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I've never smoked pot but was raised that it was bad and the "hippies across town" were living proof. The welfare system in MN was really BAD back then and they took advantage.

I always associated pot with fat lazy hippies until I got older.

Now I have friends that indulge once in awhile but for me it's like...meh...I'm 45 years old, why try it now?

Couldn't the same thing be said for alcohol....

Don't get me wrong....I don't encourage it's use but the prohibition on Pot is hypocricy...plain and simple.....

On the plus side.....

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They lie about marijuana when they tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated.
The truth is, when you're high you can do everything you normally do, just as well.

The difference is, you realize that it's not worth the fugg'n effort!

I don't think Shirley is inhaling. She'd made a great Prez!

I keep getting calls from slow talking dimwits wanting to know if I like, you know, put in water tanks and drip irrigation to stuff.

Azzholes. F the pot smokers. They're morons and trashy people I got no use for em.

Funny story from a buddy:

"Piss Test Todd" comes to the job site. They start talking about a mutual acquaintance they both know that works his balls off 24/7/365. He is self employed and builds and remodels houses and lake cabins.

Anyway:

Buddy: "Hey what has so and so been up to?"

PTT: "Oh my God! He lost it! He went and bought a pound of weed and a tent and disappeared for 6 months!"

Buddy: "What?? HIM? That guy NEVER quits! What is he doing now?!"

PTT: "OH he's back. He just doesn't feel like doing a fugkin thing anymore"

One of the hardest working guys I know is a pothead. Just about Every other doper I know is pretty much a lowlife douchbag. People are people, most dope smokers are useless fugks...I've smoked my share in my youth, then I grew up.

One of the strangest things about these threads is all the absolute loser, hippy, welfare moochin, lazy, etc....smokers many of you seem to know about.
I know a fair amount of pot smokers. Every single one of them has a job and a house and a family and is doing great.

I think the difference is that when I say dope smoker, I'm talking about people who smoke pot multiple times every day. Responsible adults who smoke on occasion are a different case.JMO...

IME, frequency of smoking is not the issue. It's the capability of a person to handle their drugs in a manner that is responsible for them and not a safety hazard for anyone else. That's what it comes down to in my worthless opinion. Know plenty of people earning quite a bit in software who smoke a whole lot. make tons of money and have families and are raising normal kids. Some of these kids know their parent or parents smoke. Some don't. The ones that know don't like it generally and have no inclination to try it themselves. There's exception to every rule like the roommate I had for a few years. Parents were lazy potheads with .gov jobs, and he was a lazy, worthless, messy fugck. But he paid rent and bills on time and kept his mess to his bathroom and bedroom.

I see no redeeming value in it.. but sure see the costs of its use to society....

Don't have a clue why anyone sees any reason to diminish one's mental capacity, to function... or go thru a day...

but I don't drink alcohol either, but did in my college days for a year or so... and then dropped that habit when I saw some of my best buddies turning into alcoholics...

guess I don't need to be high to not give a damn about things that one shouldn't give a damn about anyway... guess its called maturing...

of well I hope everyone interested had a happy dope day...

If you follow the money, you'll find that the alcohol lobby is where the resistance comes from.

Following the the money back in history you will find the timber (paper) industry behind outlawing hemp/MJ. It was outlawed when the agriculture equipment was invented to take the intensive labor out of harvesting hemp and separating the fiber from the woody core of the plant.

Yeah, I'm not much on moral equivilents. "Weed is not as bad a booze, therefore weed is ok". Kinda like adultery is not as bad as theft, so it's ok.

Face it, weed makes people apathetic, lethargic and stupid. There is enough ot that to go around without having weed store pop up like Vape shops.

Drugs and alcohol reveal a persons character more than alter their character, in my experience. I was a heavy drinker/partier in college, but still kept good grades. One of the kids I knew smoked a lot, was on the golf team, pre-med yuppy type, and nobody would have guessed how much pot he smoked. Folks don't realize who the pot smokers are unless they let their own secret out most times.

I knew a judge once that was a pot/coke head, but still a successful guy, and nobody would have ever known until a rumor slipped that turned out to be true.

At my age now, I just don't think it is worth fighting the public and locking people away over pot. I wouldn't agree with harder drugs, drugs that are addicting becoming legal, but marijuana just isn't worth the cost to fight it, imo. Taxing it at 30+% and making a bundle of state tax revenue seems like the smarter move.

Just the opposite.

Alcohol is every bit as evil as weed.

Therefore, alcohol should be illegal, anyone using alcohol is a lazy, worthless, no account, phucquing idiot who can't hold down a steady job, is a constant danger to all around him or her, basically isn't worth a sh*t and should be jailed. Alcohol dealers - 7-11 clerks, Piggly-Wiggly store managers and so forth, should be executed.

Anything less is hypocrisy, plain and simple.

Personal responsibilty is all I ask.

You are responsible for what you do with alcohol, drugs, texting, calling, putting makeup on, not showing for work, etc....

The gun is not at fault, the "shooter" is.

Now how do you cover the costs of drugs/alcohol treatment, thats a big issue, but if it was down to you being responsible for your actions, there would be a lot less policing etc... required.

If they can do it, and pay for it, and their life style without any of my tax money, then OK. But, I don't see that happening. miles

I did my share back when. But having been an Employer or Manager most of my life there are three words that affect my views about this now.

Workman Compensation Claims...

Exactly like Hatari is stating... Weed turns people's brains into DemocRATs....

coming back from Portland this past weekend, on old Hwy 99W, passed thru one small town.... and here is this yoyo, holding this sign ( say 36 inches x 36 inches) with a big green cross on it ( like the Red Cross symbol, only Green instead)...that is the symbol all of this pot selling locations are using to symbolize maryjane for medicinal purposes.. which is a sham...

but this idiot is walking out into traffic, on the dividing line and pointing to the store that sells the crap....speed limit was only 25 mph, but he's still standing out in front of cars, for people to have to slow down even slower to avoid clipping him...

when folks honked their horn at him for being in the middle of the road with his sign, he flips them the bird...

of course he looked the part... dreadlocks, hadn't shaved or bathed in weeks...yellow cruddy looking teeth...

personally I think the idiot was probably stoned, along with being hopped up on meth....

yeah, that's one of the social problems I see since they legalized it here in this state....


you don't see drunks out in the middle of the road, with a sign blocking traffic to point out the bar he's trying to draw attention to...so others can get drunk like him....