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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 2/20/2009 4:54:35 PM | re: Msg: 527
LOL. Love it or leave it....
No it's not one of the finest governments on the planet. There are many others that don't go around playing planet wide bully. The US Federal Government is rogue for many reasons beyond the scope of this topic. It has expanded into a global empire. It bombs people like you and I for its benefit and the benefit of those connected to it. It kills in the 'war on (some) drugs'. A new president comes in promising change and inside just a few days manages is to kill normal every day people who were just trying to live their lives. The federal government breeds enemies every day.
But back to love it or leave it, the original federal government was not to do anything with regards to the substances we consumed, or used in any fashion. You might want to actually study some of the founders' writings. Only Hamilton might find some joy in the way things are today (especially the central bank and ignoring the constitution with regards to money), most would be appalled. A good many even grew hemp, some likely even smoked some weed themselves.
But I see you still avoid the question. Who is the victim when someone smokes some pot? Who requires justice? Who's been damaged? Who is supposed to get compensated? What does locking a person in a cage for the use of a plant on himself achieve?
You can continue to construct fictions in an attempt to mask your ignorance in ridicule. It has become clear you do not have the intellectual capacity to discuss the principles, questions, and so forth but would rather go for a low level elementary school yard style. I have no interest in such a thing. So, you're welcome to the last word. | |
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 2/20/2009 5:22:04 PM | What a great and intelligent response.
Truly I am a dum dum.
Thank you for exposing my foolishness.
Of course you are right and I am wrong.
Nobody gets victimized when pot is used, except the poor user.
No crimes against others ever occur due to pot addiction.
Nobody gets damaged from pot usage.
The US government is evil for suppressing pot usage.
So my path of rehabilitation into reality is clear.
I need to smoke dope.
So tonite I will do my duty towards the betterment of society by purchasing an ounce of pot from a drug dealer.
What a ****ing whack job you are xeo
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 2/20/2009 5:45:04 PM | I do see it as being a bad thing- right now it is illegal. You are imbibing an illegal drug. Even though alcohol is 'legal' doesn't mean you should be a drinker- or enjoy getting drunk. The one difference and this is my opinion: you can have a social drink and not be 'high' or drunk unless you have a LOW tolerance. But MOST people smoke pot to get 'high', 'stoned' or whatever. What kind of message does this send to your child? Pot isn't a social thing where you have one joint and you're not necessarily high and your judgement isn't impaired.
You are breaking the law, despite the fact that you are teaching your daughter 'right' about everything else. What if you got busted when you're buying? How would you explain a night in jail to your child? And the court proceedings? 'Well honey, mommy likes pot so much, she breaks the law to smoke it.'
You need to think about it in the above context and how inane it would sound to explain this to your daughter.
Not to mention that second hand smoke and smoking in general is bad for your health. People think illnesses associated with cigarette smoking don't have the same effect on pot smokers. Wrong.
I think your date just told you that because he was a jerk- but in my opinion, it sounds like you're doing everything else right with your daughter, but I would give up the pot. Unfortunately it can and does lead to worse things. Maybe not for you, but if you're daughter partakes someday, and she will, since mom advocates it, it could push her down a destructive path. So please for health reasons for yourself and your child, plus the legal implications, you need to find a better 'habit'. | |
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 2/20/2009 6:21:15 PM | I'm sorry...if I disagree with something my government is doing...I don't have to leave.
I can attempt to make changes...and I can complain loudly if I disagree with laws that
ORDINARY people make.
love it or leave it....ahahahahahahahaha!
good answer.
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 2/20/2009 8:29:18 PM | So you're going to make a lame attempt... well good, now we are getting somewhere. we can continue.
Nobody gets victimized when pot is used, except the poor user.
There are infinite numbers of way people can harm themselves. What makes pot special? absolutely nothing.
No crimes against others ever occur due to pot addiction.
Ahh, so you decide to bring in the old drugs bring crime... Those 'crimes' are due to the government's prohibition. Just like they were when alcohol was prohibited. It's the state that makes criminals out of people by making the substance illegal. It's criminal organizations that spring up when a business becomes illegal and loses the ability to operate openly in society. Whatever happened to the crime around alcohol? Vanished the day prohibition did. Or maybe you actually believe that the film "Reefer Madness"... lol. The scary black men will smoke pot and have sex with white women according to the materials of the time. You do know that's how it got made illegal right? Such absurdities are the root of the prohibition.
Nobody gets damaged from pot usage.
People get damaged from lots of things, including stuff the government forces on us. But I know, you believe all of that to be myth. Your government luvs you. Maybe the government should regulate our entire diet under your logic of 'might cause harm to someone'.
The drug war is a failure. It's turning Mexico into a failed state. Just this past year over seven thousand people have been killed in the border region. The toll in lives and treasure alone are rather absurd for a futile effort to keep some people from getting high.
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 2/20/2009 11:33:10 PM | Xeo, I'm really starting to feel sorry for you.
You do seem like a nice guy.
But you gotta grow a set of balls and suck up the victim attitude thing.
The way you moan, I would've thought you were living in the black hole of Calcutta, only for that the average resident there doesn't piss and moan about life nearly as much.
Look I'm sorry you got your ass resized by Uncle Sam a while back, but you gotta get over it and move on dude.
And for God's sake, stop trying to constantly reason with people when they abuse your ass. Being a doormat does not become you. | |
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 2/21/2009 9:40:59 AM |
No crimes against others ever occur due to pot addiction.
How can there be crimes associated with "pot addiction" when such a thing does not exist??? Like the other poster suggested, you may want to check your facts. | |
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 2/21/2009 6:28:07 PM |
Xeo, I'm really starting to feel sorry for you.
You do seem like a nice guy. But you gotta grow a set of balls and suck up the victim attitude thing. The way you moan, I would've thought you were living in the black hole of Calcutta, only for that the average resident there doesn't piss and moan about life nearly as much. Look I'm sorry you got your ass resized by Uncle Sam a while back, but you gotta get over it and move on dude. And for God's sake, stop trying to constantly reason with people when they abuse your ass. Being a doormat does not become you.
Yes reasoning with you is pointless, that doesn't mean watching you respond to reason with insults isn't entertaining. It's pretty clear that you don't understand reason, logic, or anything else, merely the use of force. Although that does explain your views regarding authority. You really might think about improving yourself. Trying to be better than a socialized animal. Then again you may be too far down the eugenics line that Bertrand Russell discussed for that to be possible.
While convincing you is impossible, I get the benefit of introducing ideas and points of view that many may never hear otherwise while having the side benefit of you looking like a fool. Not that I am above insulting you in return, I probably couldn't do a better job than you do to yourself.
There is nothing about being a victim in realizing what the state really is, in fact it is rather empowering because the state loses it's primary tool, the grant of authority. Just because you're too scared to have opinions, to question, to otherwise disagree with those grant authority over you doesn't make those that do to be moaning or victims or anything else. Maybe you'll understand if the government bans motorcycling (because it's dangerous and someone might get hurt) that if takes something away from another person it can take something you care about away next. This is why people like myself who would never smoke pot will defend the right of other people to do so. I don't ride motorcycles either but you'll also find that I defend a person's right to ride one just the same. That is because it is the same thing, the right to live as we see fit so long as we do not harm others.
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 2/21/2009 6:57:27 PM | Prediction;
We will have to wait for the baby boomers to die off before pot will be legalized by the Fed.
As for the "gateway" theory. That's a big load. The conservatives ought to sit on an AA or NA meeting and ask the participants if they would have found themselves abusing if their drug or alcohol of choice didn't exist.
Here's my favorite part;
If I see something traumatizing and go to a shrink to deal with it, I know that I can find one that will hand me a prescription of pills within my first two visits. I'm sure many of you, like me, know someone who walked out of the office in a similar time frame with a prescription for something that has less than ten years of research or experience behind it. Who cares if a prescription is the first course of action? As long as it's legal its not a problem, right
I see an image of soccer mom driving the minivan with the DARE sticker sporting a big Xanax smile; it's OK; the doctor prescribed it. Kinda 50s isn't it? Who says we haven't come back to the old fashion values? | |
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 2/22/2009 7:53:24 PM |
It's pretty clear that you don't understand reason, logic, or anything else, merely the use of force. Although that does explain your views regarding authority. You really might think about improving yourself. Trying to be better than a socialized animal. Then again you may be too far down the eugenics line that Bertrand Russell discussed for that to be possible. Now that's an improvement over your usual snivelling.
I was beginning to wonder if you could get properly pissed off at all.
Very refreshing to witness that xeo.
Refreshing like beating a dead horse for a week until it finally farts.
Now here's a rad notion: How about turning some of that hard won anger and purging your own insides of some of your own stinking attitude?
You know, the one that keeps telling you how the USA is such a crappy place to live because of the intolerable oppression that it's government inflicts upon the 'great unwashed'.
Be angry about the bad gov't stuff and work for change, but appreciate and never forget all the good. All of it. And if you need to live in Somalia for a year to appreciate the good in where you are now, then go. I'm sure many of your fellow citizens and forum readers would be happy to contribute towards your plane ticket.
This is why people like myself who would never smoke pot will defend the right of other people to do so. I don't ride motorcycles either but you'll also find that I defend a person's right to ride one just the same. That is because it is the same thing, the right to live as we see fit so long as we do not harm others. So indulge me here xeo, instead of screaming that the strawman is coming to molest your hind quarters again:
According to this logic, you would therefore defend not only pot smokers and bikers, but also the right of a person to view child porn online, assuming 1) It were available to view totally free of charge and in a totally undetectable fashion, and 2) That person, in no way shape or form was detected in his actions, and/or promoted the cause of child porn in any way whatsoever, and 3) That was all that the person ever did that was illegal, because.....
.... it is the same thing, the right to live as we see fit so long as we do not harm others. ??? See how well thought out your position really is, upon further examination??
Go ahead dude, defend your words. We're all listening.
Now I am real big on live and let live bud, believe me. But, are you beginning to see how this 'politically correct lets-all-be-free laissez-faire b/s attitude run amok' of people like you is overtly promoting the putrefaction of the individual from within, and that inevitably becomes society's burden in the long run? Again.... you need a more balanced attitude. | |
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 2/22/2009 8:43:35 PM |
I was beginning to wonder if you could get properly pissed off at all.
Sorry, I am not pissed off. You're a very weak troll. If you think you're lame insults are worthy of getting pissed off about. You're nothing compared to the trolls of usenet at its peak. Simply put, your skills suck. You are transparent. A good troll isn't. Then again I cannot expect much from someone who sees the sort of people who become elected office holders and their employees and thugs to be his masters.
So indulge me here xeo, instead of screaming that the strawman is coming to molest your hind quarters again:
According to this logic, you would therefore defend not only pot smokers and bikers, but also the right of a person to view child porn online, assuming 1) It were available to view totally free of charge and in a totally undetectable fashion, and 2) That person, in no way shape or form was detected in his actions, and/or promoted the cause of child porn in any way whatsoever, and 3) That was all that the person ever did that was illegal, because.....
At least you're learning when you are constructing a strawman but what you are doing here is more of a red herring. Given your posts you probably find the arrest (and cheer for conviction) of 15 year old girl who took naked pictures of herself entirely valid. ( http://wearecentralpa.com/content/fulltext/news/?cid=69372 ) After all, the law is the law, and she's guilty of creating 'child pornography' so she has to be put in a cage and her life ruined (as a sex offender) for her own good.
As to your 1,2 and 3, they make no logical sense what so ever. Children are considered incapable of making their own decisions and thus the parallel you try to construct fails immediately. Adults who use various substances, ride motorcycles, sky-dive, and an infinite number of other things a nanny state may deem 'dangerous' and make illegal are seen as capable of making their own decisions, at least for now.
Now I am real big on live and let live bud, believe me. But, are you beginning to see how this 'politically correct lets-all-be-free laissez-faire b/s attitude run amok' of people like you is overtly promoting the putrefaction of the individual from within, and that inevitably becomes society's burden in the long run? Again.... you need a more balanced attitude.
It's a shame that the only way you can even begin to counter my arguments is to construct your own extreme versions of them and then complain that the argument you just created is too extreme. It's laughable really. It makes me miss the time that the internet was smaller and dominated by people with intelligence. People like you are easier than shooting fish in a barrel.
Anyway, society's problems with drugs are entirely from the results of government's prohibitions and the use of government force to make people pay the costs of those who damaged themselves.
I suggest you learn the the Non-Aggression principle. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle ) Although I doubt you have the mental capacity (after years of dumbing down through the government schools and a mind mushed by television and the mainstream media) to even grasp key principles of liberty. After all, you're an adult child that needs the heavy hand of government to prevent him from hurting himself. | |
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 2/22/2009 9:08:24 PM | I dunno what the scoop is here regarding the legalization of hootch is ..but hootch and all other drugs should be legalized for a few reasons.. no more organized crime and the monitoring of human health .. hey I am not a taker or giver of dope .. I believe that Milton Friedman said it right .. you get rid of what is already destroying countries today.. dictatorships, violence and ignorance. It would be monitored and take the stigma out of it and very likely soon free our societies of drug addictions by ridding it of what it does not need.
Dope is a hormone alterer ,.. and anything that alters your hormones .. f'cks with your brain chemistry .. it changes the brain wave patterning as all bio non synthetics to our bio chemistry does ... our brains do not work well on dope of any kind, they slow our thinking processes , accelerate aging by changing the adrenal glands. It inhibits the proper functioning of testosterone so eventually after long term use.. as in when you become middle aged you will experience impotence as it blocks .,blood flow.. blood flow is an erect penis in action ,... I realize that all the kids here are going to jump on this .. but long term use is as bad or worse than nicotine on the penis.. so get with it and check the endocrinological data...
For women it alters their hormones and creates inconsistencies .. hence mood swings.. anxiety attacks and adrenal overload.. you get older fast .. you will experience menopause in more disastrous ways as it ruins the normal flow of hormones.. anything that alters the brain's chemistry creates altered DNA and when you f'ck with the genome .. you invite cancer an open doorway.
We have too many powerful thugs in the human race taking advantage of the uneducated .. you can't tell me that street drugs don't move thru society without help from organized crime and that alot of political and corrupt law enforcers don't know it is going on... cocaine is not produced at a tupperware party of ex baptist bible teachers.. it takes a great deal of money and an extreme amount of power and capital to produce hallucinigenics... and it would set up a new form of commerce for an economy that is ready for it... I believe that eventually it would do the opposite of what it is doing now..
However I believe that anyone that decides to reproduce and is pregnant has no right to subject a fetus that they chose to produce to DNA and epigenetic malformities or death .. for a fix.. anyone that wishes to continue a pregnancy should be forced to have a full term healthy baby thru clinical withdrawal detox... as anything else is child abuse ... anyone that desires to subject their dna to major changes and refuses treatment that is fine .. but anyone that decides to subject children to this is as much an abuser as any other form of abuse .. Would our society stop a woman stabbing a baby in the brain with a knife ... >? yah.. so why do we let an addict stab a fetus with dna altering .. drugs.. it is not a choice to kill anothers dna.. if you decide to reproduce you should be forced into a healthy clinical withdrawal or society pays anyway.. and a healthy baby ... is worth the jail sentence as a drug addict has no common sense, life is about getting the fix.. and that is all it is about ..
The excuse of doing drugs on your own time and that your kid is oblivious ... good luck with that mentality as the kid has more logical brain characteristics than her mother .. a child needs a mother with a clear mind.. and marijuana is not known for its .. clarity properties to sharpen the mind.. according to neuroscientists.
We would have more money for rehabillitation processes if we legalized and monitored the use of these forms of drugs .. as it is no different than the abuses of nicotine .. and booze...
I am not an advocate of legalization because I am a smoker toker joker or poker .. I am so ... anti it all but you have to know alot about the epigenetics and the molecular alterations to understand the depth of damage these drugs do,....all people who are addicted are damaged goods long before they become addicts.. | |
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 2/22/2009 9:25:55 PM | i dont smoke pot, but im not against it, ( ive only read the first page )
the only thing i think would make you a bad mother is if you smoked/smoked pot in your home, car, around your child, when they were awake, or if it affected your finances. that is all. | |
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 3/19/2009 5:27:16 AM | I think given the facts that you have presented in your original post, you are not a bad mother. However, this is my opinion and unfortunately my opinion stands for nothing in a legal sense.
It is a shame that you have left the site as I would have tried to write to you on here, but I am writing this in the hope that you call back in here time to time to read the advice on this thread.
Currently in Australia (where I live) there is a campaign of smoking in a car, or my home with children inside. This is legal tobacco cigarettes, not marijuana. I consider myself as a very good mother and always put my children first in every occasion, but I also smoke. So this is a dilemma for me.
The only way for me to comment on you being a bad mother is if I saw the circumstances you and your daughter lived in. It is good that you are not on welfare and that you can still take care of your little girl like a sober person.
If you smoked this while you were pregnant with your daughter, I believe the damages could be the same as those of a smoker with the reduced weight and some birth defects such as asthma. As for your partaking in drugs causing serious effects on your unborn child, you would have had to be stoned all day for the entire pregnancy.
If you smoke this in your home when your daughter is in the home, perhaps going outside in the fresh air to have your fix as marijuana smoke is more toxic than cigarette smoke. For the health and safety of your daughter, please go outside and consider her tiny lungs. They are not fully developed.
Obvious signs now would include that your daughter would have troubles in learning basic life skills, reading, writing and able to comprehend school work and social skills.
I personally do not smoke marijuana or partake in any illegal drugs, but I don't criticise anyone who does things in their own home and their own surroundings.
Your daughter sounds like a very smart little girl and I think she will have her own mind on what she likes to do when she hits adulthood. | |
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 3/19/2009 7:46:43 PM | | Not all ppl smoke do so to get high. They do so bc they are in extreme pain. They do so bc they have seizures. Go to a Dr. & get pain medication U say?...NOT so easy, when they have these new "pain management clinics" set up & PCP will no longer treat U or your pain, they refer U out. Y bc that is how the insurance claim world works within the medical practictioners. buy over the internet...BS. pot relieves the muscle tension, it controls portions of the brain stimuli that creates the saratomin levels affecting the left side of the brain where seizure activity can be found in partial complex epileptic patients. A Neurologist will not disagree with you for smoking pot, it has been written into the medical reviews. Just as adults chemo patients readily smoke to increase the appetites & keep nausia at a minimum. Migrain headaches have the same effect & pot has the same advantage. So again, Pot is not smoked by ppl to get high, it is smoke in their efforts to be able to cope with their pain, so that they can attempt to maintain a dignity in their lifestyle without having to depend 100% on another person for their are due to their pain. Until U have walked in that disabiling & dibilitating pain day after day, the relief of a mere half a cigarette is a wonderous drug,that is why in 5 states now ther have been medical laws passed where it IS legal to have up to 1 OZ. Fines have now been reduced in the state of Texas, where it is no longer a feloney with possesion under 4 oz. & not considered intent to distribute. BUT when there are children involved in a home situation & ANY type of illegal drug is being used, CPS has the right to remove any & all children, hat is the way these laws are written to protect children & should be. | |
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Posted: 3/20/2009 10:37:58 AM | | I'll tell you what dustie. I grew up around alcoholics, pill heads and pot heads. I have to say that smoking pot is about teh least dangerous thing you could do. there are worse things out there pot doesnt make people mean, or dangerous. Plus I know for a fact that you cant get addicted to it to whoever said that on here. I used to be a big pot head and I quit cold turkey about 4 yrs ago and I smoked everyday all the time. I say **** that guy he was trying to make you feel bad, you will have that. As long as you are doing what you think is best, not ignoring your child, and she isnt in danger than it doesnt matter what anyone else thinks. My mom was a big pot head when I was a child and a drinker. We never went hungry, we never went without clothes, and I was never beaten/molested/or pressured to do it too. i honestly think it could be worse. If you were smoking crack I could see him being validated. | |
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 3/21/2009 11:51:29 AM | No, smoking marijuana does not make you a "bad" mother ... but... what age are you going to allow your daughter to sit down and smoke a joint with you?
She will likely learn from mom that it is all good, and will be smoking regularly at about age 15 (please keep in mind that her brain is still developing during the teens and into early adulthood ... the damage she will do to her lungs ... the possibility that pot can be a "gateway" drug ... and that pot tends to affect ambition and personality even in the early stages of usage). And...if she becomes a pothead and you start seeing the negative affects, there will be nothing you can do or say anymore. Like a boy I love (along with several of his lifelong friends) say "Mom can't say nothin to me or she'd be a hypocrite". In the past 2.5 years I have noticed significant changes in this boy, and it is really sad. Many people can see what is happening, but his mother just shrugs her shoulders ... to effectively encourage him to slow down would mean she would have to give it up herself.
Now, I am not meaning to "preach" ... At one time I thought pot was perfectly okay. I still believe it should be decriminalized for reasons ... but after growing up with it and seeing both long-term and short-term effects on people, I'm just not as convinced how harmless it is...
Just offering some food for thought, OP. ... not meaning to criticize. If your daughter is safe, happy and well cared for, you can't be a bad mother! | |
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Posted: 3/21/2009 8:33:06 PM | | U know what U just said is like someone drinking say to their kid, here kid have a whiskey with me... when the kid is 15, now that is child abuse. Now plzz let's not exaggerate this on your ridiculous basis to condemn this mother bc of your beliefs. Do U smoke cigarettes in your household? what about 2nd hand smoke floating through the air as it has been for years damaging ppls brains. I smoked pot for 20 yrs & I NEVER did ANY other drug in my life & quit cold turkey with no problem...of course I am suffering now in pain. I NEVER offered it to my kid & I NEVER shared it with my kid & ANY parent that does needs to be arrested. Y do I write such a sentence? BC I was 30 yrs old before I even seen my 1st J, yea, ya'll go & laugh... but adults just don't do those type of things with minor children, it's a type of molesting their life, just the offering of a drug to them, the enticement would give reason to abuse the minor child. That is totally sick of U to say such a thing. | |
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| I was told I am a bad mother because I smoke marijuana.
Posted: 3/21/2009 9:34:13 PM | | If you smoke pot around your kid, you're an a$$hole. Never mind the age of your child, you're an a$$ nonetheless. Kids don't need to be expossed to a drug at any age. If they do, the cycle of drug use will continue. And then their kids will be the next in line. Pot is dangerous and you people who disagree are a$$hole$. Don't try to make it seem okay to smoke it by saying it's not addicting. It is. Or by saying it's not dangerous. It is. Stop fooling yourself already. If it wasn't addicting or dangerous it would be as legal as cigarettes or alcohol. Goodluck if it ever is legalised. Shame on our government if it ever is. | |
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Posted: 3/25/2009 3:33:14 AM | OK this last post just fired me up. if you are ignorant why post? my mother had a saying when i was young and it fits. it is better to remain silent and appear ignorant than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. the reason pot is illegal is because it is non taxable in its present state . period. the u.s government has toyed with the idea for years of legalizing pot and selling it themselves and like cigarettes and alcohol taxing the hell out of it. they even went as far as having the Marlboro cigarette company create mock up packs for approval. it would be like any other substance illegal to drive wile under influence ect.. but pot is far from dangerous.it has no long term addictive affects and the short term are just that very very short term. it is like posted many times here medicinal if anything. also to the ("would be as legal as cigarettes and alcohol ") coment. WOW do you know how many die each year from smoking cigarettes? It accounts for more than 440,000 of the more than 2.4 million annual deaths. Cigarette smokers have a higher risk of developing several chronic disorders. These include fatty buildups in arteries, several types of cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (lung problems). Atherosclerosis (buildup of fatty substances in the arteries) is a chief contributor to the high number of deaths from smoking. Many studies detail the evidence that cigarette smoking is a major cause of coronary heart disease, which leads to heart attack. (taken directly from aha website) and alcohol ? Number of alcohol-induced deaths, excluding accidents and homicides: 21,634 Number of alcoholic liver disease deaths: 12,928 thats per year (adjusted) so just because its legal dose not make it safe ,period. and Finlay pot (from our own governments website) Nearly 100 million Americans admit to having used marijuana at least once in their lives, while some 25 million admit to having done so in the past year. With a death rate of (((( 35 out of 100 million ))))), it doesn't seem very dangerous.
OK so get your facts strait i found all this info in about 3 minutes were is your info from?
i agree smoking , drinking whatever in front of minor children should not take place however . it is an adult activity saved for adult time. | |
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Posted: 3/25/2009 3:56:49 AM | oh and one more thing. the "kids dont need to be exposed at any age" coment.
Approximately 15 percent of 10th and 12th graders have used amphetamines. In a study at San Francisco General Hospital, 25 percent of seizures were found to be caused by amphetamine use. An estimated 1.8 million (0.8 percent) of youth age twelve and older are current users of cocaine Teen arrestees often test positive for recent drug use. The National Institute of Justices Arrestee and Drug Monitoring System (ADAM) drug testing program found that 66 percent of underage male arrestees tested positive for marijuana
Almost half of all high school seniors in America have experimented with illegal drugs and about three quarters have tried alcohol.
The Breakdown
Drug Use Prevalence by American High School Seniors – 2007
Marijuana – 41.8% have tried the drug, 31.7% have used it in the last year, 18.8% in the last month, and 5% uses it every day.
Inhalants (Sniffing glue, gasoline etc.) – 10.5% have done it. 3.7% have done it within the last 12 months, and 1.2% within the last month.
Hallucinogens – 8.4% have tried hallucinogens (LSD, Magic Mushrooms, Peyote), 5.4% have used within the last year, and 1.7% in the last month.
Cocaine – 7.8% have used, 5.2% have used within the last year and 2% have used within the month.
Heroin – 1.5% of high school seniors have tried heroin.
Tranquilizers – 9.5% of high school seniors report having used tranquilizers to get high, 6.6% have used within the last year.
Alcohol – 72.2% have used alcohol, 66.4% have used within the last year, 44.4% within the month and 3.1% use alcohol daily.
Steroids – 2.2% of high school seniors have used steroids.
Ecstasy – 6.5% have tried it, 4.5% have used within the last 12 months
Meth – 3% have tried meth.
Prescription Pain Pills – 15.4% of high school seniors reported having used prescription drugs (vicodin, oxycontin etc.) to get high during the last 12 months.
Cough Medicine – 5.8% had used cough medicine to get high (DXM)
(All data from NIDA)
ok so if anything the " kids of today " have more knowlage more acces and better drugs than there parents. again i do not condone partaking in front MINOR CHILDREN but i just want to disect your whole statement and throw up. | |
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