Alex Finlay wrote:1. How could weed be more productive when using it you cant even move about?
2. You can't say another drug is as worse as another just because of different side affects. H-Bomb is different from the atomic in 1 way, still mean's the atomic bomb is bad.
3. Of course the visual side affects are bad but i still don't want to waste 1 out of my few billion brain cells, as you can't get them back.
4. Doing any drug imo is dumb.
Alex, I've broken your post up a bit in order to respond to the different points you make. I tend to know more than my fair share about controlled substances so here we go.
1. It's pretty clear to tell that you haven't smoked weed and use commercials as your reference. Weed does not make you incapacitated to the point that you cannot move. It can make you drowsy, sure, but it's a "natural" drowsiness and not a "manufactured" drowsiness, and what I mean by that is that it's not like taking cough pills to become tired or drinking alcohol and becoming tired. I've even personally known 4 track athletes from when I was in High School that would smoke together before a meet so that they wouldn't feel aches in their joints as they were running, so "not being able to move" is clearly not a side-effect, although for some people, they choose not to because smoking weed makes you feel comfortable.
2. Comparing weapons of mass destruction to small-time recreational drugs like marijuana is highly unfair to do. The only similarity you can say is that both are chemically different when compared to their counterparts. If you are saying that it's unfair to say drugs are better or worse from another because of their side effects then you
are implying that drinking too much cough syrup is the same thing as using meth or ketamine or something else, which is just not true. Of course you can judge drugs as being "better" or "worse" from another due to their side-effects. That's why drugs are called different things... that's what the United States government lists them as "schedule I" or "schedule II" drugs and so on under the "Controlled Substances Act" of 1970. And if you were to look up marijuana specifically, you'd see it rated in schedule I, or "the most dangerous" ones, even though it isn't. Governmental studies and government-funded research will claim that marijuana is extremely dangerous even though it isn't - which is proven by much more abundant independent research. The reason marijuana is schedule I is because it is a "gateway drug", meaning, most people who try out marijuana find out that it benefits them and they enjoy using it, so they think they would enjoy other drugs and try them out. Because of its "gateway drug" appeal, marijuana is "dangerous" in that sense, because it can potentially lead people to try more powerful and dangerous controlled substances, like meth and what-not.
3. You only have one life to live. I always say "I'll try anything twice". I may be more adventurous than others, and I'm not encouraging you or anyone else to do drugs, but when all is said and done, you'll end up as an old man who has lost his mind anyways. If you are responsible with drug use, the paths end up in the same place. And I know it seems odd to say it's possible to "be responsible while doing drugs", but you can - it's entirely possible. Just like people say "be responsible" when drinking. Some people think that's impossible but any alcoholic can tell you the difference from responsible and irresponsible in that regard.
4. Doing any drug
is dumb. So is premarital sex. So is aligning yourself with a stereotype. So is lying, skipping school, drinking energy drinks and soda, and so is playing with chickens and dressing up in Dorothy costumes... but some people call that "living their life" and both people, even though their opinions are entirely different, are both entirely correct.
-DarkPacMan77-
Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:58 am 
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