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Post by zombiekiller on Aug 17, 2004 22:23:43 GMT -5
As I read this, Mandy Murphy is talking about a great new gum that is loaded with caffeine. Kids apparently love this product.
Today I rode my bike by tons of kids drinking soda.
On Sunday, I was at a coffee shop playing Go, and most of the people drinking coffee (in a number of forms) were under 21.
Kids are already being coerced into drug habits by marketers, legalize pot can't add to it that much. It is strange that we allow an addictive drug that makes you nervous and hyper to be sold over the counter to anyone regardless of age, but we won't allow adults to buy one that's only side effects are to relax you and make you hungry.
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Post by n2nsites on Aug 17, 2004 22:35:32 GMT -5
How about this one - flavored cigarettes? Couple of kids I know let me beg one - it was good. Really. BUT I GOT IT FROM KIDS.
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Post by DanzaSlap on Aug 17, 2004 22:58:17 GMT -5
As I read this, Mandy Murphy is talking about a great new gum that is loaded with caffeine. Kids apparently love this product. Today I rode my bike by tons of kids drinking soda. On Sunday, I was at a coffee shop playing Go, and most of the people drinking coffee (in a number of forms) were under 21. Kids are already being coerced into drug habits by marketers, legalize pot can't add to it that much. It is strange that we allow an addictive drug that makes you nervous and hyper to be sold over the counter to anyone regardless of age, but we won't allow adults to buy one that's only side effects are to relax you and make you hungry. Everyone who wakes up in the morning and can't start their day without a cup of coffee is a drug addict. Society doesn't necesarily look at them like that, but they are using a psychoactive substance, same as marijuana. In my opinion, drug addiction is one of the most misunderstood aspects of our society. I'm by no means an expert on the subject, but, unlike many who clamour for incarceration, I've actually had experience with drug and drug abusers. Drug abuse is without a doubt a medical problem, and yet we treat it as a criminal issue and wonder why nothing is getting better. My Social Devience professor at Mizzou was the most pro-drug person I've ever met in my life. And not just marijuana (although he was incredibly pro-marijuana), he said in no uncertain terms that we should legalize and regulate all drugs. Now, would that mean being able to buy heroin at the grocery store? No, but like in England, we can take a heroin addict and prescribe heroin to them. Heroin use, aside from the addiction, is not harmful to the body. So long as the user gets their heroin (or any other opiate), they will be fine and function as normally as you or I. My teacher told us about his mother, who became addicted to morphine after surgery in her 70s. She was too weak to survive withdrawal, so the doctor just continued prescribing morphine to her. She was fine, he claimed, so long as she got her morphine, and you would have had no idea she was on any drug. Why we don't do this, something that would cost us almost no money and that would actually help people instead of stigmatizing and degrading them, is beyond me. A lot of Americans are very, very ignorant. I find solace in the fact that by the time I'm older, many of them will be dead, so hopefully, things will have gotten better. Unless those assholes come back as undead scum. Then they have to deal with zombiekiller. |
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Post by RS Davis on Aug 18, 2004 4:53:14 GMT -5
Everyone who wakes up in the morning and can't start their day without a cup of coffee is a drug addict. Society doesn't necesarily look at them like that, but they are using a psychoactive substance, same as marijuana. In my opinion, drug addiction is one of the most misunderstood aspects of our society. I'm by no means an expert on the subject, but, unlike many who clamour for incarceration, I've actually had experience with drug and drug abusers. Drug abuse is without a doubt a medical problem, and yet we treat it as a criminal issue and wonder why nothing is getting better. My Social Devience professor at Mizzou was the most pro-drug person I've ever met in my life. And not just marijuana (although he was incredibly pro-marijuana), he said in no uncertain terms that we should legalize and regulate all drugs. Now, would that mean being able to buy heroin at the grocery store? No, but like in England, we can take a heroin addict and prescribe heroin to them. Heroin use, aside from the addiction, is not harmful to the body. So long as the user gets their heroin (or any other opiate), they will be fine and function as normally as you or I. My teacher told us about his mother, who became addicted to morphine after surgery in her 70s. She was too weak to survive withdrawal, so the doctor just continued prescribing morphine to her. She was fine, he claimed, so long as she got her morphine, and you would have had no idea she was on any drug. Why we don't do this, something that would cost us almost no money and that would actually help people instead of stigmatizing and degrading them, is beyond me. A lot of Americans are very, very ignorant. I find solace in the fact that by the time I'm older, many of them will be dead, so hopefully, things will have gotten better. Unless those assholes come back as undead scum. Then they have to deal with zombiekiller.   PS - ZK is like a benevolent virus, isn't he? Once he comes around, everyone is infected with his mirth, no matter the political persuasion... - Rick |
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Post by outgirl on Aug 18, 2004 16:42:03 GMT -5
Well then, I hope you and your wife can join Rick and I at the hash bar.  Oh shit....I think gay newlyweds will be smoking weed legally before I tread those scarey relationship waters again. Fuck em, fuck em, fuck em all. I'm gonna be the Sean Connery of dykes and just be a player till I'm ninety. |
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Post by outgirl on Aug 18, 2004 16:57:26 GMT -5
Personally, I'm sick of the whole kids arguement with pot. Marijuana is not for kids. Neither is alcohol, porn, sex, cigarettes, rated R movies, etc. and many other legal adult activities. That's where parenting comes in. Really, I always felt that if pot was all my teenager did, I was a happy mom. I have smoked through my daughter's entire 26 yrs but did not allow her to do so (nor drink) until older. Yeah, I knew she was doing it but like most other teens, she hid it (kinda) It was when she was 20 and on the day of her grandfathers funeral that we smoked pot together for the first time. I just don't get why people think kids will be running the streets smoking weed if it is legalized. Give me a break.
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Post by RS Davis on Aug 18, 2004 18:16:29 GMT -5
Oh shit....I think gay newlyweds will be smoking weed legally before I tread those scarey relationship waters again. Fuck em, fuck em, fuck em all. I'm gonna be the Sean Connery of dykes and just be a player till I'm ninety. That's fucking awesome... - Rick |
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