“I’m not particularly interested in this discussion, because I don’t smoke pot.”
No wonder our children are dunces. I’m interested because these laws have had huge social consequences over almost the entire course of my life. If you don’t see that, then you’re not qualified to be bad-mouthing more perceptive individuals.
“People who don’t smoke it are not as passionate about it as people who do.”
The only thing here that I’m even a little passionate about is your petty, malicious attack on me after I doubted that you can infallibly identify pot smokers. You must have a lot of ego invested in that proposition, to behave so badly after such a mild disagreement.
“We don’t have anti-pot keychains, have all sorts of cute little words for it (Shout out to the Ents, yo), or get on a high horse when people criticize it, however gently.”
You need to be more careful when slinging around false accusations. Reflect that anyone can go back and read what I wrote. Those who do might wonder, as have I, what is this hysteric talking about?
“And my criticism was gentle.”
Yes, it was. I hardly even noticed it. I certainly didn’t react to it.
“I didn’t compare it to meth or heroin, or anything else. I just said it makes people so relaxed they don’t care about bettering themselves, and then the tax payer ends up paying for a lot of them.”
And I would argue that investigations, trials, imprisonments, and the other costs of prosecuting the war on drugs have been far more costly than the welfare etc. that potheads have collected. Worse, it has resulted in the erosion of our liberties.
Don’t want to spend money supporting potheads? I’m good with that. Have been for almost my entire life. I don’t want to spend money chasing and jailing them, either.
“And that it’s definitely not good for kids still in middle school.”
Of course not. Their brains are not finished developing yet. We don’t know what the effects might be, but it’s too big a chance to take.
“Although once people start defending pot, they can easily be lured into declaring that it’s better for 11 year olds than caffeine.”
I haven’t met whatever whackadoodles you’ve been talking to, but I’m not one of them, and you have neither right nor justification in making such accusations.
You are right about a number of things, but you are not right to think that your opinion is the only one that could have any validity. Men of good will can entertain other opinions.
“But potheads cannot bear even the mildest criticism. POT IS LIFE or you’re a fascist.”
I really don’t know what can have happened to you to distort your thinking like this, to make you see boogie-men where none exist, but you really need to get a grip.
I’m sorry, I’m not reading all of that. It’s a wall of text that says only “I must defend pot because... I must!” Because that is what pot does. You might as well have become a Scientologist.