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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@May 25 2005, 11:24 PM
The arguments presented in favor of using marijuana are pathetic on every level.# People who need to use it and feel oppressed because it's illegal are weak at best.# It's those people I refere to when I say there is a love affair.# I've known a few.
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Well, not much more pathetic than 'it's wrong because the law says so'. That's not explaining why it's wrong, it's explaining what happens if you get caught doing it. Different things.
People that want to smoke marijuana do it largely for the same reason people want to drink beer; it's a relaxing way to pass the time. If you've got a weed problem, that's not good. If you've got a liquor problem... that's also not good. How is one great, and the other evil? Because the government says so? Why does it 'say so'. Is everything it says the gospel truth?
It used to be illegal for black people to sit at the front of the bus. Laws change, they evolve, as society evolves.
Types of stem-cell research in the States are illegal. Is this research 'wrong and stupid' because of government say-so?
And finally.... alcohol/cigarettes are a grenade, and marijuana a nuclear bomb? Please explain. I've never heard that they are sooooo far apart in orders of magnitude. Have you tried all three? I assume you have, since you seem to know about it...
edit: Sorry, I don't mean to rip you on this, I just feel very strongly about this issue
