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Originally Posted by flameswin
so what about drinkers celebrating St. Patricks day? That's also a bunch of adults getting together (and yes, for 99% of people it is only celebrated for the drinking aspect, not the actual meaning of the day) and drinking their faces off on a specific day.
No difference, imo. Except that one is more socially acceptable, and due to it's destructive capabilities it always baffles me why it's socially acceptable and pot isn't. I mean, I'd get if neither were socially acceptable, but it's crazy to me when people who get loaded turn to pot users and act like their into some crazy, mind altering crap that is illegal for a reason, and then go out on the weekend and.......alter their minds with alcohol.
EDIT: Whoops...yeah, what Zevo said.
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The difference to me is attitude. Drinking is socially acceptable, but drinking and driving is equally a socially unacceptable (even among fellow drinkers). Most pot smokers I know think it's OK to pull over on their way home from work, get higher than giraffe ##### (thank you Joe Rogan), then drive the rest of the way home (and the 4:20 concept promotes this). The lack of ability to enforce the laws complicates things too. Most casual drinkers will arrange for a DD or cab if they go out drinking, and I know few people who will get tanked on there way home from work.
There is an arrogant attitude in the pot culture that is primitive and needs to be adjusted before legalization can happen and that is extremely frustrating. It's not as harmful as the government would have us believe, but it's not completely harmless either as pot culture extremists would have us believe. And when I see teenagers walking around with pot leaf t-shirts, it makes me upset too because it's very counterproductive to the legalization movement.
Just my personal experience though.
And to be clear, I am a causal pot smoker (like once a week to once a month after about 12 years of not touching it), so I am not demonizing pot smokers... just pot culture. I'm against marijuana prohibition, but some people are ruining the cause and don't even realize it.