Awesome Pot Prohibition Article by Seattle Attorney who prosecuted Marc Emery

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PokerGuy

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Everyone gets there fix from something.

Yes, but only some of those 'fixes' involve getting high and impairing cognitive function. Eating a burger can be bad for your health, but it doesn't get you high, and doesn't make you a danger on the road etc. Drinking and/or doping do.
 

BurnItDwn

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Yes, but only some of those 'fixes' involve getting high and impairing cognitive function. Eating a burger can be bad for your health, but it doesn't get you high, and doesn't make you a danger on the road etc. Drinking and/or doping do.

So, don't drive after you dope or drink? Seems like a simple solution.
 

surfsatwerk

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Yes, but only some of those 'fixes' involve getting high and impairing cognitive function. Eating a burger can be bad for your health, but it doesn't get you high, and doesn't make you a danger on the road etc. Drinking and/or doping do.

I think it's a shades of gray issue and all of these things can lead to destructive behavior. In the end the guy who beats his wife because he can't deal with his anger is not too drastically different than the pot head who injures a pedestrian driving stoned.

Does it really matter how a person deals with their stress or problems as long as they can do it responsibly?
 

preslove

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Yes, but only some of those 'fixes' involve getting high and impairing cognitive function. Eating a burger can be bad for your health, but it doesn't get you high, and doesn't make you a danger on the road etc. Drinking and/or doping do.

What's wrong with getting high?

All the major pot legalization organizations are not opposed to anti-high-driving legislation.

Why the hell do you care if I get high, make dinner and eat it in front of a movie? Or walk my dog to a field and play catch? I can do all these things and wake up in the morning without a hang over and go to work.

Oh, and eating too many burgers and fatty foods can lead to health problems, which if you're poor can lead to you become a burden on the state and health care providers...
 

Heller

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You = stoner loser.

How do you expect to ever get a real job when you can't pass a drug test? I certainly would not hire you, even if you did pass a test.

I passed the drug test you fucking idiot. Just cause i smoke pot does not me put me in the stoner/loser category. Im a college kid and im a productive member of society. you have no idea how i am in real life,based on what i post or how i act. Your the fucking loser for going around a judging people u meet on the internet. JACKASS
 

MikeMike

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go pot!
fuck pot!
im not a stoner!
fuck you, you smoke pot, you are stoner!
love and peace, man.
fuck you hippies.

is that cliffs of thread?
 

crownjules

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Really? You think the vast majority of people in the world have to get high to "relax". I think there are more folks that might have a drink in a social setting to settle nerves or break the ice, but I don't know anyone who has to get high to relax.

Heh, personal anecdotes. Clearly you've experienced all life has to offer.
 

preslove

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You = stoner loser.

How do you expect to ever get a real job when you can't pass a drug test? I certainly would not hire you, even if you did pass a test.

Plenty of pot heads can refrain from smoking weed for a month to pass a piss test, you ignorant POS.

BTW, I had to pass a piss test to get a temp job after graduation, which I did. Then I got a real, professional job and didn't have to pass a piss test...
 

PokerGuy

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Just cause i smoke pot does not me put me in the stoner/loser category.

Yes, sorry, that's exactly what it does.

you have no idea how i am in real life,based on what i post or how i act.

I'm just going by what you said, that you use dope after dinner. So touchy and defensive. You = loser. Fortunately for you, there's still time to straighten up and make something of yourself.
 

preslove

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Yes, sorry, that's exactly what it does.



I'm just going by what you said, that you use dope after dinner. So touchy and defensive. You = loser. Fortunately for you, there's still time to straighten up and make something of yourself.

Sorry, but there's no hope of you ever not being fucking idiot.
 

PokerGuy

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Plenty of pot heads can refrain from smoking weed for a month to pass a piss test, you ignorant POS.

Sad, that you have to "refrain" from something for a month to pass. For someone who's not a dopehead it would be very easy since there's no need to use it at all.
 

destrekor

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Sad, that you have to "refrain" from something for a month to pass. For someone who's not a dopehead it would be very easy since there's no need to use it at all.

Not everyone that drinks alcohol is an alcoholic. And for people who don't drink all that often, a few servings can bring about mild effects from the alcohol. You might refer to everyone to drinks alcohol as an alcoholic, but you're simply a fucking idiot preaching your superiority-complex shit from the top of your horse.

In the exact same way, not every individual who smokes marijuana is a pothead. People can use intoxicants in a responsible manner, regardless of what all your bullshit and ignorant views say otherwise. Because guess what, over half of the world's civilization uses some form of intoxicant, and can still lend their services as a responsible member of the working society.

I don't exactly get where you get off, because ignorance is an ugly disease that often leads to spouting off wrong views with the mightiest of conviction.
 

preslove

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So funny to see all the dopeheads get all mad and indignant when someone calls them what they are. hahaha.

Heh, I've smoked weed with Harvard medical professors, PhDs, future PhDs, lawyers, teachers and other successful people.

Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and other brilliant scientists regularly use(d) marijuana.

You = a fucking ignorant little troll who doesn't no anything about this subject. What have you done with your life that makes you able to judge "dopers?"
 

MikeMike

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Agreed, definitely an idiot.


A smart person would smoke BEFORE dinner to make dinner taste 20x better.

yes, but if you wait to smoke until AFTER dinner, you don't get the munchies near as bad...

though, you could smoke, eat, smoke, sleep...
 

PokerGuy

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blah blah blah Because guess what, over half of the world's civilization uses some form of intoxicant, and can still lend their services as a responsible member of the working society.

And yet, in the vast majority of the world it's still illegal, because just about every society on the planet realizes that smoking dope is directly correlated with being an unproductive loser.
 

preslove

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And yet, in the vast majority of the world it's still illegal, because just about every society on the planet realizes that smoking dope is directly correlated with being an unproductive loser.

LOL, you have no idea why drugs were outlawed you fucking idiot loser.

Since you didn't answer my question, I'm just going to assume you're some little shit fuckup who just projects his problems on some group he doesn't understand.
 

TechBoyJK

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And yet, in the vast majority of the world it's still illegal, because just about every society on the planet realizes that smoking dope is directly correlated with being an unproductive loser.

Why don't you tell us what you've done with your life.

I smoke pot pretty often, and I bet I'm much more accomplished than you are. Mostly because I'm more accomplished than most people.

If I'm a loser, then nobody's a winner.
 

Heller

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And yet, in the vast majority of the world it's still illegal, because just about every society on the planet realizes that smoking dope is directly correlated with being an unproductive loser.

why are you still talking? you proven that you know nothing of the subject and yet your still talking? just shut the fuck up already:awe:

Go smoke a joint and then come back and post cause then you'll have a proper view of booth sides of the story.
 

PokerGuy

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then come back and post cause then you'll have a proper view of booth sides of the story.

Ha, so by your logic I must try stupidity before judging something to be stupid? Clearly all that dope smoking has done wonders for your brain already.