Unfortunately for us we all think kids are dumb and stupid so we lie ourselves to death assuming they will buy it.
In reality the dumber we treat them the less they buy it.
It's a vice plain and simple . Like cigarettes, alcohol or weed , it's a vice. Cigarettes will kill you , we all know, ithe destroys your lungs. Alcohol will kill you we all know , it's kills your liver. Weed tho, we don't know! !!!!
This is not entirely true, depending on what is considered 'alcohol'. For instance, sugar in large amounts can contribute to obesity, but consuming sugar occasionally or in moderation with a balance of healthy lifestyle will not likely lead to obesity.
Likewise, wine and other alcohols will not cause harm to the kidney if used in moderation and wine is actually a fermented form of fruits and can be helpful to the health, if used as advised in moderation.
Everything CAN harm us if used inappropriately, but they are much less likely to harm us if used in moderation as intended.
I think a VICE is something used to avoid, and almost anything from food to drink can be used as a VICE. Other times, however, people use things for momentary entertainment or enjoyment, and not to avoid. In which case, it becomes an issue of whether use has become Abuse.
Very well put! I've had chronic pain issues for 40 years, I've been on everything there is for pain including morphine tablets and fentanyl patches.
Now I'm off all of it and I'm not worried about the small amount of damage that the smoke (of any kind) may do to my lungs. I've had several heart to heart talks with my pain doctor about quality of life and that's what it comes down to. If you don't have the pain you don't know. Plus as I said earlier humans want to get high and always have.
It's crazy that the government should even be involved. Through out my lifetime I've watched as they stomped and pissed on our constitution and taken away our rights. Drug testing for workers for example is rediculous, they punish and fire people who smoke some weed; it stays in your body for a long time but idiots (there's lots of you out there) who do meth the worst drug ever and get away with it because it's out of your system in a couple of days.
But the foulest and most rights crushing thing of all is drug testing! Read the constitution and tell me how this could be allowed,it's insane. I've always been self employed and it hasn't effected me but I've seen friends suffer because of it. This is cliche but correct; would you rather have that guy driving that truck full of welding gases be high on weed or vibrating along nervous and paranoid having done meth and hasn't slept for 3 days coming at you on the hiway?
I understand your point. We have many conflicting 'standards' in this country. Its crazy that a woman can have an abortion because its 'her body'. but people cannot consume certain things on the same grounds that its 'their body'.
Sometimes we can 'interfere' or 'intervene' for what we think is the greater good. I'm not saying that's always bad of always good, just the truth of it.
I think a lot of where people get involved and governments, sadly, is money related. That is to say, the US is VERY LITIGOUS and CAPITALISTIC, which makes profit gain or loss the bottom line.
For instance, people who have been accused of crimes all over media or done or said something others disapprove of can cause their employers to fear a loss of revenue being associated with them, and so now employers can have a 'morals clause' that can terminate your employment over what image society has of you, rather than the job you are actually doing.
Likewise, employers can be held accountable for things their employees do. So, even if an employee has not YET done something wrong, but is using a substance known to affect judgment, there is a greater risk they may do something that causes the employer a lawsuit. So, employers now take precautions against those risks by testing for judgment enhancing drugs.
It really is about the money. Again, not a judgment of right and wrong, just a statement of what drives society in modern times.
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msharmony
on Tue 03/12/19 03:11 PM