The pics thread

[waif]

According to their findings, the use of medical marijuana has caused traffic related fatalities to fall by nearly nine percent in states that have legalized medical marijuana (via The Truth About Cars).

To establish causation, they'd have to have two states identical in every single way except for legalized medical marijuana. Since they haven't done this, all they have is correlation. "In states where medical marijuana has been legalized, traffic-related fatalities have decreased over the same time period" would be the proper way to say it. There are any number of potential confounding variables. The fact that they would commit such a glaring error leads me to suspect that this is just another bunch of stoners who want pot to be legal. I'm in favor of legalization, but the movement is its own worst enemy...

 

[Vimana]

Agreed, but this is many steps above the "it's natural" argument.

 

[King Richard]

To establish causation, they'd have to have two states identical in every single way except for legalized medical marijuana. Since they haven't done this, all they have is correlation. "In states where medical marijuana has been legalized, traffic-related fatalities have decreased over the same time period" would be the proper way to say it. There are any number of potential confounding variables. The fact that they would commit such a glaring error leads me to suspect that this is just another bunch of stoners who want pot to be legal. I'm in favor of legalization, but the movement is its own worst enemy...

Your first point is fair, your second one however is not. The movement's worst enemy are the drug company lobbyists in Washington. That's the main reason why marijuana is still illegal. It has nothing to do with who uses it or where we get it from or any of that shit. The fact of the matter is, drug companies know they'll lose a shit ton of money if marijuana is legalized because they can't patent a naturally occuring plant.

The fact that marijuana is only legal in certain states when designated for medicinal use is absolutely absurd. If the shit can be considered "medicinal," and is known to have so many different properties that benefit human beings aside from putting them in a good mental state and making everything else in the world more enjoyable, how can this possibly even be considered bad anymore? It just blows me mind. Especially when you consider that some of the retards in Washington who are totally opposed to legalizing it, who through probability alone, enjoy alcohol or have no problem with alcohol being legal despite the fact that the body has no use for alcohol and it has no healthy properties at all. I mean, there is no such thing as "medicinal alcohol" or "medicinal tobacco." There is however medicinal marijuana, and it's fucking illegal in most places on earth! fiajgijattuatujapogpoajg

Idiocy defined.

 

[Srontgorrth]

It's even more ridiculous that one of the classifications for the DEA's Schedule 1 drugs under the Controlled Substance Act is:

"The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States."

 

[waif]

Your first point is fair, your second one however is not. The movement's worst enemy are the drug company lobbyists in Washington. That's the main reason why marijuana is still illegal. It has nothing to do with who uses it or where we get it from or any of that shit. The fact of the matter is, drug companies know they'll lose a shit ton of money if marijuana is legalized because they can't patent a naturally occuring plant.

The fact that marijuana is only legal in certain states when designated for medicinal use is absolutely absurd. If the shit can be considered "medicinal," and is known to have so many different properties that benefit human beings aside from putting them in a good mental state and making everything else in the world more enjoyable, how can this possibly even be considered bad anymore? It just blows me mind. Especially when you consider that some of the retards in Washington who are totally opposed to legalizing it, who through probability alone, enjoy alcohol or have no problem with alcohol being legal despite the fact that the body has no use for alcohol and it has no healthy properties at all. I mean, there is no such thing as "medicinal alcohol" or "medicinal tobacco." There is however medicinal marijuana, and it's fucking illegal in most places on earth! fiajgijattuatujapogpoajg

Idiocy defined.

Agreed. But that's what I'm talking about. The face of the legalization movement is an inarticulate stoner whose rational for legalizing weed is that it's "awesome." The medical industry is a major roadblock, but the stoner stereotypes are another. What's really needed is a campaign featuring clean-cut medical professionals presenting the case for legalization, highlighting the trivial downsides (namely that being stoned makes you retarded), comparing it to legal substances such as alcohol and tobacco, and pointing out the reasons that it's "awesome."

Edit: GOD FUCKING DAMN IT take that stupid picture down. You're an asshole, dude.

 

[Vimana]

 

[Dak]

The fact of the matter is, drug companies know they'll lose a shit ton of money if marijuana is legalized because they can't patent a naturally occuring plant.

Bingo.

Especially when you consider that some of the retards in Washington who are totally opposed to legalizing it, who through probability alone, enjoy alcohol or have no problem with alcohol being legal despite the fact that the body has no use for alcohol and it has no healthy properties at all.

Wrong

 

[Cronopio]

 

[Onder]

 

[Onder]

 

[Pessimism]

^

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

 

[Dak]

 

[Onder]

From now on I'm uploading my images to imgur. This is the first one. A shoop I did of the Ghost/Trivium gay photosession.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Can someone explain that "arrow in the knee" thing that is so popular?

 

[Dak]

 

[Vimana]

That joke used to be funny, but then it got old.

 

[Valerie]

It started out as new and amusing, then it became widespread and popular, then it reached the dead horse phase, and then dak finally found out about it.

 

[Einherjar86]

I just played Skyrim for the first time today, so I'm just learning about it too. All the fucking guards got arrows in their knees!

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Cool bros