At 3/23/09 05:11 PM, ripoffhitman wrote:
I dislike how far this crap has gone. I don't support weed, and I never will, but people are so damn stubborn on both sides it would be better for the country just to make it legal. Why you assholes need weed, I don't know, but making it legal would have it stop effecting me, and if it did somehow effect me, i'll fight against it.
I'm with you so far, but I wouldn't call it crap. I think it's a perfectly legit idea! I mean when you look at the facts and history of the drug you do find yourself wondering why this didn't happen just after Nixon was kicked out, and yes, legalizing it would indeed stop it affecting you because all the people who think it's "badass" to smoke pot would stop, and go drink instead.
This would get their grades down, and they'd be kicked out of their school. No more assholes for you.
Weed for pain, bullshit. It's just a bunch of stoner douchebags trying to openly smoke pot. I don't support smoking, even alcahol is pretty on the line, but why pot, because you weak willed fucks always want to find something more, something that's better than the rest. If this doesn't lead to anything, and higher drugs arn't used more, and it doesn't effect me, fine. But understand you are allowing a nation to become stupid.
Okay here's where I lost you. I would hardly call old ladies trying to cure the pain from their arthritis with marijuana prescribed by the government "stoner douchebags". In fact, many of the illnesses marijuana helps suppress are associated with old age, whereas stoners are generally young people.
I noticed a tone in that paragraph that seemed to imply that marijuana is more harmful than smoking or drinking, harmful or more "badass" being what "better" meant. Again, wrong. Here's some facts/figures for you to look at, I'll let them speak for themselves:
Deaths from alcohol abuse in 2008 (US): 19,170
Deaths from smoking in 2008: "despite progress over the past 10 years, smoking is still the biggest killer in the country and results in the premature deaths of more than 87,000 people each year in England."
Deaths from marijuana: None.
Oh, and smoking pot doesn't make you stupid. Example? Who's in the White House right now?