Baby boomers fuel jump in pot use

Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 5/5/04 | Lindsey Tanner

[Wolfie]

See post #60. NIDA's playing fast and loose with the facts. No surprise, eh?

[CSM]

I don't expect consistency from any government agency, let alone with regards to the WOsD!

[metesky]

Generational animus is stupid and unproductive and smearing an entire generation with a broad brush is something only a simplistic child would do.

Both Klintoon and W are Boomers, the worst and the best.

How does one reconcile a universal slam? 58,000 dead Boomers in Vietnam.

[The kings dead]

Wow, great reason to increase the law enforcement against all things related to illegal drugs.

Yes, it's worked so well up to this point ....

[The kings dead]

Stick to drinking.

Acceptable if you don't get drunk while in public to get people hurt or at home while caring for kids.

So why is marijuana not acceptable so long as you don't get stoned while in public to get people hurt or at home while caring for kids?

[mongrel]

I'll agree with your point as soon as I see boomers develop as powerful a lobbying group as the AARP to accomplish social security reform.

Instead, boomers are joining in droves, whether they agree with the lobbying or not, to get the benefits.

Social security is the third rail in politics because no significant group of retirees or almost retirees will stand up to the others in the mostly selfish generation.

Painting with a broad brush is helpful in understanding trends. I don't think anyone on here is oversimplifying and saying that all members of a generation are the same. So the simplistic childish response (to use your words, BTW isn't that a form of generational animus?) is to discount larger trends and pretend they don't exist.

[metesky]

IMO, the SocSec thing is a neat little trap that the Rat's in Congress (with Pubbie help) created for many of us.

We all hate it, but at the same time we've paid in a small fortune over the years (45 years for me).

I'd take my chances without the piddling SS if it freed later generations from the onerous taxes that future years will require. They can even keep what I've paid in, I'd find money somewhere.

By the way, I despise the AARP. I think they keep sending their crap to me just for the entertainment value of my scorching replies.
;O)

[headsonpikes]

...help childern aviod this evil busines...

LOL!!

Kids - if you want to 'avoid evil', stay away from gubmint thugs!

[T.Smith]

"Instead, boomers are joining {AARP} in droves, whether they agree with the lobbying or not, to get the benefits."

So true!! My father, a hardcore conservative, is a member of AARP. I have tried and tried to explain to him the damage that group does, but all he will do is mumble about the benefits and change the subject. WTF?!?

[The kings dead]

My father, a hardcore conservative, is a member of AARP. I have tried and tried to explain to him the damage that group does, but all he will do is mumble about the benefits and change the subject.

Meaning no disrespect to your father, I must say it's easier to stick to your principles when it doesn't cost you anything. There are a lot of "conservative-buts" on FR: for smaller government except when it comes to guns, or drugs, or job protection, or ....

[Modernman]

So why is marijuana not acceptable so long as you don't get stoned while in public to get people hurt or at home while caring for kids?

I'm 28. Based on the people I know, marijuana seems to be treated like alcohol: if you use it and don't get violent or become a useless addict, nobody seems to care.

[The kings dead]

Nobody except "conservative" legislators.

[Skooz]

"Baby boomers fuel jump in pot use"

Duh.

I could have told them that. Hope they didn't spend too much money figuring this out.

[headsonpikes]

Just noticed your new tagline.

I was thinking that curtailing the 'freedom' to tax your betters could well be employed, without loss to the res publica.

[robertpaulsen]

Statistically, most pot smokers quit in their 30's.

Basically they grow up -- some don't.

[robertpaulsen]

"Why is it always called abuse?"

Because people smoke pot to get high.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Baby Boomers are the worst generation ever

This is a table full of baby boomers. So shut up, punk.

[robertpaulsen]

"It ain't the weed that that causes so many problems it's the illegality."

Hear, hear! Let's legalize pot so it can f' up as many lives as legal alcohol.

[The kings dead]

I was thinking that curtailing the 'freedom' to tax your betters could well be employed, without loss to the res publica.

Unfortunately, it's real freedoms he wants to curtail.

[The kings dead]

So if one drinks to alter one's mental state, one is abusing alcohol?