At least a joint would have just made those kids get the munchies, and at worst laugh uncontrollably.

I can perfectly imagine, that alcohol is dangerous, because you drink 2 bottles of tequila with champagne, then slide into the car, and go 200mph without even finding gear level 2
is dangerous.

I can flawlessly think, if you drink a glass of beer, and get in a car, you can drive safely, even if listening to metal-music, so it
is safe.

If you were the smokemeselftodeath type, who doesn’t consider the flavor of the stuff, and sample it before enjoying fully – then dude, you the same with everything else, drink, tv, and as overprotective father.

Gavrielle’s history lesson about USA is interesting!
But why we on the other side of Earth, a longtime feudal country switching immediateli to communism, then back be influenced by it?

Peace
Global Warming
Shave the whales

My hero! was hoping someone would find time to post some links, instead of rambling about their own love/hate relationship with big bad scary DRUGS.

You are awesome! Thanks for the post mate.
KeeP the Scene Alive.

Dont make the same mistakes..

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cheers

My point is, you can never be sure when or where or even if a mind altering substance will effect your brain chemistry negatively. Please don’t make assumptions when other lives – not just your own – may hang in the balance.

Ever see someone get non-stop panic attacks when stoned? Or someone laughing so hard they can’t stop or even hold the wheel steady? Or someone tailgating someone all the way home because they’re fixated on the car in front of them?

I’ve seen it and they sure as hell don’t do that when sober. Even if they’re good drivers, it just went out the window. I’m fine driving stoned, but weed as with any drug, effects people differently.

“Suffice to say that the people that sell Z0loft, Pax1l, V1agra, V1codin, Tyl3nol 3, Pr0zac, etc, etc, etc have a large interest in making sure that a curative herb (because herbs basically have no regulation, unlike prescription meds) never gains wide acceptance.

So we should give up one kind of pharmaceutical for another just because you can’t name all the psychotropics in marijuana?

There is nothing “curative” about marijuana except that it will temporarily take your blues away. And after it does that it will hit you with a severe depression that will screw with your head something fierce.

Regulate it? Absolutely! But don’t kid yourself. It is a drug like any other you listed. It works on the brain just like crack, just like Zoloft, just like Aspirin, et. al.

Oh, and the reason for those laws being instituted in the US was to stop companies like COKE-a-cola, PEP-si, and 7-UP which ALL contained cocaine from using a “non-alcoholic” beverage to distribute the drug to unsuspecting women and children, who were their primary customers. Until that time “Tonics” and “Cure-alls” of every kind also contained opiates as well. These drugs were killing people by the thousands every day in big cities and small towns, rich and poor alike.

Drug addiction (unintentionally acquired addictions for the most part!) were rampant at the end of the 19th century and early 20th. And not only in the US, but throughout Europe. Our ancestors did their best to regulate and stop the pain being inflicted on the masses by greedy corporations and fly-by-night snake oil sales men, but as with many of the solutions implemented in those days, they often threw the baby out with the bath water.

I’m not saying you are wrong about the drug companies of today being greedy swine, but don’t be dense. There had to be a huge social problem in the first place for the people of turn of the century America to agree to ANY regulation at all. Remember, these people would just as soon lynch a public official as vote for him if they didn’t like his policies. We may be politically uninvolved, but to our ancestors freedom meant life and government regulation meant death. That’s why there was so darn little of it until the 20th century!

IMO the most dangerous way to drive is tired. I’ve nearly died a few times just from being drowsy on the highway and almost nodding off. Being high (on weed) doesn’t impair me at all.

I’d be more afraid of the people who are pulling an all nighter. That should be illegal.