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I don't get your signature.

Edited, Jun 23rd 2011 1:43pm by Eske

Gbaji was whining about some post I made and how it didn't address some point or I quoted something he didn't want quoted or some such crap. I asked him if he ever pauses from his whining about how not everyone posts exactly how he wants them to. He replied in the negative. I found it amusing.

Technically, he said "No." and then the next sentence was him whining about me not posting the way he wanted me to but I didn't need to confuse the issue.

More comfortable than a faux fur coat, obviously.

Whatever credibility you may have had ended just before the ellipses. Whatever you do, don't use that argument in front of someone your actually trying to convince.

You might as well say "John Stewart said legalize it on the news last night!"

My opinions are my own. What I said was South Park did a great episode about it. I was pointing out that episode because it shows that making something illegal doesn't make it go away i.e. prohibition. It also points out that many people who use medical marijuana don't need it. I talked about taxes and prisoners, neither of them were talked about in that episode.

If it was government regulated and taxed like cigarettes do you think it would be a bad thing? The country is already making money from Medical Marijuana and look at all the good lottery money goes too.

Edited, Jun 23rd 2011 2:31pm by blueazaka

You know you could have stopped by mentioning just Prohibition.

Mentioning a South Park episode agreeing with your opinion is like making an anti-drug video that looks like a bunch of pot heads created it.

Edited, Jun 23rd 2011 2:40pm by lolgaxe

Know what's a great musical? Reefer Madness. Honestly, nothing made me want to smoke pot as much as that movie.

Probably wouldn't support my arguments with it though.

Lets not forget they got Kanye West to admit he was a jackass!

Bored, quick 15 min search of mortality statistics for 1929 in Massachusetts.




Edited, Jun 23rd 2011 2:02pm by Sweetums

They point out what's "obvious" to them and I wouldn't expect or assume that they did/do any actual research or try to create a non-biased view. They shouldn't have to, they're making cartoons so they should be interested in what's funny about a topic rather than what's accurate.

It's hard to compare toxicity because the effective dosages are so different. But generally speaking, in social usage, Alcohol is far more toxic than THC.

Drinking a couple beers a day will likely impact your liver over time, where as the typical daily dosage of THC has no chronic effects. However smoking the stuff, particularly if you roll it up in papers, will expose you to carcinogens.

Still, I think it's pretty obvious that people just don't die from pot poisoning like they do from alcohol poisoning.

Indirect deaths like drunk driving versus stoned driving are hard to compare as well as stoned driving is probably not very well documented.

From personal experience I found driving while stoned was a paranoia trip but i had no problems controlling the car - in fact I would drive slow because there were cops hiding at every corner. Driving drunk, I'm ashamed to say a couple times I was a real danger and had little control over the car.

Well there is no documented physiological chronic effect. Sure, smoking pot all day everyday probably has some real psychological effects but I've not really checked them out.

Alcohol impact on a liver is well documented.

Really though, I don't see the value in comparing the two. Both are addictive and both can prove detrimental if over-used. But then lots of thing are like that.

I think pot needs to be legal or not based on it's own virtues and vices.

If we're a free people we shouldn't be regulating behaviors unless they have an obvious and measurable direct negative impact on society. Basically. Lol.