RyuJin wrote: Pot leading to other drugs....debatable...all the pot heads I know have only ever used pot, most of them don't drink or use cigarettes...just pot...yes some people that use pot try other drugs, that's because they're looking for that "greater" high, but not all do....addictive...again debatable many that try pot do so only once and never again, I know many people like that.... mood altering...again debatable none of the pot users that I know change their moods simply by smoking pot...in fact every pot user I know is the exact same sober as they are stoned...I deal with tons of them at my job,...when they come in I can smell it on them...I can tell if if they use a pipe, bong, or rolled simply by the smell...and I can even tell if it's a "quality" weed, or skunk all by smell....stoner comedies an atrocity? Not even closely, I find them riotously hilarious, if anything they serve to show the stereotypical humorous events that occur around potheads...forgetfulness, crazy ideas, stoner macgyver like creativity...
It seems to me that you're a hard line almost tyranical bible thumper type...everyone has to see things your way or else they're wrong, tow the line and obey or else, etc....as I've said in countless other threads over the years, what someone does with their own body is their business, no one has the right to dictate otherwise....we live in a society that violates the laws of nature continuously by forcing people to share views rather than letting them choose their own views....
Me? Bible thumper? Trololololo. I never stated that weed is "ungodly," "immoral," "unwholesome" or any such thing. I stated the facts that it is mind-altering, intoxicating, addictive, in some cases at least, and also a gateway drug, in some cases. These are all proven facts. What motivates my position on weed is not puritanism or any sort of religion, but instead, common sense. And to clear things up, I oppose the stoner comedies because they make light of the seriousness of weed. When do I get my alcoholic or heroin addict comedies?
I do not place weed in the same category as heroin, crack, or other harder drugs. Neither do I accept it as benign. I do not have sympathy for potheads who get caught, however. Many weed advocates view them as political prisoners or martyrs. I see them as people who took a risk, a stupid one, and got caught. When I caned pothead, I did not feel bad, because, even though the punishment was, in my opinion, excessive, they knew what they were getting into. Here in the US, even thought weed is illegal in most states, weed is treated with a great degree of tolerance. Weed is seen as benign, and people using it think of it as cute misbehavior rather than a crime. Sometimes, I wonder if the rattan is needed.
