 🍷 is in the Bible. Numerous times

If it ain’t your thing. Great. but ,

DONT LECTURE US WITH YOUR CONDESCENDING GARBAGE 🗑

[NobleFree]

“When a company, let alone an entire industry, reaps huge profits from repeat, high-volume users, it’s exceedingly tempting to not [sic] turn those users away, or, at the least, encourage them to indulge a bit less.”

Ignore that puzzling “not” and I think the author’s point is revealed.

I’m open to hearing proposals on how excessive users can be curbed without burdening moderate users ... but no workable scheme leaps to mind.