Trouble is you either have these corrupt oligarchies or you get a radicalized islamic govt. It's a lose-lose situation. It's a shame that they can't have a nice secular/democratic government. People can then practice religion freely but not have it government mandated.

I'm saying it's a trivial issue. It's like writing thousands of threads about why skateboarding should be legal in public parking lots. There are far more important issues such as the economy, rights issues, health care, taxes, etc. I'd rather focus on those issues than on why one mind altering substance is arbitrarily legal and another is illegal.

sonicare

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Thats exactly what we need. A bunch of high people on the roads

TheMightyHoov

I want to know what OT's obsession with marijuana is. It's just a drug. Sure it could be legal, but who honestly cares. There lots of things that should be legal that aren't. Why don't you guys make obsessive topics about those things as well? Hell, saccarin was just found to be non cancer causing. Don't see you celebrating that.

sonicare

It's about as harmful in long term use as alcohol and tobacco. I don't want to use it, but why not let the folks who do have at it? Is saturating prisons in the war on drugs with non-violent pot users really serving society?Danm_999

[QUOTE="quiglythegreat"] well no, but don't you think we should encourage that? although beer actually is way harder than growing anything on your own because it requires rather a lot of equipment.HoolaHoopMan

Well I do think it would be a good idea if people had their own gardens, however I merely used it as an analogy, I wasn't demonizing it.

However I would say that brewing beer is easier. You have to manually tend to a plant through out it's life until harvesting it. With beer you really only have to create the Wort in one day and let it brew for a couple of weeks depending on what style you're going for.

[QUOTE="quiglythegreat"]

it's not very ridiculous though. I think people need to become more self-sufficient in general. during WWI, gov't propaganda encouraged citizens to develop their own private gardens so that more rations could be given to the troops. so, you see, the gov't actually was ok with that kind of thing because it was strategically and commercially advantageous. now, agriculture has become another industry of mass production and subpar product. what I'm getting at is that growing your own weed, or growing your own anything, is not so difficult, and that organic food, though beneficial to the public health, is not as actively encouraged today as it should be.

HoolaHoopMan

It is when you take it into perspective to what I was saying. Growing weed is just as time and energy intensive as growing tomatoes and other plants. Sure some people do grow their own, but the vast majority do not because it's cheaper and more convenient to buy it at the store. The same would apply to weed.

He explicity stated that everyone would grow their own thus the government would make nothing off of legalizing it. If that were true we would see everyone growing their own food and brewing their own beer, however that isn't the case.

Definite caffeine addiction.

I have had periods where I have quit caffeine, but I always seem to fall back into the addiction.

Thankfully that's all though. I was at one point somewhat worried I would be at risk for alcohol addiction, but I proved to be self aware enough to keep my control.

Oddly enough, my caffeine addicition at it's worst seemed to encourage an alcohol addiction.

LostProphetFLCL

Well you guys go ahead and keep telling yourselves someting like whats going on with Egypt wont happen here in the U.S.. Good luck with that whileI go gather up a bunch of pigeons and train them to send letters to people and setting up gear to prepare myself like The Postman

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