2nd June 2003, 8:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 2nd June 2003, 9:55 AM by Sacred Jellybean.)
Quote:"Truth is I refuse to have my tax dollars go to Rehab fucks who dont take care of themselves".
And I refuse to have my tax dollars wasted on treating pot-smokers like criminals and locking them up for unfair amounts of time.
I've had experience with both alcohol and pot, and to tell you the truth, alcohol seems much more dangerous. Virtually every frat party I've went to, I've had a drunken encounter with aggressive brainless frat morons who want to pick a fight with me. Alcohol makes you sociopathical, doing things before you think about them. You shoot your mouth off to people bigger than you, you say and do things on impulse... I've only had experience with the latter, but let me tell you, I've been more of an asshole than I'd like to think while drunk.
I've never, EVER seen stoned people get in a fight... it just doesn't happen. When you're stoned on marijuana, you feel uncharacteristically mellow and happy, not sociopathical or malevolent. I've never felt my judgment impaired as a result of being stoned, and my pothead sister (who smokes much more than I do) hasn't gotten into one accident, despite the many times she's gotten behind the wheel while stoned (I witnessed it first-hand several times). The ONLY experience I've had with poor judgment while stoned was when I drank more beer than my stomach would allow, because while stoned, it tasted so damned good (my thereafter vomitting was also the result of smoking packaged cigarettes, which gives me mild nausea and isn't a good combination with alcohol to begin with).
I remember seeing a drug documentary in which they showed a silly commercial where a "stoned" boy bites the head off of his glass bottle and swallows the shards. This was a commercial that was aired sometime in the 50s or 60s to discourage pot-smoking. Good to know that our marijuana propaganda hasn't gotten any better. Shooting someone with a gun, thinking it's a capgun, simply because you're stoned? That's just silly...