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akuma587 on 26 November 2008
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Kasz216 said:
akuma587 said:
If you haven't smoke marijuana before, you are seriously missing out. Its better than alcohol, and safer than alcohol. And I say that as a person who has been a straight A student his whole life. 4.0 in high school, 4.0 in college under a tough Honors program.

I don't really smoke anymore since I will be working a government job over the summer (drug testing targets marijuana since it stays in your system so long), but I would definitely smoke if I didn't have to worry about drug testing.

Eh... safer but still... it has a lot of problems.

I have a few friends who screwed up theier lives over "just" weed.

If you start doing it like semidaily it really can cause some negative effects for most people... that remain permanent.

So like, while you could make sure you avoid most of the negative effects of achohol at work... you couldn't avoid the negative effects of weed.

 

I've seen video games destroy as many peoples lives as marijuana.  WoW alone has derailed as many of my friends 'lives as marijuana has, and I know a lot of people who smoke weed.

You can screw up your life on just about anything.  I completely agree that marijuana has ruined some people's lives, but they allowed it to happen.  Alcohol could easily do the same thing.  Hell, eating too much food or working too much and ruining your family life could do it as well.

There just isn't enough that distinguishes marijuana from any other kind of addiction compared to drugs like cocaine and heroin to justify all the stigma around it.

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson