[AuH2ORepublican]

Can pot be “used in moderation”? I thought that a single puff can get you high, thus affecting your reasoning? (I’ve never tried it, nor would I ever do so, but I have plenty of friends who have smoked pot and they all claim that it affects you immediately.) You certainly need more than a sip of wine to affect your brain.

For millennia, the most advanced civilizations in the world have enjoyed alcohol in moderation. There is no similar tradition for use of other drugs. I would never advocate legalizing the recreational use of mind-altering drugs. But then again, I also think that drunkenness, which denies a person of the reasoning ability that is God’s gift to mankind, should be illegal. (If that makes me a bad conservative, tough titties.)

[Georgia Girl 2]

“I’ve never tried it, nor would I ever do so, but I have plenty of friends who have smoked pot”

Uh Huh. :-)

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Can pot be “used in moderation”? I thought that a single puff can get you high, thus affecting your reasoning? (I’ve never tried it, nor would I ever do so, but I have plenty of friends who have smoked pot and they all claim that it affects you immediately.) You certainly need more than a sip of wine to affect your brain.”

I am on the fence on pot legalization.
In a vacuum it seems like a bad idea but as a substitute for alcohol it has its pluses and its minuses, and your minus has legitimacy. Plus its hard for cops to prove with drivers.
But alcohol has many minuses too that pot doesn't have.

I always post ‘no’ on threads lowering the legal age for drinking, it was 18 when I turned 18 and it wasn't pretty.
Of course most of those same kids under 18 drinking back in those days smoked pot too,

[Impy]

Can pot be “used in moderation”? I thought that a single puff can get you high, thus affecting your reasoning?

I guess so yeah, but what I meant was don't use it heavily. Chronic, daily use is clearly very bad. My dad's tenant lost his job, we think because he was high on the job, then he stopped paying rent but of course could still afford the weed, cigarettes, liquor, and Direct TV.

And certainly the smoke is harmful, it's proponents say it's not as bad as tobacco, some experts say it's worse because it is indeed unfiltered and is smoked differently.

As for the drinking age, I philosophically just don't agree with drinking (or gambling for that matter) having a higher age threshold than every other right of adulthood. Just doesn't make sense to me.

I've been REALLY drunk only once, hated it. Not something I'd care to repeat.