ZetaMan Posted March 10, 2014 Author Posted March 10, 2014 Pretty much what Dylan laid out. Given a choice, lifting prohibition would be a good idea on multiple fronts including economies. My only issue has ever been the fact that all economic activity around weed that wont get you thrown in jail is inextricably tied to an artificially limited currency. Now why in god's name did you have to vote down my last post? Was it really worth your energy? Did it hurt your feelings or something?
cab21 Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 the currency problem i think has the same principle, of legalizing competition of currency and competition of banking that does with that. i don't even know how people do the downvotes on the forum, that part of the forum seems a bit strange.
ZetaMan Posted March 10, 2014 Author Posted March 10, 2014 Ah! I figured it out now. You have to regularly donate to FDR to cast a vote.
Carl Green Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 I haven't had time to read the entire thread as I'm at work. I just wanted to add that it is important to realize it is not necessarily the cannabis that's making people "stupid", but "stupid" people using cannabis. Plenty of intelligent and rational people use it.
ZetaMan Posted March 10, 2014 Author Posted March 10, 2014 I haven't had time to read the entire thread as I'm at work. I just wanted to add that it is important to realize it is not necessarily the cannabis that's making people "stupid", but "stupid" people using cannabis. Plenty of intelligent and rational people use it. And as Joe Rogan (stand-up comic, Fear Factor presenter, famous podcaster) once skillfully said: "If weed ruined your life it's because weed got there first".
Carl Green Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 And as Joe Rogan (stand-up comic, Fear Factor presenter, famous podcaster) once skillfully said: "If weed ruined your life it's because weed got there first". Joe Rogan says many things which I keep my grains of salt handy for. Weed doesn't necessarily make people addicted to weed.
ZetaMan Posted March 10, 2014 Author Posted March 10, 2014 Joe Rogan says many things which I keep my grains of salt handy for. Weed doesn't necessarily make people addicted to weed. FYI, I only mentioned the man because he said it first and to repeat without giving due credit is just plagiarism. Does anything make anyone addicted to anything? I smoked pot as a teenager, and a year into my experiments I started smoking cigarettes. Gave up pot when I was 20, and at 24 I gave up smoking cigarettes for 15 months. Started smoking cigarettes again. 2 years later started smoking pot again. All of that came down to two factors: availability and having things in my life that sufficiently took my attention away from those things. The times I really felt the pangs of withdrawal from cigarettes was when I wasn't in the best emotional space. So I seriously question whether anything less than heroin or crank is physically addictive.
dsayers Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 FYI, I only mentioned the man because he said it first and to repeat without giving due credit is just plagiarism. Not one word in this sentence is original, so plagiarism as you've implied its definition here would apply to this sentence also. I don't even see the Rogan quote as being the same as what Mr. Bartlet said. All of that came down to two factors: availability and having things in my life that sufficiently took my attention away from those things. How do you know? You're relying on anecdotal evidence to make a truth claim while not making any effort to look into the actual explanation. In response to traumatic experiences, the brain isn't able to maintain certain chemical balances on its own. Those who habitually seek external chemicals to compensate for this seek it out due to this biological need. This is not the same as chance availability or not having anything better to do. If what you're saying here is true, you're not describing addiction.
ZetaMan Posted March 11, 2014 Author Posted March 11, 2014 Want to hold your horses there, soldier? Maybe you read my post (which happened to be part of a conversation with someone who isn't you) ass-backwards. Maybe I was saying that my halting the use of tobacco and weed were due to accessibility and my own happiness (which, by the way, renders your determinism rubbish faulty). But of course you wouldn't necessarily understand what was being said because you barged into a blindin' (Irish colloquialism - expletive) conversation betwixed two other people. What the sh*t is your major malfunction? Joe Rogan would agree with me that the use of language on that level can be owned by he who first coined it or he who recently mastered it through the strength of his character. There's two people as a prime example, and 1,000s more who agree. We have a commons. Where this idea comes from is the highly esteemed society of stand up comedy, and I was speaking from that position. But that's yet another subtlety of language I've observed fly right over your head. What kinda autistic bullsh*t is this?
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