What is your opinion on cannabis?

[tribdog]

Originally posted by Mr. Robin Parsons
So, clearly, you are FOR criminalizing Both, Alcohol and cigarettes, right?

Actually Ì was àrguing against the legalization of drugs not the criminalization of anything, there is a difference. And don't tell me that alcohol and nicotine are drugs too. That's the argument of someone who just doesn't understand how some people handle addiction. I've never met someone offering blow jobs for a pack of Marlboros.
I'm one of the most apathetic people around and I really don't care if they legalize drugs, or criminalize alcohol and cigarettes, I just think it is a bad idea to do either.

 

[Mr. Robin Parsons]

Your statement:

Originally posted by tribdog
(SNIP)[/color]"...Legalizing addictive drugs..." (SNoP)[/color]

is clearly then misleading, as for the rest of your last post...

Originally posted by tribdog
Actually Ì was àrguing against the legalization of drugs not the criminalization of anything, there is a difference. Not really anti-legalization = Status quo = criminal! [/color] And don't tell me that alcohol and nicotine are drugs too. Why not? they are![/color] That's the argument of someone who just doesn't understand how some people handle addiction. Funny, by Gods Grace I have successfully quit BOTH alcohol and DRUGS, and your gonna tell me about it, right?[/color] I've never met someone offering blow jobs for a pack of Marlboros. Obviously you just don't get around enough, really obvious considering my present living arrangements...[/color]
I'm one of the most apathetic people around and I really don't care if they legalize drugs, or criminalize alcohol and cigarettes, I just think it is a bad idea to do either. So we shouldn't even attempt to talk about potential remedies, or situations, that can be arranged, that might actually help addicts to quit...let me put it this way...If you DO NOT CARE why the heck are you posting?[/color]

HUH?

 

[Mr. Robin Parsons]

Another issue/apsect of the use of addictive substances is the very simple fact of it's "social" nature...all the drinkers know alcohol as a "Social Lubricant" due to it's ability to get shy people out of there shells, (NOT always what you want to do, especially under the influence of alcohol as sometimes what comes out is ... ) and the similar/same is somewhat true for Cannabis inasmuch as it is a 'socializer' by way of participation, gets you into the particiating group...it's actually/factually somewhat worse, with Cannabis, inasmuchas the criminality that is associated with it's possession, introduces the idea of it now being a "Criminal Conspiracy" in it's social bonding/binding use/ability..."In for a penny...in for a pound{?}")

In scientific studies it has been seen that Cannabis will induce 'specific brainwave pattern(s)' (in everyone) and this would easily lend credibility to the idea that it promotes/generates a "common harmonic" in the cranial system. All of the people you use with, will have this common harmonic, and will follow it's decay rates, at roughly the same rate as all of the rest of the (common/casual/group) users, given "common indulgence" timing, "group harmony" should be simpler to achieve, as there is a baseline brainwave that is mutually common amongst 'collusional/colluding' users...

So we would end up finding out that some got hooked/addicted simply because of things like 'social' shyness, social ineptitude, lack of social (interactivety) training and resultant skillset(s), as the drug simply facilitated there 'entrance into a (social) group', something that they probably couldn't have, successfully, done, otherwise...

So we would end up jailing an addict, because they needed an "assistant" to help them make (new) friends...WOW!