Geezez! Why do you insist on being thick headed? The point is that you weighed the benefits and drawbacks and determined that it would not make you "feel good" on the whole, not just for the duration of your high, but in the long run. You determined it would not feel good. There is no reason that maxim has to be a short sighted one and when it is, it is bad. But in the longer view, there is nothing wrong at all with it.
So, you can't even prove correlation. You seem to be arguing that we should lump all smokers together regardless of what they are smoking. Sorry, that's not valid. The chemicals in cigarettes are different than those in marijuana and far more toxic.
Your previous post... Well i can guarantee they didn't tell him using drugs was okay or acceptable.
You have repeated this idea numerous times throughout the thread.
Yeah, from alcohol, cigarettes, cocaine, pain meds, etc. I said, marijuana vs bad diet. There is little chance that anyone could attribute a death to which cut of meat you ate. That would be like me saying, prove that there is danger from smoking just buds and no leaves.
You seemed to imply that beef prohibition would be harder and more likely to fail. I even asked you the question, though I failed to use a question mark. No one created an argument for you. If that is not what you meant, okay.
I knew you would be able to find some bullshit rationalization to maintain your hypocrisy.
First off, are you kidding? Your arguments are so unbelievably absurd. We have entire movie and video game genres where bullets fly at absurd rates. Put that against maybe a dozen Cheech and Chong movies and Half Baked.
I have not argued that drug abuse is good. Where is this widespread glorification of drug abuse. Hell, even in Half Baked, Dave gave up mary jane to get Mary Jane.
The problem is that you see all drug use as abuse. Drug use is glorified and rightfully so.
Nonsense. I don't need to go to a doctor everytime I take an aspirin, Advil or some Pepto Bismol. Frankly, I don't see why I need a prescription, though I would not object to the requirement that I seek counsel of a qualified doctor. But it does not really matter, because it is easy to find a doctor that will give you whatever you want for a buck. We have turned many of them into drug dealers by requiring their consent.
Marijuana is on the level of an aspirin in terms of its dangers.
We can't solve it. Utopia is not an option and you ignorantly want to place all blame based on partisan bs. There will always be people who misuse drugs just like there are always going to be people that misuse their guns. We can minimize it, but not with the idiotic tee-totaler attitude that all drug use is abuse and human desire for pleasure or even escape is inherently evil. There is nothing wrong with pleasure or escape in and of themselves, just like there is nothing wrong with having a good steak every once in awhile. Just don't overdo it.
