. . . and damn, are they ever right.
I mean, if you get involved with marijuana, and the cops catch you with a small amount, they may bully you into cooperating with one of their drug investigations — which can get you killed.
Or, if you use marijuana, and have a small amount of marijuana in your home, you may get shot to death by police during a raid. In fact, marijuana is so dangerous that police may shoot you when they raid your home if they just think you may have it. And it goes without saying that marijuana is dangerous to your dog, who may get shot during a raid.
And I need not remind you that if you have preexisting health condition, marijuana can kill you. For instance, if you are a paraplegic who requires adequate medical care to live, if you get caught with marijuana a sociopathically indifferent judge may condemn you to death by sending you to a jail that cannot care for you.
But that's not all. Marijuana encourages lawlessness — by encouraging law enforcement to disregard laws. It turns parents against children — through state-run programs encouraging children to inform on their parents. In fact, marijuana is so dangerous that merely speaking of it in less than condemning tones can lead to you losing your job . . . with the government.
If you were a hand-wringing soft-on-crime looney liberal, a damned dirty hippie, you might say that the thread running through all of this is that the War on Drugs is dangerous, not marijuana.
But of course good Americans have listened to Nancy Reagan, listened to the nice DARE officers, listened to the decades of public officials exhorting us to win the War on Drugs, and they know the truth: it's marijuana that's dangerous.
I've smoked weed from the time I was 14 til I was in my mid 40s.
ReplyDeleteNever missed a days work due to a hangover, never went into debt over it, never had a problem with it.
If my job didn't frown on it and I was so close to being eligble to retire, I'd still be smoking it.
It's completely harmless if used responsibly.
It's even more dangerous when it causes six state-sponsored terrorists to get smoked while invading the wrong citizen's home.
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Heh:) Reminds me of......
ReplyDeletePhnom Penh, Cambodia
http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=202&highlight=phnom+penh
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........we thought we should purchase some grass, but had a difficult time finding it until we found a Vietnamese girl in the marketplace who we could speak to in her native language. She promptly showed us some, which was in full view. It was legal there, and the Cambodians use it for a flavoring for some of their soups. When we got to our rooms in the hotel, we proceeded to see how good this "Cambodian Red" really was.......Well, it must have been quite good, as the two of us were unable, after many tries, to come up with the same amount of cash which we were counting in order to tell the hotel clerk how much we had in order to put it into their safe! So, we meekly went to the desk and when the clerk asked us how much we had before he counted it, we said that we had forgotten to, and his count would do. He looked at us very strangely, counted it, then told us the amount, and we said that it was fine!
Afterwards we hailed two cyclos whose drivers turned out to love grass. So they rolled it into big cigars and they would pedal us around as all four of us puffed away!