"WAAAAAAAAAH!!!! They get Alcohol! I want my WEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDD!!!!!"
Posted on 08/20/2014 10:40:32 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
I agree - the point is that whatever the harms of typical use, they're not so great as to have definitively shown up in medical studies. Vaporizers or edibles are certainly less unhealthy choices.
"WAAAAAAAAAH!!!! They get Alcohol! I want my WEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDD!!!!!"
"WAAAAAAAAAH!!!! They get Alcohol! I want my WEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDD!!!!!"
You continue to embarrass yourself to everyone but your Amen corner.
No morality subject. Got it. You busted, man.
So, find a better answer, yourself in your own domain, I don’t care, don’t push it on me as what is right to be legal when it comes with defining outcomes.
Remember that it was nanny liberals that pushed the drinking age to 21 and it did not do a damn thing to make anyone safer, all it did was force young adults into hiding, binge drinking, punishments, and fines.
Remember that it was nanny liberals that pushed the drinking age to 21 and it did not do a damn thing to make anyone safer, all it did was force young adults into hiding, binge drinking, punishments, and fines.
So, find a better answer, yourself in your own domain, I don’t care, don’t push it on me as what is right to be legal when it comes with defining outcomes.
Sorry, I don't speak whatever language that is.
You, stupid ass calling me a communist.
Thank you. That is exactly correct. It is not only a non-sequitur, it is a tu quoque argument. (That because someone else is doing wrong, I should be allowed to do so as well.)
It links justification to someone else getting away with wrongness. It is a childish argument. It is just a variation of "He did it too!"
Remember the Feds outlawed marijuana because any fool can grow a weed and it is easy to hide so it is almost impossible to tax. Alcohol distillation is and industrial process that is easy to control and tax, that is why it is legal and HIGHLY TAXED.
The only one making that argument is the voice in your head.
It’s relevant that being a social drinker enjoys alot more popularity, and thus political and cultural support. To try to equate pot with alcohol does not take into account the realities that either both must be legal or both must be illegal to be consistent. The prohibitions against alcohol and pot must be weighed against realities. Pot can and should be banned, alcohol cannot be nor should it be. That’s reality.
I’ve seen the addiction rate estimated upwards at one in six. So 9 - 16%.
What was the rate of 18-29 year olds? Or 25-29? Or college age usage?
Speaking from my own experiences, almost of my peers gave it up and for good reason and wish their kids had likewise never touched it.
Yep.
I knew guys in high school who were drunk.
They decriminalized butt sex in the privacy of ones home.
How is taking a toke any different?
I need the weed to combat my PTSD acquired in Vietnam. Otherwise it’s societally understood that I’d be a crazed, sociopathic killer.
How so?
The non sequitur aspect of it is this. Because Alcohol is legal, Pot should be legal.
The one statement does not follow from the other. The one statement is not a demonstrable proof of the other, and cannot be derived from the first statement, ere it "does not follow" and is a "non-sequitur". (Sequitur means in sequence. It is non sequential, meaning it is not part of a logical chain.)
It makes as much sense to say "Because Alcohol is legal, Opium should be legal." That also does not follow.
It's relevant to what the law is, but not to what it should be.
To try to equate pot with alcohol
Nobody "equates" them - but they can be compared.
does not take into account the realities that either both must be legal or both must be illegal to be consistent.
I thought that was a pot relegalizaation argument.
The prohibitions against alcohol and pot must be weighed against realities. Pot can and should be banned, alcohol cannot be nor should it be. That’s reality.
That's an opinion.
I’ve seen the addiction rate estimated upwards at one in six. So 9 - 16%.
What's the highest you've seen for alcohol? My scientific sources say alcohol is more addictive.
What was the rate of 18-29 year olds? Or 25-29? Or college age usage?
I gave you the URL.
Speaking from my own experiences, almost of my peers gave it up and for good reason and wish their kids had likewise never touched it.
I gave up alcohol for good reason and am glad my daughter has never touched it.
I appreciate you trying to talk sense into these nanny state drug warriors, but these brainwashed yahoos are immune to logic when it comes to this topic. The government told them that pot was bad bad bad and therefore we need MRAPS and urban assault squads in our local pds, so by gum we’re going to support that until we die even as we complain about an overbearing government. Because freedom is scary
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