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02-02-2011 11:29 PM |
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Originally Posted by Stu
(Post 4088911)
I think people who think it makes you feel 'out of control' and who have never taken it probably think it's like some trippy version of getting drunk. It's nothing like that really. You can still walk, talk and act completely fine. You can think fine if needs be like a switch you can flick on and off. It just gives you this limitless capacity for fascination. TV becomes too interesting for it's own good, food tastes just fucking brilliant, and you just can't help but giggle at how good this whole life business is. It's completely useless on it's own. It's not a drug you can use to paper over cracks or drown things out. It enhances and brings to the fore whatever your current mood and activity is.
It's still effectively decriminalized though. Cops won't fine you anymore for it. The prop would have just put it in writing. The vast, vast majority of no voters were ageing conservatives, unsurprisingly.
Check out these quotes from Harry J. Anslinger. The guy who got weed banned in America.
Plenty of lolz within.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes...y+j.+anslinger
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There are all kinds of ways your physiology can respond to weed - and the grades and quality vary so much that you can have an entirely different reaction on two separate occasions. Cannabis is mind altering, which is where it differs from alcohol and tobacco and, as someone who has been relatively familiar with all three, it's facetious to lump cannabis in with the other two and you all know it is.
A few points. Firstly, I abhor my own indulgence in dope smoking because it directly funded a dirty, filthy, violent and exploitative business. I didn't grow my own. For the little time I indulged, I fed a horrendous beast that preys on the extremely vulnerable.
So the easy answer is to legalise it....right? mmmm..............
If you legalise cannabis, you open the door to legalising everything else that alters your consciousness. I've been absolutely blathered in my life, but being high is an entirely different ball of yarn. So where do we stop legalisation and how do we decide which level of completely out of it is a step too far?
One of the major sociological arguments against the legalisation of drugs is the revelation that this step would make life easier for politicians and power brokers. 1. They could stop spending so much money trying to track down drug dealers and would remove at least this purpose for escalated levels of violent crime. 2. Excessive spending on specific drug treatment programmes would fade away as drug addiction treatment would become a mainstay on your health insurance package.
Most interestingly, though, is number 3. If drugs are legalised, society completely stands back, shuts it eyes and holds its hands up in the face of the compulsion to remove oneself entirely from reality. If we say it's OK to get high, we abdicate responsibility for the reasons people have to get ****faced from dawn till they pass out. We should be looking at why the three dimensional cold light of day is that abhorrent to so many that they have to look at it from an entirely different dimension to get through the day. Legalise them all. Let's see what happens.............
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