akuma587 on 09 November 2008
Jackson50 said:
My brother smoked marijuana and it nearly ruined his life. Obviously, this evidence is anecdotal and is in no way endemic of marijuana smokers as a whole. Nonetheless, it is experiences such as these that cause people to oppose the end of drug prohibition. I do not agree with their opposition, but I can empathize with their sentiment. |
My brother also had some bad experiences smoking marijuana that led to later mental problems which he has now overcome, but it was most likely because the joint was laced with something else. Many times someone has a really bad experience while smoking is because there are other things in the marijuana besides just marijuana. Smoking weed would be safer if it were legal since everything would be mass produced and subject to FDA approval.
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
