Posted on 01/07/2014 2:37:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
It is one of the many results of society being dumbed down into accepting absolutely everything
Depends on whether it becomes just a normal thing like having a beer. If it does, it may hurt productivity. Ironic as China was also once hobbled by substance abuse. If only they had all still been on opium, they might not have bothered to do the Long March.
We could start a rumor that the Chinese intend to outlaw Doritos.
Scarborough was correct in his simple analysis. Yes, I know many people who have smoked pot, particularly as youth. But any adult I know who is a regular pot-smoker I do find to be unemployable, lazy morons.
It’s been one long downhill slide since alcohol was legalized.
The great downfall of the U.S. has already happened, while pot has been illegal everywhere.
The idea that pot legalization will be a major factor in China’s overtaking of America seems pretty hard to consider that seriously. The fundamental issue is how many of our manufacturing jobs they have, how effectively they are building up their military under everyone’s noses, including those who are trusted to keep track of all the nations’ armies and how much of our debt is owed to them. At the moment, the proof is not really there that legalizing weed will lead to a mass decrease in productivity any more than legalizing alcohol did after prohibition. Committed weed users have often been using it anyway regardless of its legality. Many an American between the ages of 18-30 can asses how easy it is to get the stuff even when it is supposedly illegal.
Do you really think it was wrong to make alcohol legal and end prohibition? Are you aware that prohibition is widely recognized as a dismal failure by reliable, rational analysts on all sides of the political spectrum?
So many don’t care about crap anymore. Just their big fat guts, their genitals and dope.
Uhh... The Chinese have Obama in president you know? They don’t need a nation of potheads with Obama.
Pot has an effect that seems difficult to pinpoint, yet is evidenced in the ancient Cannabis cultures of the Middle East and that portion of the orient and in the modern awareness about the extraordinary uniformity of “potheads”, the use of pot so suddenly seems to create a somewhat new person, and not for the better.
The alcohol based West has always rejected Cannabis as an intoxicant, for thousands of years it has done so. From the Greeks to the Crusaders, and up until just the last 20 or 40 years, cannabis was seen as a threat to what Western man aspired to be.
I know a lot of people in very prominent business positions who are regular consumers of marijuana. I don’t find them unemployable, lazy morons, but I will say that I believe every single one of them could be living up to a MUCH higher standard and work ethic.
I know I am personally capable of great and amazing things. That’s been proven in my current role as an engineer, as I am seen as the senior to all of my peers and consistently referenced for in depth analysis. When I was smoking pot 5 - 10 years ago, I had that same potential, but as a regular user, there’s no way I would’ve ever achieved it.
I believe it makes the dumb into morons, the average into the unmotivated, and the intelligent into the uninspired. It takes us down a notch, and with a serious intellectual and intelligence deficit in this country, we don’t need drugs exacerbating an already poor situation.
It seems even just writing about marijuana turns people into slack-jawed adolescents.
Doe sit make people that much more unproductive than those who use significant amounts of alcohol or tobacco on a regular basis? I do not think there is much reliable info and truly objective studies on this. I think drugs of any kind inhibit people from achieving their true potential.
We will make good slaves.
What does this article have to do with China?
In other words, prohibition succeeded in its stated aims, although it generated other problems along the way. To say it was a "dismal failure" is to deny history, not that many partisans haven't done so. It was a political failure, eventually, which is why it was repealed.
If alcohol was discovered or invented today, and all its negative effects were known, including thousands of deaths every year, do you think it would be legalized?
I think anti depressants are doing more harm to our society than Pot but being stoned does not help anyone be productive. Damn sure yup.
We have too much government for our own good.
/johnny
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