I do mention it alot, but this is on the internet, so some backstory must be involved.
I like drugs. I do drugs. I have had a job since I was 15 and am paying my way through college. I am an adult, so don't speak for me and tell me what my life will or has become.
V-Adore: you may be correct about the statistics, but that is generally your drunk college guy. I think another interesting statistic would be how often I have talked about tobacco. Probably 3 to 4 times, all in context. How many times have I talked about being drunk? I don't know, but most are probably when I was apologizing for making drunk comments (i'll go ahead and apologize now if I say anything bad here). How many times do caffeine users talk about coffee? Any Xanax users? Adderall? Alright, well all of those drugs, with the possible exception of caffeine, are stronger than weed. Why do I talk about it? Because pharmaceutical and alcohol and tobacco companies and people who think that drug use is bad and pop an aspirin are in this world. Sometimes they are helpful, sometimes not, but unfortunately, it makes me and others like myself criminals, which makes it a pretty big issue to me.
I'll make you a deal, any one here gives me a valid, rational, non-hypocritical and non-political reason on why marijuana should be illegal while tobacco and alcohol remain legal and I will never mention any drug on this board again.
Also, while your at it, perhaps someone could explain why, if marijuana is so bad, nearly all of the greatest thinkers of the past 50 years have used it? Is Bob Dylan a criminal? Keith Richards? That guy you know (everyone knows them)? "Go ahead and just burn your fuck*ng record collection" (poorly paraphrased Bill Hicks)
Alright, maybe. How about Carl Sagan? Clinton? Bush? (well, uh, yeah, but not for that)
Can we at least agree that pot smokers can be very component people (definitely as much so as Xanax, that shit straight turns off part of your head), some of the most creative our society has ever seen, that many, many, many (97%?) people have some mind changing habit, and mainly that not everyone, especially adult drug users go around "LOLING ABOUT HOW DRUNK WE ARE". No, that is what you do in high school, maybe freshman year of college. Not many people I know brag about their drug use. They simply do it because they like or have to. It is not high school, but of course maybe you all are right. Maybe that is the impression you get because you work with a bunch of annoying ass old alcoholics. I mean, Vonnegut says that High School represents American life better than anything else. That could mean people act the same way. Maybe you all are right, and that it is just going to be some huge fuck*ng joke and I am going to regress back in to a clicked out asshole.