I agree that people shouldn't blame marijuana for their lives going off the track. If they had a severe cocaine or heroin addiction, then I could agree with you because those drugs have a physically debilitating addictive factor to them.
When people blame video games for a school shooting, the fact remains that they still pulled the trigger. Even if the video game may have motivated them to do it in some way, it didn't put the gun into their hand. People are just placing the blame on the catalyst rather than the underlying problem.
If marijuana "ruined" somebody's life, what if they would have become addicted to video games and had the exact same thing happen to them as with marijuana. Should we outlaw video games then because they are "addictive" and "ruin people's lives?"
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
