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Re: Marijuna
Then in the fall, liberal bent Democrat Dianne Feinstein joined with the president of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers and came out publically against the measure, citing a number of studies (I recall reading the Rand study) that clearly indicated that pot prevalence on the street would greatly increase if legalization occurred, which, of course, does indeed make sense. This would lead to even more kids getting hooked on drugs and increase, the study showed, the number of traffic accidents (and thus maimings and fatalities) caused by pot DUi.
That was enough to encourage citizens even in a non-presidential year to go to the polls and defeat that dangerous measure, in a very liberal state, mind you.
Like you say, no one wants kids doing drugs.
Yet studies show that nearly everyone who got hooked on drugs started as a kid, many very young.
And, considering that it's an understandable given that legalization would make pot more plentiful, increasing the frequency of hooking more addictive kids, parents who are genuinely concerned about their kids just said "No!" ..
.. And understandably so.
Is being a psychological/physiological addict really a "choice"?
No, not at all.
I realize that those who fear losing personal freedoms to an ideology opposite their own ideology will downplay the realities that work against their own ideology, that is, in this case, they might choose to ignore that certain behaviors simply aren't conscious choices in orientation they would then like to conveniently think that they are.
Hopefully those who respect reality will continue to fight the good fight for truth. If that means pot remains illegal, then so be it, just as long as the argumentation made for either position respects the truth.
On another though related front, street pot has no redeeming social value, none whatsoever. It isn't marinol, it isn't a pharmaceutical medicine, etc., etc. It's just a drug, for the purposes of feeding addicts, that functions as a depressant at best, and, as the link I previously posted accurately presents, damages brain and body while it dumbs the user down. Why would anyone want to do or say anything in support of that?!
With regard to the understandable increase in prevalence of drugs legalization would inflict upon our country, well, the last thing we need is a bunch of utilitarian relativists "ignorantly" causing us to go the demising way of the Greek, Roman, and the like democracies before us, when everything became about pleasure, fun and games, and the "voters" said to hell with responsibility, accountability .. and truth.
Back in the fall of 2010, California had a pot legalization measure on the ballot. It was touch and go for awhile as to which way the very liberal state would go, many thinking CA might be the first to enact such a revolutionary law, despite the fact that the fed threatened it would most certainly fight it and step up arrests of those possessing controlled substances (and pot is understandably a federally controlled substance).No, I don't advocate children smoking pot at all. They are minors, and pot-smoking should be restricted to minors just as booze and cigarettes are.
Then in the fall, liberal bent Democrat Dianne Feinstein joined with the president of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers and came out publically against the measure, citing a number of studies (I recall reading the Rand study) that clearly indicated that pot prevalence on the street would greatly increase if legalization occurred, which, of course, does indeed make sense. This would lead to even more kids getting hooked on drugs and increase, the study showed, the number of traffic accidents (and thus maimings and fatalities) caused by pot DUi.
That was enough to encourage citizens even in a non-presidential year to go to the polls and defeat that dangerous measure, in a very liberal state, mind you.
Like you say, no one wants kids doing drugs.
Yet studies show that nearly everyone who got hooked on drugs started as a kid, many very young.
And, considering that it's an understandable given that legalization would make pot more plentiful, increasing the frequency of hooking more addictive kids, parents who are genuinely concerned about their kids just said "No!" ..
.. And understandably so.
So, is being gay a "choice", Lizzie?Drug use is always a choice. Some people have addictive personalities, and in that case, stopping drug use is extremely difficult, but the choice is always there. I advocate for personal responsibility and not for the blame game. Whatever people do is their own responsibility to correct if their actions are determined to be destructive.
Is being a psychological/physiological addict really a "choice"?
No, not at all.
I realize that those who fear losing personal freedoms to an ideology opposite their own ideology will downplay the realities that work against their own ideology, that is, in this case, they might choose to ignore that certain behaviors simply aren't conscious choices in orientation they would then like to conveniently think that they are.
Hopefully those who respect reality will continue to fight the good fight for truth. If that means pot remains illegal, then so be it, just as long as the argumentation made for either position respects the truth.
On another though related front, street pot has no redeeming social value, none whatsoever. It isn't marinol, it isn't a pharmaceutical medicine, etc., etc. It's just a drug, for the purposes of feeding addicts, that functions as a depressant at best, and, as the link I previously posted accurately presents, damages brain and body while it dumbs the user down. Why would anyone want to do or say anything in support of that?!
With regard to the understandable increase in prevalence of drugs legalization would inflict upon our country, well, the last thing we need is a bunch of utilitarian relativists "ignorantly" causing us to go the demising way of the Greek, Roman, and the like democracies before us, when everything became about pleasure, fun and games, and the "voters" said to hell with responsibility, accountability .. and truth.