akuma587 on 09 November 2008
The most blatant hypocrisy is the fact that alcohol is legal and marijuana isn't. Alcohol causes much more anti-social behavior than marijuana does. Alcohol increases aggression, affects people's driving ability far more than marijuana, it is the primary cause of domestic violence, and in general makes people far more reckless. Not to mention alcohol is terrible for your body, and can actually kill you. It is more or less physically impossible to ingest enough marijuana to kill you, or even the active ingredient, THC, to kill you.
Marijuana does some of those things too, but alcohol is far more dangerous than marijuana. Anyone who tells you otherwise either hasn't done their homework or hasn't tried marijuana. Occasionally it freaks someone out, but marijuana is not the kind of drug that causes long-term psychological problems.
The danger order is as follows: Alcohol>Tobacco>Marijuana. Tobacco has way more long-term health risks than marijuana. So if anything should be illegal, it should be alcohol, not marijuana.
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