Could America Benefit From Legalizing Marijuana?
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2012/07/23 18:00:00
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Election time is always the place for strong and sometimes aggressive debates, but there are some topics that candidates fear: abortion, gun control and medicare, for starters. And then there's the topic of legalizing marijuana. Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico and Libertarian Party nominee for the 2012 presidential election, believes in legalizing marijuana in America, just like the country did with alcohol to end the prohibition.
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John Galt jr or Ron/jon 2012/07/23 18:48:29Yes
+30ending the 'war on drugs' would create jobs, cut law enforcement costs, raise revenue – and benefit patients.
They believe they can seperate their beloved "can do no harm" Marijuana from all the other various intoxicants and the numerous nefarious aspects of the drug supply and drug consumption culture.
They commonly have all the ready made ( but all too often repetitive answers and arguments ) in defense of their choosen intoxicant and its consumption while also defending all the people that do consume the intoxicant.
In their minds, There is nothing, nothing at all wrong with being a pot head and a habitual consumer of the intoxicant and there is nothing wrong with being habitually intoxicated.
There is nothing negative about marijuana that they want to acknowledge.
Many of them are drug warriors and zealots concerning their passion and lust for the intoxicants.
Often the practiced intoxication is a cult like endeavour which reasures each individual that he or she is not alone in their drug seduced thinking and intoxicated practices so all is well and nothing to really be concerned about.
There are lots of other stoners around so that makes it OK to be a stoner in the mind of a habitually intoxicated person or someone looking to...
They believe they can seperate their beloved "can do no harm" Marijuana from all the other various intoxicants and the numerous nefarious aspects of the drug supply and drug consumption culture.
They commonly have all the ready made ( but all too often repetitive answers and arguments ) in defense of their choosen intoxicant and its consumption while also defending all the people that do consume the intoxicant.
In their minds, There is nothing, nothing at all wrong with being a pot head and a habitual consumer of the intoxicant and there is nothing wrong with being habitually intoxicated.
There is nothing negative about marijuana that they want to acknowledge.
Many of them are drug warriors and zealots concerning their passion and lust for the intoxicants.
Often the practiced intoxication is a cult like endeavour which reasures each individual that he or she is not alone in their drug seduced thinking and intoxicated practices so all is well and nothing to really be concerned about.
There are lots of other stoners around so that makes it OK to be a stoner in the mind of a habitually intoxicated person or someone looking to get stoned when ever they can.
This thinking is reinforced by way of comparing the "other" intoxicants to their particualr brand of intoxication while pointing out the evils of the other numerous intoxicants and or other peoples vices.
As if their all knowing insight and their believed to be astute mentality will protect them from any possible negative aspects of their continual involvement in the drug consumption culture.
In their drug seduced minds, they confidently believe they will never be an addict or negatively effected by drugs or move on to other harder drugs .....only other people ....but not them.
Stop trying to absolve the drug itself and or the drug suppliers and or the drug users and the their habitual intoxication of any wrong doing and or culpability.
Stop denying that people who become involved in the drug culture are not prone to moving on to the many other drugs that are included and easily available relative to the whole recreational drug consumption culture.
Your one man account does not take into consideration the numbers and the percentages involved relative to just how many recreational drug consumers there are and just how many illegal recreational purpose drugs are consumed by all the people such as yourself that argue on behalf of recreational drug consumption. In effect you encourage the use of non essential, recreational drugs( intoxicants ) for the sole purpose of getting high , stoned out of your mind, blitzed, blasted, wasted, wrecked, bombed, caked, caned and a long list of other endearing phrases and terminology used by stoners and pot heads while habitually intoxicated.
Everything you say in defense of the drug simply encourages people to try the drugs or continue consuming the drugs no matter what the consequences.
What is needed here is less drug consumption and less intoxication.
marijuana=calm, relaxed behavior
right there is unmisguided cold hard fact. i know because i've experienced both. so really, you're misguided
as compared to Alcohol and the type or kind of intoxication that that users experience.
Given a choice between alcoholics and pot heads everyone will choose the pot heads.
However I personally have never met a cannabis user who does not drink alcohol also and usually they are drunk and stoned at the same time.
I know there are a notable amount of people that consume cannabis only while occasionaly having a drink to go with a good round of Cannabis.
But alcohol and cannabis are like brothers and sisters and 9 times out of ten are consumed together.
All said and done...I have lived around and amongst the pot heads and the alcoholics and the tobacco addicts and some of the hard drug users.
The pot heads "think" they all have wonderfull personalities and or they think they are better and more interesting, friendly personalities while they are habitually intoxicated.
Most people that are not intoxicated ( non users and observers) will point out that the stoned pot head is all too often not a person that you really want to be around all the time because their stoned out personality gets in the way and their intoxication is not a joy to be around the way the pot heads think they are so enjoyable to be around.
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as compared to Alcohol and the type or kind of intoxication that that users experience.
Given a choice between alcoholics and pot heads everyone will choose the pot heads.
However I personally have never met a cannabis user who does not drink alcohol also and usually they are drunk and stoned at the same time.
I know there are a notable amount of people that consume cannabis only while occasionaly having a drink to go with a good round of Cannabis.
But alcohol and cannabis are like brothers and sisters and 9 times out of ten are consumed together.
All said and done...I have lived around and amongst the pot heads and the alcoholics and the tobacco addicts and some of the hard drug users.
The pot heads "think" they all have wonderfull personalities and or they think they are better and more interesting, friendly personalities while they are habitually intoxicated.
Most people that are not intoxicated ( non users and observers) will point out that the stoned pot head is all too often not a person that you really want to be around all the time because their stoned out personality gets in the way and their intoxication is not a joy to be around the way the pot heads think they are so enjoyable to be around.
They get along fine with other potheads of course but when they are around the majority of people that are not stoned on cannabis they are considered the stoner(s) and it is obvious and not always welcome.
They think they can hide it ..but not really.
Anyhow they can do what they want and they can continue to promote their favourite drug of choice all they want .
Meantime I will continue to advocate for less drug consumption while I continue to tell people to avoid the drug scene and the drug culture and better to never take the drugs.
In the long run everyone is better off without the drugs and all the intoxication.
OK??
If a person chooses to be a non essential recreational drug users and chooses to be an habitually intoxicated person then you will be subjected to criticism from a notable percent of the other citizens who do not want the drugs consumption going on around them and do not want the drug users around them also.
They do not want the drinking going on around them also.
That aspect of drug consumption will never change.
I have been around the intoxication and the people who practise it habitually.
I prefer to be around lucid, sober people and I know most other people dont like to be around intoxicated people ....especially if they are habitually intoxicated people.
Less drug users and less drugs is what is needed here...not more drugs and more intoxicated people while defending the drug culture and the drug users.