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| Re: Marijuana [message #407951] |
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| appshot wrote on Wed, 21 October 2009 22:41 |
I think it is illegal due to the pharmaceutical companies and other such companies involved in the drug/acohol business.
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Don't take drugs kids! Pay for them like everyone else.
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| Re: Marijuana [message #408134] |
Fri, 23 October 2009 16:11 |
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i basically see drugs as being like religion. if an adult wants to do it, they shouldn't be told they can't... but if it makes you do bad things, you aren't strong enough to handle it. and most importantly, kids ought to be protected from it.
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| Re: Marijuana [message #408465] |
Mon, 26 October 2009 18:50 |
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Marijuana was originally outlawed in the United States due to pressure from Cotton and other industries that were rivaled by hemp production. They employed the use of racist propaganda to convince people it was bad.
Today, it's illegal to keep the "war on drugs" running smoothly, and to keep private prisons full of non-violent offenders, so companies can get more of those delicious subsidy dollars. Who are some of the biggest supporters of the "war on drugs"? Prison companies.
This documentary provides a pretty good look at the situation.
TL;DR: it's all about money.
[Updated on: Mon, 26 October 2009 18:53]
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| Re: Marijuana [message #459934] |
Fri, 25 November 2011 17:39 |
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| Caveman wrote on Fri, 25 November 2011 12:20 |
get pissed
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Kinda off topic, but this expression always made me lol since its usage is different here in the US (it generally means "get angry" or the like).
It makes me picture a guy walking into a bar, sitting down, and just getting really angry for no real reason.
Toggle Spoiler| Scrin wrote on Sat, 24 January 2009 13:22 |
| cAmpa wrote on Sat, 24 January 2009 12:45 |
Scrin, stop pming people to get the building bars.
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FUCK YOU AND THIS SHIT GAME WITH YOUR SCRIPTS!!! I HAVE ASKING YOU AND ANOTHER NOOBS HERE ABOUT HELP WITH THAT BUILDING ICONS FEATURES FOR YEARS, BUT YOU KEEP IGNORING ME AND KEEP WRITE SHIT, SO BURN YOU AND YOUR ASSLICKERS FRIENDS, THIS TIME I'M NOT COME BACK!!!!!!!!!   
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| Re: Marijuana [message #459942] |
Sat, 26 November 2011 00:33 |
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First, I want to point out that I don't smoke or drink. If you take that to mean anything about me, you can ignore the rest of my post. (If you weren't going to already)
Honestly, I don't think anything that can't be a direct cause of infringing on the rights of someone else has grounds to be banned regardless of how bad or unhealthy whatever it may be.
Or, to put it another way... if you smoked some marijuana, are you violating the rights of someone else? No? Then why is it banned?
I would like to point out, however, that I'm talking in principle. Obviously there are dangers of having everyone legally stoned out of there minds 24/7... but then that's where usage laws would have to come into play.
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| Re: Marijuana [message #459944] |
Sat, 26 November 2011 00:53 |
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No. Because, unlike just merely using a substance on your own, when you are put in control of a machine with diminished mental capacity, you become a threat to the safety of others. It isn't about your rights anymore it's about the rights of everyone else around you.
The way that you need to look at the law is not how it effects you, but how you effect those around you in respect to the law.
For example, the Constitution isn't giving you, specifically the right to free speech. It is rather telling you to tolerate the free speech of others. If you tolerate my rights and I tolerate your rights, then everyone gets tolerated and everyone wins.
However people don't look at it that way. Instead, they look at the law and see how it benefits them and how they can exploit what they are given to either A] gain more or B] put down others. It is a misconception because so many people say "This is MY right, now you have to respect that" while they fail to realize that the person they are talking to has the same rights as them.
This is why so many people think they are "right" when they protest to ban things that they deem are unacceptable or inappropriate. (Violent video games would be a good example here)
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| Re: Marijuana [message #459946] |
Sat, 26 November 2011 01:05 |
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For example, the Constitution isn't giving you, specifically the right to free speech.
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I don't care if you choose to smoke/drink or not. Once you start making retarded posts, this is when I start caring.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Try reading that, even once, before you use your asshole to type again.
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| Re: Marijuana [message #459947] |
Sat, 26 November 2011 01:34 |
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Don't be daft... Read my entire point before assuming anything and responding to what you think I said...
You're misunderstanding my point. I didn't mean it like that. I meant that you have to treat it like it isn't granting you, specifically, one out of 300million citizens, reader of the text the right but rather commanding you to grant the right unto others. And at the same time, they have to grant the right unto you.
You ARE granted everything in the bill of rights and the rest of the Constitution. But that isn't my point. In fact, it is not even relevant to what I'm saying. It's granted already.
The Constitution is just a piece of paper with writing on it. If it was destroyed, the country wouldn't be destroyed as well. That is why just reading text isn't going to dictate how people will behave. Which brings me back to what I was saying originally.
You have to first understand the rights of other citizens before you understand the rights granted unto you. In theory, that's the ideal way that the Constitution should be read in order for the country to work the way it was intended. However, ideals alone aren't enough to sway the workings of a country and its people and that was my point.
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| Re: Marijuana [message #459949] |
Sat, 26 November 2011 02:05 |
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There shall be no words. Only screams.
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| Re: Marijuana [message #460115] |
Mon, 28 November 2011 21:18 |
 nikki6ixx 
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| argathol3 wrote on Mon, 28 November 2011 14:15 |
Pot inhibits your ability to operate a car? Since when?
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I'm assuming this is facetiousness.
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| lolcat wrote on Sun, 04 July 2010 01:38 |
| GEORGE ZIMMER wrote on Sun, 04 July 2010 01:37 |
When you came rolling in here, did you see a sign outside the front of the forums that said "Retarded Faggot Storage"?
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no but i saw a sign that said GEORGE ZIMMER should fuck off and grow up
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DID YOU SEE A SIGN THAT SAID "RETARDED FAGGOT STORAGE"?
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lol no wonder no one likes you, little kids thies days 
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YOU KNOW WHY YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT SIGN? CUZ IT AINT THERE, CUZ STORING RETARDED FAGGOTS AINT OUR FUCKIN' BUSINESS, THAT'S WHY.
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