This just chapps my rear...

[SlartyBartFast]

With respect to the "study".

There's an old saying: "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure."

Quoting/performing studies out of context, with out a control group, or without proper cause and effect is like quoting snipets of the Bible. You can prove anything.

[Brak]

people relating that crap just makes me angry too.

im surprised transman hasnt said anything yet...

[Trigger_Happy]

Re: Re: This just chapps my rear...

Originally posted by Albinonewt


That's just silly. Everyone knows that if you want to fight weed you have to close all Taco Bells (the late night place where pot heads get their snacks)

Actually, in my town, that's where the drugs get sold too :) It's funny, because the lazy cops don't ever bust them! If they are being too obvious, sometimes a cop will bust them on curfew...yes, curfew.

[Dubstar112]

What is next? Help fight the war on drugs! A study showed that 8 out of 10 people who smoked marijuana also eat apple pie. If we outlaw apple pie we can help reduce the use of illegal drugs!

- Munchies-?? lol

Yeah, I dont see a correlation there. My PIG teacher and my history teacher bring stuff like this up all day, and they are good at it.

Like communism. We were once scared that communist would take over, (not too long after were their allies too) that we out lawed every thing communist. We are scared that drugs will do the same, so we outlaw every thing that can be associated.(DAMN COMMIES!!!lol)

3.14159265358979 + apple = Apple pi

[Lohman446]

How about this, make it legal, regulate it, and tax the hell out of it.

I have NEVER done any illegal drug (that I know of), I have been known to drink once in awhile, and I have smoked on occassion - why do we feel, as a country, the need to regulate everything. I do not beleive in smoking, doing drugs, etc. - however, I beleive the only power the federal government has over this is to regulate its crossing of state lines, and the power to tax it (maybe). The states are another story - let them set laws as need be (though I beleive laws against above used in the privacy of ones own home, without causing a danger to others, may be unconstitutional) Anyways... just a thought, easily ignored... I wish it could be done, but I do not beleive it can.

[845]

The majority of kids who smoke pot at my school do not smoke cigarettes regularly. A lot of them actually look down on it.

[Albinonewt]

Originally posted by PyRo


Yes, if we elimated the supply there would be no more problem. However where there is a demand there will be a supply. How much money are we spending now to "eliminate the supply"? How many drugs are confinscated? Do you really thing that the drugs they find are even one fourth of the amount that is out there? I bet even after the goverment has spent billions of dollars to eliminate the supply there are several pounds of weed on this campus right now, and although ive never seen any I bet there are other drugs around here too.

That's because we really aren't fighting the problem, we just kind of half way fight it. If we got serious and firmly and completely controlled our borders you bet we could wipe out the foreign supply. Keeping tabs on domestic supply would face varying levels of difficulty depending on what you were looking for.

[steveg]

Or you could just dump the whole damn idea of control,
and spend a tiny fraction of that control money on rehab
were wanted or needed , as if anyone actually needed rehab
for MJ.

[SlartyBartFast]

Originally posted by steveg
Or you could just dump the whole damn idea of control,
and spend a tiny fraction of that control money on rehab
were wanted or needed , as if anyone actually needed rehab
for MJ.

As soon as I read that post I was doubtful that it came from an American.

It's much the same argument as wondering how the world might have been different if we had spent a few million a year to open schools and hospital is Afganistan and Pakistan. Or, more close to home fighting poverty, illiteracy, and housing, and education issues instead of concentrating more on police strength and jail time.

Rarely is anything black and white. But on the other hand you can't deal with things in a nuanced manner unless average citizens are willing to live up to their responsibilities. Which is unlikely these days. Everything is always someone else's fault.

[PyRo]

Actually alot of drugs are made right here. how many kids do you think have weed plants?

[Crighton]

For a while MJ was TN's major cash crop.

[SlartyBartFast]

Originally posted by Crighton
For a while MJ was TN's major cash crop.

Are you sure that wasn't Hemp? Can't smoke hemp. Well, you could but there's no high.

Hemp was once a major cash crop in Canada as well. The anti-MJ crusades killed the hemp market though. hemp can make better paper and clothes than many/most of the natural fibres usually used.

[Crighton]

No not hemp. The actual mind altering THC packing MJ. Its still a major cash crop in TN. Its not legal to farm it but that doesnt stop thousands of people from doing it.