Heavy alcohol drinking causes cirrhosis of the liver, severe damage to your kidneys, can cause you to go into withdrawal, dehydrates your body, and can kill you. Not to mention it drastically increases violent crime, rape, domestic abuse, and all other kinds of pleasant things.
Tobacco is responsible for all kinds of medical disorders in this country that people never would have had otherwise. It has cost our healthcare system billions of dollars already, and will cost us billions more in the future.
Anyone who complains about side effects marijuana is ignoring the giant elephant in the room, that it is less dangerous than two of the drugs that have always been legal.
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
