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Dartful Dodger:
Don't listen to them Floyd. Do what makes you happy, if people quit doing drugs we'd have only illegal imgrants working the cash registers at fast food places.
When I tell a pot head, no cheese, I am more likely to get my Big Mac without cheese.
Of course I don't want you actually preparing my food. Even though I say no cheese, I'd like to think that implies no spit or urine either.
locash:
I think G.K Chesterton said it best:
"The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog."
Jabba:
I can't believe this thread has received all the attention it has...
Please, let it die!
We're getting back to the negative/political stuff from a few weeks ago!
Isn't this about BYOAC???
Floyd10:
sorry that I havent posted in a while... I am suspended, its official. My moms getting me a drug test, to see if Im not doing anything harder (BTW, i have to pay for it...). Fortunately I haven't smoked in a month, and its going to come up negative. I have just read both arguments, and i still stand firmly where I was. I do believe that it is modern prohibiton. the exact same thing happened in the 20s(I believe). people had the same exact views. and crime was much worse. people cant seem to see the forest for the trees. There was a comedian that has a unique view (and no, It doesnt encourage me to do drugs.)
"People don't think that drugs have done any good for people. I disagree, and if you dont think that drugs have done anything good for people, then do me a favor. go home right now and take all your cds, and tapes, and records and burn them. because every good song, every song that has affected your life... reeeeeeeeeaslly f***ing high on drugs."
(listen to Tool's third eye)
David cross also once said:
"But, why is pot illegal? If I wanna go home after a hard day of work, and get stoned, watch tv and eat a twinkie, whats the harm in that? I tell ya, when Im in prison, getting raped by a 400 lb man, thats when Im really gonna need a joint.Granted, I dont think you should get stoned whenever you like. I don't wanna be on the operating table with my doctor getting stoned.."
fredster:
Floyd,
A month isn't long enough anymore Floyd, It's gotta be at least 60 days.
Comedians are just that, comedy.
My point is that doing that wastes you more than you know. Instead of smoking "after a hard day" you could do something else, like making music or painting the living room, or building a mame machine to take your mind off it.
Instead, you sit there and get high. You wake up groggy, you go to work groggy, and you just don't feel like doing anything. That's where it takes you off your game. It makes you "have a hard day". It takes several days to get it out of your system.
You are not old enough to know what it does yet. I was in your shoes in '79. I said the same thing, exactly. I didn't realize what I could have been doing or what I could have accomplished because I was stoned. I didn't care.
And what happened? I had two friends that I made fun of for not toking. Both worked after school and built businesses. They are doing pretty well now. They spent their time on something constructive, not destructive.
It wastes your time. It wastes the time of people trying to help you.
I can see where you think it's a modern prohabition, but there is a reason for it. There is nothing good about it. Nothing. The money you spend on it goes to people who do crime. It supports more crime. It brings people who do crime around you. It involves you and surrounds you in crime. It makes you into a liar and a slacker. It gets worse the older you get.
You become a target, a patsy. You become less that what you can be.
Not all music is created from drug induced hallucinations. Ted Nugent is a prime example of that.
Plus you can't compare "worse crimes" and this. Comparing two bad things is not a valid argument. It is not the same thing.
You can argue it hurts nobody but yourself, it's victimless, but it's not. You have risked your future and probably upset your parents to no end. You gave money to some body that eventually leads to somebody who will kill people in order to bring you your supply. There are real victims and consequences.
Stay straight for awhile and do something constructive. Make that first album, perfect your rift. Organize that band. Figure out something to build.