I don't understand why people who complain about big government are the first one's who are willing to surrender everyone else's right to privacy to the government. Big Brother government is THE WORST type of big government there is. At least "Big Government" as he is so often called helps people out rather than going on a witch hunt after them.
Also - Just because the government labels something as something (alcohol as a non-hard drug) does not make it true. The FDA maintains that marijuana is a dangerous drug. Yet they say that alcohol is not when alcohol related crime and fatalities are SIGNIFICANTLY higher by any stretch of the imagination?
Plus alcohol is more physically addictive if you look at any scientific study. You are wrong, bardciverse, when you say that alcohol does not have addictive qualities. Alcoholics go through withdrawal when they don't have alcohol. Marijuana does not cause withdrawal and is not physically addictive.
One of the reasons for this is because marijuana stays in your body for so long. It can take a month or longer for marijuana to leave your body, so your body doesn't have a "crash" like it does with other drugs. Your body never develops a dependence on it because you are weaned off it slowly. It absorbs into your fat cells and exits your body over a long period of time.
Marijuana is psychologically addictive, but so is television, Cheetohs, masturbation, or rubbing yourself with a yellow balloon. Anything can be psychologically addictive.
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
