Don't let the potheads ruin freedom

The Prometheus Institute ^ | 9/5/2006 | Editorial

[tang0r]

Generally, there are two types of marijuana users. First is the most commonly stereotyped “stoner,” depicted in the media of movies (e.g. Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High) and television (e.g. Shaggy from Scooby Doo). These are the dead-end job, ambitionless abusers who ingest marijuana to escape their already dismal lives. They represent the image which is most often associated with marijuana use. Certainly, the average American high school is teeming with similar directionless pot-smoking losers, further cementing this public perception.

[Vaquero]

Sorry I have to disagree. Pot is Dangerous and I have seen it.

To ironically quote the pedophilic Alan Ginsberg..."I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"

my favorite song describing Pot psychosis is:

Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues Lyrics
Artist: Randy Newman
Album: 12 Songs



Goin' down to the corner
Gonna have myself a drink
Goin' down to the corner
Gonna have myself a drink
'Cause that sh*t that we been usin'
Sure confuse my thinking
Gonna send out to the drugstore
Buy myself a goat
Tie him up in my front yard
For all my so-called friends to see
Ain't nobody gonna look in my window and laugh at me
I been up so long
That it looks like down to me
Please don't talk about to me when I'm gone
Baby, are you against me too?
Had a great idea the other night
Come-A-Ti-Yi-Yippie, baby
Look out
When the blue of the night meets the gold of the day
We love you
We love you
We love you

[Gordongekko909]

I've smoked up a few times (as in, fewer than five), and it did exactly the opposite of what it was supposed to do. I understand it's supposed to calm you down, right? Not me. I got jittery as all hell. It was teh suck.

On the upside, I had the best night's sleep ever when I went to bed afterwards.

[JamesP81]

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"

Ginsberg is wrong. Those minds destroyed themselves. No one made them smoke dope.

[KeepUSfree]

One of the more self-righteous, delusional posts I've ever read.

Let's just take 1 "minor" statistic.

How many people do you know that have died or had thier lives ruined due to alcohol?

How many due to pot (not every illegal drug...just pot)?

NOT ONE PERSON has ever died due to mariajuana poisoning.

Alcohol poisoning causes over 4,000 deaths per year.
Alcohol Poisoning

[antiRepublicrat]

Why not restrict booze and smokes to people who will pay an arm and a leg for it and use the proceeds for a tax cut on the middle class.

In general, the people who like sin taxes are not the same people who would give that money back to the people.

[Nathan Zachary]

At least you can notice when kids get into their parents booze, and access is limited. Not so with pot.
Plus, research shows that the brain of a teenager is undergoing an extreme growth/change, much like it does during the first few years of life. The brain looses much of it's unused brain cells during this period of change, and if a teenager is laying about "smoking his brains out", it may be a truer catch phrase than originally thought. Active brains (from studying/learning) retain more brain brain cells during this final development stage.

Pot should never be legalized, because it will just make it all the more socially acceptable. Another reason is that the government will tax the crap out of it, and regulate it. Illegal dealers will still be illegal, just as bootlegging is illegal.

[staytrue]

Alcohol poisoning causes over 4,000 deaths per year.

Alcohol abuse is a huge problem. But then alcohol usage is probably 10 times the level of pot use.

What percentage of the population drinks alcohol on occasion ? It is probably close to 95%. So alcohol deaths at 4000 is probably similar to pot deaths at 800 which is so small as to not get any notice.

[tacticalogic]

Pot is much stronger than it used to be, and leads more often than not to other drug use.

Then the stats for "other drug use" should come to more than half of the figures for pot use. If they don't someone is lying.

[DouglasKC]

While most of my Christian brothers and sisters will disagree with me, I don't think marijuana is as dangerous as alcohol. I know that we get tired of hearing that comparison, but it is accurate.

Actually James, marijuana is much worse than alcohol and ESPECIALLY for Christians.

Pot is insidious to ones spiritual life in that it smoking it generates "feelings" of spirituality that counterfeit true spirituality. Simply put, if one is smoking pot, they will never come to God because they're taking a shortcut to a stronger and more intense "spirituality". It is a type of spirituality they are accessing, but what it happening is that they are leaving themselves open to demonic influences, demonic spirituality, and Satan take advantage of that.

Potheads who think they are being "enlightened" or "inspired" are...by Satan:

2Co 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

[Nathan Zachary]

" How many due to pot (not every illegal drug...just pot)?"

Alot. Even more than Alcohol. Any other answer is delusional.
In fact I know MORE people who died from drug abuse than from drinking themselves to death.

You may THINK pot doesn't kill, but you are wrong. It effects judgement like any other drug which leads the user to take other drugs, or do something stupid resulting in death. You have no stats to back up your claim, because THC samples aren't taken like alcohol samples are.

[JamesP81]

Actually James, marijuana is much worse than alcohol and ESPECIALLY for Christians.

Of course it is. This is also why I said in a previous post that it's the responsibility of the Church to act as the conscience of the community, and teach everyone why this is dangerous and why they shouldn't do it. It is not the job of the government to do so and the reason it's such a problem in the community is because the Church has abdicated some of its social responsibilities. I find it interesting and disheartening that many of my Christian brothers and sisters on FR automatically associate my opposition to government intervention with support for immorality.

[Fighting Irish]

Mahvelous post.......

simply right on the stinking money

[pandoraou812]

lol. I don't remember much about it except wanting to eat munchies. Back when I smoked it we used to ride around looking for a place to get something to eat. I lived in a rural area. I do know most of the guys I knew who kept smoking it got fat though. And were very lazy. I have heard the prices sure have gone up since I smoked it too.

[Nathan Zachary]

Didn't you see the poll of youth who were asked if they lied on polls about drug use/drinking/smoking? Of course people lie about such things. Only the idiots brag about their drug abuse. You generaly don't have to ask them anyways, you can spot them a mile away.

[orionblamblam]

> But socialist governments love the idea of taxing addictive substances and recreational drugs

What, you mean like the proposed $30,000 "pot license?

[orionblamblam]

Then see post 19.

[robertpaulsen]

"I don't think marijuana is as dangerous as alcohol."

That is relevant only if you're implying that users would switch from alcohol to marijuana if marijuana was legal. Are you saying that? Do you have anything to back that up?

Now, if you're not saying that, then what's your point? Aren't we then just adding to the alcohol problem by legalizing yet another drug?

[Nathan Zachary]

" I have heard the prices sure have gone up since I smoked it too.

Those $20 an ounce days of the 70's are long gone. It's the same in the small toen i grew up in. Most of the pot heads left are fat,lazy and don't havwe much to show for their lifes work, the rest are dead or in prison.

[mysterio]

Your blog missed the point. The point is government has no right to prohibit this substance in the first place. It grows naturally in America, has medicinal benefits, was banned with lies, and has fueled a failed drug war that has accomplished little besides the dismantling of the Bill of Rights.

[tacticalogic]

Didn't you see the poll of youth who were asked if they lied on polls about drug use/drinking/smoking? Of course people lie about such things.

So how is it you know that more than half of them are going on to other drugs?