metal_thrashing_kansan said:
pot is illegal. And all drug users should be locked up and beaten daily. But that is just my opinion. I hate this day. All day long I hear "420 dude! Do you know what that is!?" Then the debate over whether or not Jerry Garcia died at 4:20 and how the origins came about. Then the talk about how many bowls one has/can smoke. I hate it, it makes me sick, I am tired of it, get over it (as well as myself). I think for one day, just ONE day, they should make every single drug on the planet legal and FREE. That way, we can get rid of all the users and losers (I am sure they would overdose).
Well, show me any overdosed potsmoker! lol nobody ever died from smoking joints. (well, except HANK, who died on an "overdose" in Amsterdam. He was squashed at the harpor by a container full of cannabis
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Alcohol is legal and kills thousands more than any other drug (lost 3 friends who took this dangerous but LEGAL drug). Legal or not legal means NOTHING about the danger of a drug.
I know lawyers, cops, teachers, doctors, etc. who sometimes smoke having no problem with it. Many of my friends smoke and I can say after 31 years (6 years working at a night-bar), that I NEVER saw an aggressive and dangerous potsmoker. Well, not true: I saw some, but ONLY if they were totaly drunk, too.
Off course, every drug is dangerous. Like Paracelsus said: "[SIZE=-1]dosis facit venenum". People who smoke pot on weekends, drink only some days a months, etc. will not have a problem with it. People who use it daily (=abuse) will have a problem soon (socialy, physically,etc. - dependig WHAT they take). [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]A beer per day isn't dangerous, 15 beers per day are. The same with pot.[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Society allways used drugs. Some are legal (pills, alcohol,..), some are not. (read the REAL reason, why the UN forbid pot at the beginning of the last century. It was ALL business! No plant grows faster than hemp. They used it for cloths, ropes, OIL! etc. NO industry wants a plant that everybody could grow at home easily. They want you to buy oil, cotton, beer, etc. and NOT growing it yourself for free.)
The problem is, as long as it's illegal to smoke pot, people can't be told how to use it the right way and what's REALLY dangerous.
When dope is as illegal as heroin, XTC, etc. kids who try dope see, that nothing bad happens and think:"Well, if THIS is so harmless, the "hard"drugs may be harmless, too." and possibly try it.
Ever talked with guys who work with drug addicted kids in the streets?
They all know, that alcohol, kokain, heroin, pills, etc. is the problem, NOT dope.
Well, we could argue about that for days.
I prefer a good and relaxed :Smokin: evening over a drunk evening, doing things I'd never do sober and having a bad hangover the next day.
You would be shocked how many of the people you know take drugs and nobody knows it.
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