Posted on 01/13/2014 5:41:21 PM PST by SeekAndFind
It's starting to appear as if marijuana users have become the homosexual lobby of the chemically dependent. What do I mean? Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson could mention one sexual behavior (adultery) as disqualifying someone from the "kingdom of God," but mentioning that "other" sexual behavior? That's a boycottin', pardner! Likewise, there's no shortage of articles about the perils of smoking tobacco -- about how it causes lung cancer, emphysema and premature aging; about how it's a dirty, nasty habit -- all without indignant smokers crawling out of the woodwork to protest, between hacking coughs, that their passion is being unfairly demonized. But dare imply that inhaling copious amounts of marijuana smoke may not be one of Dr. Oz's top ten health recommendations, and, well, the potheads cometh.
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While most agree that casual drinking -- one or two drinks -- is fine and may even offer health benefits, it's universally acknowledged that drunkenness is destructive, ugly and reckless. In accordance with the old PSA, "If you have to drink to be social, it's not social drinking," it's accepted that if you have to get inebriated to deal with life, you have a problem.
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So I'll say that if you want to have one or two small puffs of a marijuana cigarette, fine. But you've crossed the line if you get high.
Deal?
This puts the lie to the alcohol/pot comparison. There are millions of casual drinkers who may have a beer or glass of wine with dinner but have no intention of getting tipsy. Except, however, for the few who use pot for legitimate medical purposes (and I'm dubious about the necessity of this, mind you), the goal of a marijuana smoker is ever and always to get high (drunk). The intention is always to alter his mental state.
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/johnny
The IRS is causing problems for innocents and you want to make ir bigger and fiercer.
I thought you said curtailing drug use is a bad thing.
/johnny
Exactly!! Pot smoking was way way out of the mainstream society. It was only during the rebellious 1960s that you had white kids starting to try out marijuana. Few blacks and Mexicans smoked it but you could find it in those communities.
It is a no-brainer to look at a little history and culture and confirm that alcohol is our intoxicant. Mentioned in the Bible too. Jesus turned water into wine, not into pot.
It's just none of the federal government's constitutional business.
/johnny
now that was one funny album….
It’s sad we’ve gotten to the point where any discussion of government action is assumed to mean the federal government. Even self-described “conservatives” seem to have fallen into the habit, forgetting we live in a republic and what that means.
well done
freepers like big bro when it suits them
it’s reefer madness here
/johnny
No I'm not, not at all. You seem to think that opposing one kind of injustice means being in favor of another... that's not me. Not by a long shot.
Everyone would be free not to smoke.
No can escape the wages of the war on drugs.
I agree. People are so used to saying “the government”. Which government? We have multiple branches and multiple levels.
I announce that in 5 years all Federal criminal drug laws will sunset. That will give the States plenty of time to pass any laws they chose.
Our “traditional” intoxicant is a bigger health problem, results in huge amounts of violence, is a major factor in family problems and results in over 25000 vehicular deaths a year. Ask any ER doc which drug is a bigger problem and more dangerous. But alcohol is legal as it should be adults should be allowed to make decisions about their own body. And LIKE WITH PROHIBITION the Cure is worse then the Disease.
Like it isn’t already.
Most people don't even realize that if all the federal drug laws disappeared overnight the drugs would still be illegal by their own state laws.
And some states will legalize. Then we can all stand back and watch to see if that state degenerates into reefer madness. Or not.
I drink one glass on wine; I feel it. Two glasses at a social occasion, I’m buzzed, chatty, at ease.
There’s a huge difference between buzzed and stupid drunk, falling down drunk, ugly drunk, puking drunk, fighting drunk, crying drunk, MVA drunk, passed out drunk, dead drunk.
Moderation in all things.
I have no desire to ingest marijuana in any form. I have a very strong desire to see the state back off from its quasi-military police, no-knock raids and forfeiture laws.
My father smoked marijuana in front of me in 1971. HE might have been an adult before he heard of it, but not me.
What time frame are you talking about?
To the tune of 27% tax in Colorado, that's a 25% tax on Mary Jane plus 2% sales tax. (Subject to upward mobility)
..........and that's what it's all about.
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