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sathorA anti-marijuana add greatly disturbed me today.
It had a little girl, probably like two years old, walking over to a pool probably 6 feet deep and trying to get on one of those floats...heh...then the screen goes black.
"Just tell your parents you weren't watching her because you were getting stoned, they'll understand."
"Be responsible" and it has the america drug-free logo
You know...it's sad when they have no other negative things to say other than side-affects that can be controlled by an experienced user.
That's it. The only things they can say are examples. Marijuana is about as bad for you physically as cigarettes, it hasn't affected me mentally I can garauntee except when I'm actually high (the effect then changes depending on who I'm around), and I find it hard to believe that anyone who has a little kid that age to watch is going to get high and ignore the kid, but hmm, lets see, OH YEAH - that's the only defense the damn anti-drug society feels it has. It has nothing else. They have no way of determining whether someone is high during a car accident, so any information they give there is from a blood sample/piss test which goes back quite farther than the amount of time they were driving. They have no proof of ill mental effects, they have not a damn thing. If it was really bad for you, they wouldn't say it's okay to use medically.
They have nothing. I laugh at their ignorance.
Another depicted a guy in his basement smoking a joint, probably 20+ years old, and his little brother walking down the stairs saying how he never dropped out of school, never got put in jail...but he 'never did anything' and therefore was stuck sitting on the couch.
So sad that they decide anyone who smokes marijuana won't be successful. Hah. So opinionated.
Someday humanity will realize that the only thing it has going for it is choices, and every single one that gets taken away is another step towards loss of freedom. Or maybe humanity will never realize it.
The social contract you might say. But I don't recall ever signing my freedom of choice away.
I am human, I will be what I want to be in face of all odds, I will stay the way I want to stay, and no one is going to stop me.
I would GLADLY die for my beliefs.
And don't you ever tell me I'm wrong for dressing the way I do, wrong for smoking marijuana, wrong for having faith in my Gods, for trying to become a Druid, for believing in magick or anything.
Because you can't prove that I am wrong. And because it is my right to believe what I wish.
I had about a two page rant from here on, but I deleted it. Because I realized no matter how much I believe my opinion is right, I cannot force it upon others. I choose not to preach. 'Tis a sad day though when I finally give up on saying that we should raise a generation of lovers, because I know it isn't going to happen, and I am a fool for being that optimistic.
But maybe I should've posted it anyway, because the truth is it's not preaching in a journal, it's an opinion and everyone should see it that way.
-sigh-
It had a little girl, probably like two years old, walking over to a pool probably 6 feet deep and trying to get on one of those floats...heh...then the screen goes black.
"Just tell your parents you weren't watching her because you were getting stoned, they'll understand."
"Be responsible" and it has the america drug-free logo
You know...it's sad when they have no other negative things to say other than side-affects that can be controlled by an experienced user.
That's it. The only things they can say are examples. Marijuana is about as bad for you physically as cigarettes, it hasn't affected me mentally I can garauntee except when I'm actually high (the effect then changes depending on who I'm around), and I find it hard to believe that anyone who has a little kid that age to watch is going to get high and ignore the kid, but hmm, lets see, OH YEAH - that's the only defense the damn anti-drug society feels it has. It has nothing else. They have no way of determining whether someone is high during a car accident, so any information they give there is from a blood sample/piss test which goes back quite farther than the amount of time they were driving. They have no proof of ill mental effects, they have not a damn thing. If it was really bad for you, they wouldn't say it's okay to use medically.
They have nothing. I laugh at their ignorance.
Another depicted a guy in his basement smoking a joint, probably 20+ years old, and his little brother walking down the stairs saying how he never dropped out of school, never got put in jail...but he 'never did anything' and therefore was stuck sitting on the couch.
So sad that they decide anyone who smokes marijuana won't be successful. Hah. So opinionated.
Someday humanity will realize that the only thing it has going for it is choices, and every single one that gets taken away is another step towards loss of freedom. Or maybe humanity will never realize it.
The social contract you might say. But I don't recall ever signing my freedom of choice away.
I am human, I will be what I want to be in face of all odds, I will stay the way I want to stay, and no one is going to stop me.
I would GLADLY die for my beliefs.
And don't you ever tell me I'm wrong for dressing the way I do, wrong for smoking marijuana, wrong for having faith in my Gods, for trying to become a Druid, for believing in magick or anything.
Because you can't prove that I am wrong. And because it is my right to believe what I wish.
I had about a two page rant from here on, but I deleted it. Because I realized no matter how much I believe my opinion is right, I cannot force it upon others. I choose not to preach. 'Tis a sad day though when I finally give up on saying that we should raise a generation of lovers, because I know it isn't going to happen, and I am a fool for being that optimistic.
But maybe I should've posted it anyway, because the truth is it's not preaching in a journal, it's an opinion and everyone should see it that way.
-sigh-
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Date: 2003-11-16 07:21 am (UTC)When they make laws about marijuana they are trying to limit the people who might actually start, and then destroy their lives.
In everything there will be people who can do it responsibly.
Many people smoke and are just fine.
Right now how society works, where we are all so inter connected, and dependant on each other, the less rules = the closer to anarchy.
In the end it's all down to the indiviudal, freedom creates, freedom destroys.
To me the society works on some levels(who makes the food, the computers and all the other things you use daily?).
I find the whole marijuana legality issue hard to tackle, because I don't know how the world would be if it had been legal up to now.
Would less people use it? More? How would this affect everything.
We are all doomed in the end I guess, one can try to give out accurate information in the meantime.
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Date: 2003-11-16 12:05 pm (UTC)Biased Opinion
Date: 2003-11-16 10:07 pm (UTC)Even my brother admits that weed slows him down. Is that such a good thing? I don't really understand the desire... but that's just me.
However, yes, it is your right to believe as you wish. It is my right to believe as I wish. And neither of us is wrong.
My proof will mean nothing to you, and yours means nothing to me. And on this topic, I fear we will have to disagree.
I don't think any less of you for it.
-Geoffrey
Re: Biased Opinion
Date: 2003-11-17 08:37 am (UTC)However, I observe even more when I'm high sometimes. Sometimes I don't. But I would have to say reflexes are strange because time ends up slowing down to about half the speed of what it normally is. Of course, that is my own subjected opinion, and I know we're going to differ geoffy because you're allergic, but the fact is i'm courteous enough that i wouldn't do it around an allergic person and if i have something important that needs done...i don't use it.
-sighs and shrugs-
Re: Biased Opinion
Date: 2003-11-17 08:38 am (UTC)However, a lot of times if i'm not happy when i start smoking, I get a depressed high.
So that doesn't work for me anymore. It used to be an escape, now it's just a recreational and sometimes religious thing. Turning that around would be my top priority though.