Posted on 02/22/2010 6:57:32 AM PST by JoeProBono
MIAMI - In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana.
Long a fixture among young people, use of the country's most popular illicit drug is now growing among the AARP set, as the massive generation of baby boomers who came of age in the 1960s and '70s grows older.....
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No, but I know what pot has done first hand to my son. It has lied to him and told him it can calm him down, makes him withdrawl from life! He likes to use that same argument about booze. I disagree in making pot legal.. ever! Plus I am not a square, I was raised in the 60’s but left it in the 60’s. And yesh, alchol does effect lives in a negative way when people abuse it. Sad when that happens as well.
Hippies and druggies that survived still alive.
Would be interesting to take a look into the history of these people to see how often they were on the system or in jail.
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So your basis for a law is that YOU don’t like it. You don’t think alchohol should be illegal even though you concede that it has also been the tool that people have used to ruin their lives.
That is not a valid way to determine someone else’s freedom.
By the way, “pot” hasn’t done anything to your son. Your son has done these things and handed you the excuse of pot. You accepted that excuse as reasonable.
Have you ever smoked it?
It’s not like alcohol at all in really any way.
Yes, he’s in Australia these days.
From my experience dealing with both potheads and the lazy, pot does NOT cause laziness. Its just that lazy people like to develop a friendship with Mary Jane, just as they have a close relationship with their television sets.
Owsley - Still around.
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Off the grid and selling art. Very expensive.
“Its just that lazy people like to develop a friendship with Mary Jane, just as they have a close relationship with their television sets.”
Well said.
I think its awsome. She made it 88 years and likes to do a bong hit while reading the paper. So what? Good for her.
Would that be bad?
Or the other way around by some folks...
Sounds like he has a problem. Are you sure it’s the pot’s fault?
This is strictly anecdotal, but a number of the angry Dems I know at work admitted to me that were heavy dopers in their past. I know only one conservative co-worker who has anger issues. He’s also very fond of grass.
Some people are potaholics. A bit here and there just doesn’t work for them. The same is true for alcohol. Your unfortunate personal story doesn’t change my opinion.
I didn’t say it was like alcohol in any way.
In fact, I know for certain it is not.
I would argue it is no more destructive than drink.
It’s much worse than alcohol which is why it’s illegal.
I recognize that the War on Drugs also has negative side effects, but I part ways with the Libertarians on this -- I think society has a positive interest in helping people avoid lives of substance abuse. It's not a victimless crime (and legalizing these things won't change that).
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