Legalizing marijuana

[Moongoddess256]

bardicverse said:

Moongoddess256 said:

 

and bardic... if people want to be burnouts let them. Jeez. Its not like they are stealing to support their horrible addiction. At worst they sit around and do nothing. And if they are content sitting around doing nothing, who are you to decide that they can't do that?

 

Oh thats simple to answer. See, when people become burnouts, they fail to be productive. If they are big enough burnouts, they end up losing their jobs, and then they go on welfare programs all sorts of fun stuff, and guess how those programs are funded? By the taxes of productive people, the working class. So at the end of the discussion, people being burnouts and useless in society and the world directly comes into play. Maybe we should just stop offering welfare and rehab, and let them happily rot away and die unnoticed? Is that a better option?

 

 

Not all of us consider becoming another productive cog in our society a good thing (thats achieving about as much as doing nothing at all). And yes I know thats not actually adressing your point, I just felt the need to point that out to you. Marijuana does not necessarilly create underachievers. I'm pretty sure becoming jaded and disillusioned are the lead causes of that (I would know). Also, do I need to point out that the greatest achievers in the arts use copious amounts of drugs like marijuana shrooms and lsd?

 

Keep in mind theres more than one type of people that use these drugs, don't condemn the drugs because one of those types of people don't know how to exercise moderation.