the UK, a place where u can vlog your rape trial, get off for religious reasons, then go to jail for filming it.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Jun 22 2018 08:37am

I entirely agree that people should be free to take stuff that’s bad for them. The problem I see is that, as a society, an immense share of our income taxes goes towards helping people who knew damn well they were hurting their health.

Smoke and drink all you want, I don’t mind; I just don’t like paying for your lung cancer and cirrhosis treatment.

i'm sure scaly agrees that all the taxes he pays being a professional student shouldn't go to people who smoke weed, even though he likely doesn't have the same stance on being overweight.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Jun 22 2018 08:51am

I don't know how many times I have to state this - I don't believe in freedom or democracy. I believe in limited freedom and democracy as an advisory practice to government.

I don't know why people are still surprised to find out I have fascist leanings.



Ehhh... In practice not so much. It's odd. I'm ok with people having an occasional smoke. I just don't think the govt should encourage it.

the government is binary. things are either legal or illegal. even when they release PSAs on littering they're discouraging already illegal behavior. i get that making something legal that was illegal could be construed that way, but then that means the Saudi govt is encouraging women to drive. something we both know is a lie.

Saudi is a theocracy and therefore a poor comparison.
Here state law is less impeded by religion when it comes to encouraging cultural shifts. In America too I'd imagine although to a lesser degree in places like Utah.

i see them as a better comparison than one might think, given the radically different governments.

most of the antipot arguments in the US are being made by the conservative religious types, Jeff Sessions at the forefront. The guy who goes biblical with justifications on the regular.

i know very little about UK pot norms tho.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Jun 22 2018 11:29am

I'm definitely not religious lol.

As for Jeff Sessions - People are extremely partisan. If one side puts forth an argument the other has to be against it. It's become part of the 'liberal' platform to legalise weed. If you're against it you're scorned by the left.

My argument comes from seeing the harm that can be done by cannabis. It ruins lives. Psychotic breaks are no joke and schizophrenia is often a death sentence. An awful, drawn out death through potentially years of mental torture.

I think we should make moves towards making smoking and drinking excessively less socially acceptable too. I believe we're on that road with smoking. There is definitely still a really shitty drink culture here in the UK and in the US from what I can tell.

This post was edited by Scaly on Jun 22 2018 11:47am

Uhhh okay? On a developing brain, that is. But regardless your point is the same as me linking lung cancer and cigarettes together.
Also, I don't believe those conditions have ever killed anybody, other than someone taking themselves. How often do you read on the news "STONER KILLS HIMSELF BECAUSE HE HAD AN ANXIETY ATTACK AND WAS TOO HIGH"
Please. The positives outweigh the negatives by a long shot, especially in a developed brain.

Also what you're describing is probably quite the minority, you probably have a better chance of dying in a car crash than developing any sort of serious mental illness from cannabis.

This post was edited by Bassist on Jun 22 2018 12:22pm

If marijuana is legal than the government has to get out of health care (subsidies etc). Moral hazard and such.