03-27-2004, 12:53 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Phoenix
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Reefer Madness
FROG you stated you're young and I can tell you've been brainwahsed by the well-meaning school institution. People don't steal for pot and they don't lose their jobs because they're addicted to pot. So your money/taxes thinking is suspect, to say the least.
When was the last time you saw someone mugged/robbed for ciggies or alcohol? Do people addicted to these drugs get fired because they can't perform (they can't be drug-tested out of the job for those, yaknow)?
I got a good laugh at your parting shot statement - honey, people don't die from pot. I know the schools are required to provide anti-drug "education" but it's mostly happypeppypropaganda, "Just Say No" and painting brightly colored pictures of your future without drugs. You need more facts to have a better understanding of the difference between tweakers and potheads.
I wish they gave American's kids enough credit for smarts that they could tell them the truth.
They did when I was in junior high waybackbaby.
By the time our drug education was done we not only knew which ones could kill you and which could not (inc ciggies and booze which were included in the DRUG education, of course), we also knew which were downers and the effects, which were uppers and the effects, which were hallucinagenics and their effects, what to do for someone who's overdosing on various types of drugs, legal penalties for posession of the various classes and which drugs fall into which classes.
This was all in EIGHTH GRADE folks.
They even took us to a court to watch a drug trial and sentencing and then got a tour of the jail.
As to the comment about having everyone and their brother start growing the stuff - you're missing the dynamic here. People grow it now because it's not always easy to get and can be expensive. But when it's mass-grown on farms by our American farmers and mass-packaged by our American industries and sold at the 7-11 on the corner price and availability won't be an issue. Who do you know that grows tobacco in their yard for ciggies? Anyone you know running a still making bathtub gin?
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