The lack of quality topicsFollow

Makes post farming increasingly difficult.

Both are so played out already. Let's talk about something deep and meaningful, like legalizing marijuana or whether abortion is moral.
You start.

I would, but I don't feel strongly about either of those topics. In fact, I don't feel strongly about anything except apathy.

If I ever get to 10k (and I wont) I best get a title as well, or things will happen. Bad things.





The crying in a corner will be epic

Will it involve numbers? Because I think the numbers should come back.

And heavy alchohol use causeshelps people to have children out of wedlock, kill people with their cars, beat their wives, loose their jobs and live in the gutter.

It also makes them act and talk like some with a severe muscle disorder.

Which is worse? Which is illegal? I know I'm preaching to the wrong crowd here but overall I'm not fond of alchohol. Both being illegal is fine with me.

Ya it sure doesn't. I think that's been proven at least twice here in America.

I'm just saying that while redneck Bob can go get a six pack, run someone down then beat his wife and people think it's ok(to get the sex pack that is.) but it's not ok for me to come home inhale some vegetable matter and then watch tv/play games and pass out on my couch after a bad day.

It's a tough subject to cover. It's hard to say exactly how this should be done. Many people are rightly afraid that some of the worse illegal substances could be next.

Because of the stigma involved with the green stuff it's met with a large amount of resistance.

It is funny, however, that it was originally made illegal as the governments excuse as to why Mexican's were they way the were. Blamed many a crime on ganja smoking Mexicans back then.



Edited, May 15th 2008 5:07am by ZelgadisXI

What's for lunch?

Grilled Mahi-mahi, rice and green beens.

Edited, May 15th 2008 9:28am by ZelgadisXI

Where are you shopping?

Really, Asylumites farming up towards their 10k on the OOT is a time-honoured tradition. There's just more activity on that page, it's not like you have to randomly spam. Although Dana has said that he doesn't read any posts of a poster except for the last couple of hundred, so if you don't give him TIME to get to know your style in the last couple of hundred, your title will be lacking.

Also said that if you spam the last few hundred, the title will reflect that detrimentally. But yeah, the balancing consideration is he's only going to hand out a couple more 10k titles. Apparently.


I think that drugs that are currently illegal should be available to adults who sit a test that gives them a license to buy them from chemists/pharmacists. The test should show a pretty thorough understanding of the nature of the processes of addiction, and tolerance. Some understanding of brain and body biochemistry when it comes to that particular drug. Also any other relevant information about the real positive effects and negative drawbacks of that drug. The percentage probability of it triggering psychosis, for example, what that would entail, etc. Safety issues around things like what not to mix with, how much water you should be drinking with it, etc, etc. First-aid information, and what to do in case of overdose, etc, etc.


I wouldn't even keep the "hard" drugs illegal. I would have them available from chemists too, to people who had passed the license test, and who had agreed as part of their drug licence to attend a psychiatrist or psychologist at least once a month, for the duration that the license was current. This is on the theory that people who still want to do those drugs after knowing there dangers, need to have their heads examined.


No really. They have to have some sort of issues if they need or really want outside substances like that to give them a good feeling.

As far as I'm concerned, the current "War on Drugs" is as harmful and full of failure as Prohibition was with Alcohol. Medicalising the harmful outcomes that come with a lot of drug use, instead of criminalising it, is in the long run far more cheap and beneficial to society as a whole.


Yeah, I realise this about other substances in life. But everything is on a sliding scale of "harmful" and we just have to draw the line somewhere... the same way we pick an arbitrary age at which to treat everyone as "mature" in reguards to the law, and others "children" who have fewer expectations of appropriate behaviour and long-term thinking placed on them.

I think it's reasonable to put substances that, if used incorrectly, can drop you unconscious and put you straight into hospital emergency on one side of that line. Refined sugar is addictive, especially to hypoglycaemics and diabetics, but it's just not going to kill "normal" people with the same speed. I've seen the medical havoc that marijuana can cause in susceptible people, and I think that warrents it being labelled as "harder" than caffeine or sugar. YOu can even overdose catastrophically on the stuff if you eat it without realising that you have to limit how much you eat severely, and you have to wait a long time for the effects to kick in.

Edited, May 15th 2008 10:44am by Aripyanfar