Anti-Marijuana ads

[MajorDamage]

Originally posted by InfinatyBPS


Do you even know why its illegal? Do you actualy beleive the government made it illegal because they care about your health? Do you think that marijuana is considerably more destructive that tabbaco and alchohol? If so you need to check yourself and go do some reading up. Don't just take what the media feeds you, and think its right. The government wants everyone to think that marijuana is some horrible, evil thing that only bad people that need to be imprisoned use. Also, do you people relize that the active chemical in weed is THC, which has NO ADDICTIVE PROPERTIES!!!! Ask your chemistry or bio teacher, and if they are cool enough to be able to talk about it honestly they will tell you that it isn't an addictive substance.

I feel the same way about weed as I do about cigarettes and alchohol, commercials telling people not to do these things are good. Ive seen people high and drunk and people who are high or drunk do stupid things they would never do while sober, making yourself stupid so you can lose sense of reality is irresponsible and wrong. If you can't live life regular but rather have to glaze yourself over with something that makes you lose touch with reality that seems like the weaklings way out. Most people do these things to escape reality, grow up and face things. Life sucks, boo hoo, I'm gonna forget about my problems by smoking some weed, or getting drunk. Then after Ive drank so much I cut my hand open losing nerves in my hand permantly. Happened the other day to one of my Manager's husbands. Felt the need to get drunk with his buddies, and just acting stupid swung a knife around and cut his hand up and now has his hand really messed up. Now I bet if you saw this on a commercial you'd be talking about how "Oh thats not gonna happen, they are just making it seem worse", yeah right whatever. Perscription drugs even! My father got addicted to perscription drugs, "oh those are legal, theres nothing wrong with those" he wrecked sveral cars, more than I can even count, and got in so many accedents its unbelievable. For several years almost every month he'd be in the hospital. Grow up, and be the best person you can be. Theres too much crap out there and people need to realize drugs and alchohol can't help you in any way, they kill brain cells, make you act stupid, make you do things you'd normally never do, and for what? So you can get yourself a shiney new addiction, a new place for all your cash to go, another thing to try and hide, another reason to get scared whenever you see a cop...Theres no plus side to it. Or then theres the people who do it because of peer pressure, to all of those people out there BE WHO YOU ARE don't do ANTHING just to be accepted. If so and so wont accept you if you don't drink/smoke/do drugs then someone else will. Who cares if marijuana had nothing wrong with it other than you just get high, you still do stupid things while high. Theres other things you can get a bigger high on than drugs and alchohol...

ENDO!

[steveg]

Yes Army 4 of my fellow countrymen are dead.
tell me that the "official" drugs didn't contribute to
that.

We Canadians are debating the illegality of grass right
now There are way too many lives affected,not by grass
it's self but by A government making something illegal and
punishing people for doing it. Hemp (grass) used to grow
wild around here.

Usually libertarians strike me as silly in their views as
your extreme liberals AND consevatives, but I absolutley
agree with Harry Browne.

When a government presumes to tell you how to spend your
private life,that is an unexceptable intrusion.

Drug illegality is as useless and as harmfull as alcohol
prohibition, and has directly and indirectly ruined far
more lives than actual drug use.

For the record I have smoked the stuff in the past on occasion and drink 2 bottles of beer a week.
And I do agree with Army if you think you "need" any of this stuff including the beer You need to do a bit of
self examination.
Thursday night beer and chicken wings however are life-or-death

[petefol]

Originally posted by MrMag
the number of deaths caused by marijuana.................0

can i see some statistics from a respectable source?

[-=Squid=-]

Originally posted by cphilip
Squid, stop being so judgmental and annoying. It doesn't help your arguement at all and its flaming to do it that way.

Ya, well I have strong feelings against people who do drugs. You think its ok?

EDIT: I Think I should ellaborate.

Annoying? How is it annoying? Is it any more annoying than some guy flashing how proud he is because he smokes weed?

Also, I dont care if it helps my argument. You tihnk if I kindly said, please stop smoking marijuana he would quit? NO! This is an online forum, me saying ANYTHING will change nothing, and there is no point arguing over it.

[LittleKrems]

i'll probably will never try pot, cuz i have ways to be happy other than using drugs. but saying people that smoke pot are idiots, thats just not cool. some of my best friends smoke and they are some of the nicest people i know. dont say all pot smokers are a waste, cuz chances are your friends with one of them

EDIT: i want to hear phils story, unless somehow i missed it

[shartley]

[MrMag]

Originally posted by petefol

can i see some statistics from a respectable source?

No information about marijuana-related deaths exists on the Website of the National Institute of Drug Abuse.

http://www.nida.nih.gov/

[Automaggin2]

Originally posted by cphilip
Then you are not paying attention.

Notice the asterisks? Those are violations!

I will tell you a story about the downfall of one person with Mary Jane tomorrow. I am too tired to go into it now. But it was eventualy fatal and it involves mostly the results of cronic use and the lack of motivation that results from that. Its a true story that affected my life. It is not intended to sound like I am preaching to you or anything like that. But its true and its real and it did happen. And its something to consider. Something to take into account when you decide what right and wrong for you. Not something I am proud of but if it helps to share and tell the whole story then I will tell it. Just will have to think on what parts I can tell and what I cannot. Tune in tomorrow and see...

Ill tell you a story about a friend whose life is screwed because of alcohol. Ill post it later, im in class right now

[Jack_Dubious]

Originally posted by shartley

I only brought up the "go pills" issue because of Army's post about not wanting someone who was under the influence of a substance in his foxhole. Which i agree with...in combat you definately dont want to trust your life with someone who is drunk/stoned/tweaked/etc.
I was just pointing out that the person flying around trying to give him close air support, could be on Speed. I am not speaking out against the practice im just trying to balance out peoples strong opinions...

And dont BS me about that not being a flame, while I may just be an ignorant civilian.....ive been Online long enough to know what a flame is....

JDub

[Automaggin2]

Originally posted by Army
If you are sharing my foxhole and are stoned, drunk, or sketching, I will shoot you myself before you compromise the mission, the lives of those men I command, and my life.

So many studies have shown, that being stoned affects your brain function the same as alcohol. Many of you say that we "should" get stoned, "need" to be stoned, should use it to "get away from it all". Stay away from me and mine. If you can't handle the sun rising and falling each day, I don't want your weak self near me.

Grow up and live life, instead of hiding from it.

Studies? Yeah? Studies? i did a study and found out tobacco can cause the same effects as crack ...a lot of sutdies are BS, and are made up. In order to study it, you hgave to expierence it, you cant just look at the chemical make up and say o well, that chem,ical does that to the brain, this does that, blah blah blah. Being drunk is COMPLETLY DIFFERENT then being high

[Automaggin2]

Originally posted by magman007
Phil, o for one would like to hear your story, maybe it may wake some people up. Marajuanna is "cool" today, because people like acting that way? does any one think its attractive? Il admit, yes i tried it once, and never again, i like having control of my self.


Also, marajuanna changes your brain chemistry. It takes your nice clear brain liquid, and turns it into a grey sludge, this is what makes you slow. Marajuanna is nothing to be proud of, and Transman, you even noted that you have seen performance decrease in school. IM assuming you dont care, well, have fun working down at the A&P and being a manager, because if you dont take care of your life now, your not going to get too far in the end.


These are my personal views, and based on scientific fact, and personal experiences with friends, relatives, etc. Nothing was peant to be offensive or malicious, olny informative

hahahaaa......o man.....turns your brain into slush? Dont think so. Freshman year of high schoo, my grades were horrible, 2.0 GPA, then when i started smoking pot, it happens my grades went up to a 3.2.....ironic? coincedental or no?

[Restola]

Originally posted by Automaggin2
Dont think so. Freshman year of high schoo, my grades were horrible, 2.0 GPA, then when i started smoking pot, it happens my grades went up to a 3.2.....ironic? coincedental or no?

Interesting. Lets put that in a commercial.

[-=Squid=-]

Originally posted by Automaggin2



hahahaaa......o man.....turns your brain into slush? Dont think so. Freshman year of high schoo, my grades were horrible, 2.0 GPA, then when i started smoking pot, it happens my grades went up to a 3.2.....ironic? coincedental or no?

ok, your post makes you sound rather intelligent

[lopxtc]

My .02 ....

As a former active duty Marine I too share the same feeling as Army ... I dont want a single Marine in my unit or another unit hopped up on anything that will jepordize the mission or the health and well-begin of another Marine in my platoon. While I was in the Marines I did not smoke ... never saw a reason to playing with my demo kit and shooting for my units rifle/pistol team was more then enough fun ...

Also being in a front line grunt unit, I made friends with several Corpsmen and got some inside details of allot of the "drugs" maintained by the US military. Yes there are "go" pills, and the infamous "Hot Shots", and more ... and yes there are times and places for all of this, but again these are taken with the understanding of what it does to you.

As a civilian I admit that I do smoke here and there ... and never have a I felt the desire to run out and do other drugs.

As with everything in life moderation and a basic understanding of what you are doing is required. I never smoke in public, only at home ... I never attempt to drive or do anything other then munch snacks and watch movies (BTW I highly recommend "American Beauty" and "Moulin Rouge" as great movies to watch).

But I also do this with the understanding that I am putting a foreign substance into my body ... same thing I do with beer, knowing full well that beer(wine, etc) destroys brain cells.

So am I breaking the law? Yes ... will I pay for it if I am caught? Yes ... and I understand this ... thats why I dont do anything stupid by trying to believe that I can drive while stoned. Again understanding and moderation are the keys to everything ... even more so when ingesting legal or illegal drugs.


Aaron

[-=Squid=-]

personally I feelt hat cigarrets should be made illegal, or something of the sort. There is no point to them, I mean, what doyo u get out of them? The only answer im sure I will get is that they relieve stress. Well guess what, if you never smoked you dont need them to relieve stress!