Pot is not a drug? A mother of 3 responds to me that Pot is not a drug; and that compared to alcohol, smoking pot is harmless compared to all the alcohol related issues. I find it funny to hear people who are acting in an parental capacity to spout off about why they think pot should be no problem. They of course feel they are better and more involved parents because after a few hits they are just overly interested in their kids Lego’s and other assorted games and parts and pieces.
I’m not sure being overly side tracked because of your altered mental space is making you a better parent. Lets put this into perspective. If on final approach to LA X on a fully loaded 747 how would you feel about the pilots smoking out in the cockpit. Even if you believe pot is not a drug as harmful as alcohol how much confidence would you have in your chances of landing without incident with your smoking out pilots.
How about if you are on trial for your life and your attorney is smoking out before his final summation to the jury. How about if your brain surgeon is smoking out during your procedure or your favorite football team is stoned at the supper bowl and you have taken out bets on them to win. How much confidence do you have in them to execute their job stoned and how upset would you be if your team lost the game cause they were stoned?
Smoking Pot Doubles Risk of a Fatal Accident. Is pot a drug, is it harmful compared to alcohol? I think the real question is; would you trust your life to someone smoking out in clouds of pot. Ok some people would say they have seen people be far more violent and harmful with alcohol than with Pot. True enough, but if you are going to try to suggest that pot is okbecause PCP, or LSD, or alcohol is worse – that doesn’t change the fact that all these drugs cause a diminished capacity and even though your smoking out pilot may be mellow and docile as opposed to confrontational and combative with alcohol the pilot will still be experiencing diminished capacity. In the end if your plane crashes or your football team loses because they smoked out does it matter that they were mellow when they blew up the jet at the end of the runway or choked at the supper bowl.
Some may say granted there may be diminished capacity but pot has some medical medicinal advantages and the worst that happens to people when they get stoned is that they fall asleep; pot smokers are such sweet people when they are stoned. And on top of everything else it isn’t fair that alcohol is legal where as pot is illegal.
So based upon the idea that pot smokers are sweet gentle people and the worst they do is fall asleep when they are stoned – it just isn’t fair that alcohol is legal when more people are using and abusing alcohol and the results are horrible domestic abuse etc. etc. – we should make pot legal. But are pot smokers nice people by the fact they smoke pot or because they were nice people to start with.
When a guy with five felonies of cultivating marijuana and no doubt and avid pot smoker – starts shooting at police in Hemet, California because he is upset about being criminally prosecuted I have to say maybe pot smokers are not so sweet. Granted it isn’t a proven fact that he was a pot smoker but we know for sure he was a grower so you do the math. But what really is revealing are the comments many pro pot people post about why we need to legalize marijuana!!! The reasoning seems to be that if you don’t want cops to be shot at then legalize marijuana. It kind of sounds like,”I want what I want when I want it and I don’t care who it hurts” it sounds like the thinking of an addict.
I think the argument could be made for the idea that since alcohol is legal and as such a legitimate business that can be promoted with advertising and marketing dollars more people will be encouraged to part take of the drug because of its legitimate business status. If pot were legalized would not the same forces that have promoted alcohol to the point that it is a metaphor for a good time living the good life. When it was legal to advertise cigarettes more than they are today life style and good times were the focal point.
We as a society already have enough problems with legal alcohol and cigarettes. If we added pot to the assortment of legal drugs wouldn’t that just ad to the problem of more drug and alcohol abuse. Many people use multiple intoxicants including alcohol pot etc. In many a party setting the beer flows the mixed drinks make the rounds and then there is the proverbial question,”do you partake”? Pot smokers by beer and hard alcohol as well as partake. Maybe not everybody but I have never noticed people passing up a chance at free beer because they were dedicated pot smokers.
Ok I can hear it now,” how can you make such assertions without having been a pot smoker”. Simple I went to college I lived in a dorm I lived in a fraternity I’ve seen my share of out of control parties and heard the rhetoric of relationships gone bad cause boyfriend or girlfriend can do nothing but get stoned all day. You don’t have to smoke pot to see someone wast their life chasing around looking for their next bag of weed. Some people consider pot smoking a lifestyle choice, some like to think of it as a form of self medication. Some people seem to think that because they smoke out and or are current or former smokers that they are the only people qualified to have an opinion on weed and unless your are a fellow partaker you have no right to object. It kind of sounds like the I have a right to smoke my cigarets anywhere crowd. That is another argument and I’m not getting into that one.
Some people seem to think it would be funny if pot was legalized because few if any people would show up for work. If nobody is at the factory making all those munchies and delivering them to local stores how will all those stoned people get their food. life might be good for the few people who did show up for work – and were willing and able to be drug free. In fact they might see pay raises and promotions because they were the few motivated people to go to work. Maybe there is an idea in there.