Clearly you've haven't read much about addiction, drug abuse, and that sort of thing. Those researchers who believe in the gateway theory pretty much universally agree that alcohol is a gateway drug. Read the Institute of Medicine studies. Shoot, go to the D.A.R.E. webpage or look at what the ONDCP has to say on the topic. A stretch? It's a stretch the majority who have studied the topic make.
And my gosh, there really aren't many if any drugs that lower inhibitions as much as alcohol. Nothing it seems can make really bad ideas seem like good ideas when you are under its’ spell than alcohol. How many people have woken up just kicking themselves for what they did in their drunken state the night before? If marijuana is legalized we may very well find out after time that alcohol is a worse gateway drug than pot.
I had a roommate who was divorced from his wife and received a limited visitation due to his life being dysfunctional as the result of his marijuana use.
He had his child every other weekend and the bastard had to get stoned before he picked his daughter up for the weekend.
You guys use the arguments that alcohol is legal and is bad and therefor we should make another drug, pot, that you admit is bad but not as bad, available to the public.
You give examples of the evils of alcohol and that somehow makes pot better.
Yup, that makes a lot of sense.
Actually, you have convinced me — make pot illegal. Maybe something a lot stronger is better. A permanent high would be perfect. The more people like you who are out of mainstream society, the better. We could ship you all to a farm. A happy druggie is a passive druggie.
What a shame. Because there are probably some really brilliant people who will never make great discoveries because they can't find their way out of their parent's basement.
Actually, that is what Soros is hoping for.