Oh for the sake of God give it up. There is a good reason why pot has been on the fringes of society and culture for well...forever! Yes, there are negative physical consequences but more importantly it's damaging in mentally, emotionally and spiritually in ways that alcohol is not.
There's not some grand conspiracy to keep pot underground. It's a simple recognition over thousands and thousands of years that humans and pot are NOT a good combination.
It stunts the emotional and spiritual growth of people. Stops it dead in it's tracks. Legalize it and we have a whole generation in arrested development. A whole generation of idiots stuck at 14 or 15 or 16 years old or whenever they first started smoking dope.
It's EXACTLY why we have leftist thought dominating our government and society...because a bunch of idiot, hippy, dope smoking potheads ARE in charge and are perpetually stuck in an adolescent mindset and figure that their mindset is good for the country.
SEX DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL is the policy of our government and culture.
“There’s not some grand conspiracy to keep pot underground. It’s a simple recognition over thousands and thousands of years that humans and pot are NOT a good combination.”
Western society, in general, has not embraced pot usage throughout it’s development and history. On the other hand, pot has a long history of use in Eastern/Islamic cultures.
It stunts the emotional and spiritual growth of people. Stops it dead in it’s tracks.
...you can, of course, cite the appropriate studies to back that statement...
“Arrested development”
Exhibit A: Seth Rogen. Imagine everyone like that. Tweeting selfies of their bungholes.
On second thought, no, don’t imagine that. Talk about dain bramage.
It has actually been an integral part of human civilization for most of history. It has followed the greatest civilizations and traders all around the world. At one point fields of it grew in every part of the world except the poles. Hemp is the most abundant source of fiber, oil, plant protein (the ONLY plant with complete protein) and medicinal compounds in the world. There are hundreds of known compounds in hemp that are directly symbiotic with the human body. It has been used in medicine for thousands of years and is unlike any other plant. Companies like Merck and Bayer began extracting and patenting it in the 19th century. The US government encouraged the growing of hemp through WWII and even gave subsidies.
My grandmother spoke of entire fields of it in Ukraine and couldn't believe it is illegal now. And yes, many many people smoked the tops. It was just considered very cheap tobacco with a kick and nobody cared. Tops were most commonly used in preparations by midwives for nearly every single birth in the villages.
Show me one historic document that shows it to be bad or evil. Most documents paint it quite positively. The truth is people have been using various grasses in their surroundings (smoking, eating, cooking) since the beginning of time. It was JUST A PLANT AND NOBODY CARED until the ludicrous 'reefer madness' propaganda campaign came along.
"There's not some grand conspiracy to keep pot underground. It's a simple recognition over thousands and thousands of years that humans and pot are NOT a good combination."
The conspiracy is to make and keep making MONEY. Numerous entrenched special interests were threatened by mechanized hemp production that began in the early 1930s (with the invention of the decorticator). Prohibition came soon in 1937. The prohibition of hemp was one of the greatest examples of government corruption ever seen. The reason they called it by the mongrel word "marihuana" was to pass the law without people knowing it is hemp. It was not even billed as a prohibition, only a tax. However, they never issued the tax stamps.
Ho do you explain all the deception in this bill? How do you explain the obvious false testimony from the government experts claiming to do experiments that are impossible and obviously lying about the drugs effects? It was obviously a bought-and-paid-for, carefully crafted, corrupt, underhanded law made purely to serve special interests.
Today, the conspiracy continues to prop up the law enforcement industry, connected dealers, alcohol companies and big pharma (who are the true dope dealers slowly making it mandatory to give addictive dope to your kids in school).
"It stunts the emotional and spiritual growth of people. Stops it dead in it's tracks. Legalize it and we have a whole generation in arrested development. A whole generation of idiots stuck at 14 or 15 or 16 years old or whenever they first started smoking dope."
How do you know this for a fact when not ONE study of twin humans or animals has shown any long-term difference when using pot? Not ONE study has shown any direct observation of brain changes.
What if people with arrested development, laziness, etc are simply more likely to abuse pot publicly and it doesn't actually cause it?
The law also changes your perception of the average pot consumer. I know many very successful people who have used it daily for decades but they can't say so in public due to the law.
We know for a fact that people with mental illnesses are several times more likely to be heavy tobacco smokers. Does that mean tobacco causes mental illness? No, it simply shows a correlation.
"It's EXACTLY why we have leftist thought dominating our government and society...because a bunch of idiot, hippy, dope smoking potheads ARE in charge and are perpetually stuck in an adolescent mindset and figure that their mindset is good for the country."
No, it is because the entire government is corrupt and their only goal is take our money at all costs. The "left", "right", etc issues are manufactured with the help of media to make 50% of the population feel like they won each election while they take turns robbing all of us. They repeat every 4-8 years, the next special interests get their turn at the trough and they all laugh at us fighting.