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When did I get hypocritical?
Hypocrite group. Dont get your panties in a wad, I am joking, we all have some hypocrytical bones in our bodies... its human nature. I make concious efforts not to be hypocritical (see: not going to strip clubs even though I like nakedness since I would not be happy if a girl close to me was stripping), that doesnt mean I am perfect.
When did I get hypocritical?
Let me try to spell this out. I-T W-A-S A J-O-K-E !-! I said I was a hypocrite, you said you damned hypocrite (which I assumed [possibly incorrectly] was to be laughed at, a joke some call it). I havent seen any hypocritical statements from you in this thread. I imagine there are aspects of your life in which you are less than true to your stated values, since we cant always be perfect. Anyway I am done explaining. It was funny to me, but if I have to spend this much time explaining, I was obviously wrong about its comedic value.
........... And now, back to your regularly scheduled thread.
Nope, my fault, I didn't pick up on it. My bad. I too dislike when people don't pick up on my jokes.......again, my bad.
Having said that, could you please spell that entire thing out for me, rather then just the it was a joke part?
If the arguments for criminalizing weed were really medical, then cigarettes, alcohol, and just about any made by Frito-lay, fast-food industry, and coke/pepsi would be illegal.
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What happens in NV stays in NV, well except Harry Reid. The real estate man.
Hey they have always had legalized gambling and pros ution. So the next step.
You got it. Pot
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Only state that allows sports betting and hookers, might as well allow all drugs. You can drink at bars 24 hours a day 7 days a week and that includes Sundays even
gambling and pros ution, and for that matter alcohol are 100 times worse on a person's life than pot is.
pot jut makes u lazy, fat and slow. that's why I'm over that crap... temporarily.
Spoken with true conviction!
Um, okay, lemme see. Marijuana use is widespread - it is all around us. Since it is illegal, the money used to pay for the pot ends up in the hands of organised crime. Legalize, regulate, and suddenly all the money that is going to crime (and crime prevention for something that should not be criminalised) can now be put into the health and education budgets. Does that sound stupid to you??? Also, a lot of the people who use end up in jail for something that has a far less detrimental effect on society than either cigarettes or alcohol.
Whoever said "cocaine, and what's next" - there is a BIG difference between coke and pot. Firstly coke is highly PHYSICALLY ADDICTIVE, pot is not - that is, coke withdrawl has debilitating physical symptoms. Pot is NOT PHYSICALLY ADDICTIVE. It is somewhat psychologically addictive, but if you stop using it you don't get cravings and shakes and become a mess.
I am not ignoring the role of pot in triggering mental illness, but if you look at the science, alcohol is also a major trigger of mental illness, yet we sell that to 18yos (in the States 21).
Then you have the problem of poor quality or PCP-laced weed on the streets - that disappears because the government is producing it and people then know what they are buying.
Seriously, legalize both pot and ecstacy, which was originally used as a psychotherapeutic drug by psychologists and is also NOT PHYSICALLY ADDICTIVE, and put all the money that is right now going to organised crime back into health and education.
Human nature is such that people will use drugs. Educate them, teach them to minimse the harm of those drugs, and use the money they spend on them to enhance social ins utions. How does that not make sense? It has worked in Holland.
Drachen (Bab 5 fan?), as to the emboldened bit, where did you get that strange idea? We're not stewards of the earth, we're here to make money!!!
(I am being ironic, btw...)
Oh, and one more thing.
Where I come from we have regulated brothels in which the hookers are registered, taxed and checked for STDs weekly. We have NO STREET PROS UTION and thus none of the associated problems.
We also have a regulated porn industry and decriminalised pot, which means that you can possess an ounce and smoke in your own home, but if you do it in public and get caught you are issued with the equivalent of a speeding ticket. This frees up the police to pursue real criminals.
We've had these laws for 15 years, and thus far no major problems have arisen.
Never seen an episode of Bab 5, why? do they talk about being stewards of the earth or something?
Jailing pot smokers is a multi-billion dollar industry here in the U.S.. There is the myraid of police agencies, the courts, the prosecutors, the jailers, the jail makers and their suppliers, the dog trainers and the states which collect fines. No one wants that gravy train to end. At least make it so a person can permanently expunge a possession conviction from his record voluteering at the human society or something...geezz..
Dan is talking about the prison-industrial complex:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison-industrial_complex
Drachen - drachen are one of the bad-guy races who support the Shadows is all. If you like Sci-Fi, Bab 5 is a must. Starts slowly, but season 2-4 are genius!
As for "stewards of the earth", I know that this is a concept popular amongst tribal societies, and I agree with it, but unfortunately modern human beings, especially from developed coutries like us, have almost no connection to the natural and physical process which support them, so the idea of stewardship has been supplanted by the primacy of growth economics (despite its unsustainability as a concept over the long-term) and the almighty $$$$$$$$$$$.
Sad as fvck.
stewards of the earth = from genesis
Drachen = (german for) Dragon
Stewardship is also a concept popular with native Americans, native south Americans, various African and Asian tribes. I didn't know the Bible also called for stewardship of the earth. Maybe the religious right should re-read their Bibles.
That just about sums up Politicians.
I wonder how much we pay to keep Drunks in Jail/Prison.
I have never heard of a person beating up their spouse while high on MJ but,you can find at least one ever weekend being booked for it because they were drunk.
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