The Marijuana Thread: Congrats to Oregon, Alaska, and D.C.

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sapphi_snake said:

Joelcool7 said:

When I talk families fall apart I am talking violence and sexual activities brought on by drinking. Personally a friend of mine assualted me because I took his drink away, he then proceeded to yell at everyone around after he took a leak in the parking lot. He turned more violent saying people were looking at his junk. He was swinging his arms like a mad man and people were running away and/or laughing.

Another of my friends was drunk and we went out to McDonalds. While we were their he started hitting on one of the girls working in the resteraunt. He was yelling "You know you want my dick" and at one point tried following her into the kitchen. Me and two other friends grabbed him and returned him to the table. But he kept yelling and screaming sexual things to the girls working their. Finally we pulled him our of the McDonalds and brought him home.

I've watched stories on the news about molestations and rapes occuring when the guy was drunk. Then later on the guy was so hammered he blacked out and didn't remember a thing. Then theirs also been murders when someone goes nuts after getting drunk. Suicides caused because alcohol increases emotions and makes the depressed person even more depressed to the point they kill themselves.

Just watch Cop's or the news. Hundreds of stories about drunk people hurting innocent bystanders.

What if we never pulled my friend out of the McDonalds and prevented him from going back into the kitchen following the girl? What could he have done? He was blitzed out of his brains. Or my other friend who punched and attacked me for taking his drink then tried attacking other people?

I also know several friends who think they can drive drunk, sure what they do to themselves is okay but drinking makes you dillusional.

Drinking kills so many people and ruins so many lives. Even the people I know who drink would do terrible things drunk. Nothing good comes from getting drunk and it can't lead to anything good. So why should it be legal?

First of all, WTF were you doing at a McDonalds? That's an evil capitalist junk food restaurant chain!!!

Second of all, that only happens if you get drunk, and no one says you need to get drunk when you drink. Spme studies have shown that in mdoeration alcohol can actually be healthy. And ultimately alcohol is part of our culture, and plays an important role in social situations, rituals etc. How would people be able to watch boring things liek sports, if there was no alcohol? Trying to ban alcohol would be like trying to ban religion. No matter how rational your arguments, people don't always listen to such arguments.

Also, USA has already banned alcohol and we all know how that turned out.  Now you have Mexican drug lords running rampant near the USA border.  They have a diverse line up of products such as cocaine, heroin, marijuana, etc.... that are in demand in USA.  Keeping things illegal allows them to make huge profits.  I am not advocating legalizing the other drugs but what else are we supposed to do?  Keep fighting a pointless and never ending drug war?  Lets throw countless billions at a war that will never end (that seems the most "rational" idea that our politician can come up with).  Sure they have to take the stance "Drugs are bad mmmkay".  However, it is time to grow up.  You can't prevent people from wanting / doing drugs.  If someone wants to do something they will do it (especially when it comes to drugs).  Other ideas need to be explored.  It is stupid to group Marijuana with almost any drug since it trumps all drugs with being the safest and least damaging to your body.  USA citizens need to wake up and demand that at least marijuana be taken of its schedule 1 drug category.  To group it with the likes of heroin is just plain stupid.  USA is so far in debt that legalization of marijuana would be a God send to the economy.  That is okay though lets keep going down the same path we are and then eventually the dollar will be worthless and USA will be forced to have a revolution due to the corruptness that our joke of political system has become.