Well, your comical redundancy and obvious redundancy in issuing blanket insults notwithstanding, who's going to question its legitimacy once they see that you actually plagiarized it from somewhere, instead of thinking of it yourself?

Health Hazards - Parents - The Anti-Drug

__________________
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

I have to argue puppydog265's comments anyway. While I'm not now and haven't been for a very long time, I was a stoner in high school and I was an honor roll student every year in high school, as were a lot of my friends.

Being stoned may affect your reaction times and your thought process (i.e. something seems like a good idea while you are high, but really isn't a good idea), but I don't recall seeing any scientific evidence that it makes you less intelligent.

I think the comments were funny.

It brought to mind a group of scientists taking a "control group" of nerds and a group of stoners and saying to the stoners "all right, we need you to get high three times a day", in the name of science....

__________________
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

This part is rather funny to me..


Because had the parents known in the sixties, they'd have never smoked it.

Am I the only person amused by that?


Parent to child: "About the social consequences, take a look at me! I smoked weed back in the day while in college. I graduated and married your mother and now we have a nice house and a great family...wait, lets try this one more time."

__________________
"You know you were way too high when you wake up next to a handwritten list of all the things you would do for a Klondike bar." - Unknown

"What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad." - Dave Barry

Parent to child: "Your mother and I smoked weed and did many things we later regretted due to short term memory loss and lack of inhabition. You were conceived in a drug induced lust frenzy, and she had forgotten to take the pill the night before.....damn, this is not the right approach either."

I know this should probably be a new thread, but, can anybody make a good argument why chocolate should be legal?

Remembering that it took a Constitutional Amendment to give the government the power to make alcohol illegal; where does the government get the power to make marijuana illegal?

The Economist which is a very serious, high brow, and business oriented publication has featured as it's cover story their stance on drug legalization. They are certainly not a bunch of hippies hoping to get drugs legal for personal use but even they see the writing on the wall.

How to stop the drug wars | The Economist

Won't make any difference. They're making the same well-reasoned argument that has fallen on deaf ears for several decades now. Drugs only basic rationale, that the govt has the duty to protect you from YOU is so totally anti-freedom and pro totalitarianism that those who really and truly hate freedom just cannot let them go.

__________________
Alizee Jacotay, the reason god invented hips

Our politicians hate freedom. Good point. Our freedom somehow infringes on their "right" to be corrupt.

The last thing our crooked politicians want is an informed society.

"Feel good" drugs lead to stronger drugs and more serious consequencies in respect to their use !

That IMO is reason enough to restrict their use.

^except that is completely false.

got ANY evidence to support that claim?

__________________
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine

I say legalize the stuff and put some strict guidelines in place i.e. no telemarketing, harassment or type of marketing that interferes with the lives of normal people. I don't like the stuff or people that use it but why should they inconvenience themselves for me. Just put out similar regulations like the ones for smoking i.e. no practicing of users in public places like restaurants, malls or where there can be high concentrations of people and we're good. I know the above may sound like a contradiction but I do think the nonusers should have some courtesies extended to them as well.

Besides, the overall benefits from legalization would far outweigh the inherent negatives that come from making the stuff illegal. More tax revenues for the government, less people in jail for the petty "crimes" thus clogging up society with the excessive needs of more and more prisons and funding for such correctional facilities. Less cops harassing people over these petty things and the focus to more pressing matters that need to be dealt with.

__________________
I have the body of a god! To bad its Buddha!

Marijuana falls outside of this boundary IMHO. When kids use marijuana for the first time (or do some research about it) and find out it's not a big deal, they will be less hesitant to try other drugs that may be a big deal (like oxycontin).

Grouping marijuana in with hard drugs only make the hard drugs seem less dangerous.

I totally agree, and wish more people would realize this.

You say pot is so horrible, you teach these kids since 6th grade in DARE (personal experience). One puff and you go mad, all that stupid shit.


Then the kid tries it...... and nothing bad happens. It wears off in 3 hours or so and youre just hungry... so you get to thinking maybe they were lying about other drugs too. Maybe i'll try some.

thanks DARE, for making weed a gateway drug.

I believe that making longhair on guys and pot illegal is a sin against mankind

The truth is that really frightened people that have watched "Reefer Madness" must be scared to death.

The people that live their lives based on their strength of guilt for having fun and taking a break. They keep themselves going in their miserable lives by hating anyone that is having fun outside the laws of the state. Psychotic behavior fueling the law abiding and God fearing population supporting a stupid prohibition that is supported by their self righteous closed community should be a good enough reason not to legalize Pot. We don't what to scare the masses. I think its against the law.

Don't get me started on the World Order