Mikes Vacation is against the use of drugs. We believe that Marijuana has a detrimental effect on our society as a whole not because it is dangerous in nature, but because it ISN'T immediately dangerous in nature.
Pot smokers don't become violent, or have heart attacks, or commit heinous crimes while high on pot. Pot doesn't produce horribly dangerous psychic conditions as do hard drugs such as PCP, Cocaine, or Methamphetamine.
However, Pot does produce an environment of laziness, and the marijuana culture has developed a very lazy and non-industrious group identity.
Pot is making America a little bit less productive, a little bit lazier, and it is wasting the youth of its users puff by puff. Therein lies the problem, it is a drug which is essentially weakening the industry and motivation of America one young person at a time.
However our young people aren't dying horribly because of it, and there are essentially no ghastly side effects save hunger and the mild to moderate obesity that go with the same.
When Americans tell their kids to be careful of Pot, warning them of its dangers, they are in effect assisting the "gateway drug process". Marijuana can be called a "gateway drug" because it is essentially the first illegal substance most people try.
Here is the big problem, for all of a child/youth's life, they are warned to stay away from drugs, "drugs are baaaad"!! Marijuana is cited along with cocaine, heroin, pcp and what have you.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BNbExvU42q4&feature=related
As Marijuana produces essentially no life or even immediate health threatening effects, the first time user ultimately extrapolates the semi-logical conclusion, that if Marijuana wasn't all that bad, then maybe the other drugs are benign as well.
Obviously the drug problem in America won't be solved by simply re-assigning Marijuana a new description, but continuing to persecute marijuana for possessing sins similar to hard drugs won't do either.
We need clever social engineering to raise our collective productivity and quality of life. Mis-labeling marijuana, and punishing its offenders according to these archaic notions of the drugs harm potential isn't going to work either.
Our country's youth need ACCURATE and HONEST information about marijuana if we as adults are going to have any credibility about the dangers of hard drugs.
Ruining the lives of pot users isn't going to get us anywhere either. Our country is in a state of "witch hunt mania". We are stupidly and earnestly looking for a "monster to burn" all the time.
We need to come to grips with the fact that there is no real freedom without risk. We can't be a "free society" and absolutely control and micro-manage the personal decisions of our cultures diaspora.
Here is a link to some interesting information about what you have just read.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/CollegeAndFamily/Advice/WhatIllegalDrugUseCanCostYou.aspx
If you are a pot smoker, try to take it easy on the stuff, you are only getting lazier, and broker, and fatter.
If you are not a pot smoker, remember that everyone who is a user, is someones loved one and they deserve the respect that you would have given to your own dearest if they choose a alternative path in life.
Mike Miller
Indiana,
2007
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Pot smokers don't become violent, or have heart attacks, or commit heinous crimes while high on pot.
Not true. Happens all the time.
Don't smoke Pot. Life is better without.
Adam, marijuana smoking can lead a few people towards violence or crime, however these same people were proably dangerous and violent sober. My statement was too general to have been unchallenged and you are technicly correct, however your phrase "all the time" isn't an accurate depiction of the relative frequency marijuana use leads to violence and crime. The below link will support my position.
http://www.druglibrary.org/special/goode/mjsmokers9.htm
Mike
Adam, just as a side bar here, the point of this essay isn't to promote Pot, it is to promote social engeneering to decrease Pot use, and the older brother drugs that often follow. In general it is my position that even frequent and excessive pot use is less dangerous than the Police Industrial Block that has evolved to persecute its users. Mikes Vacation is an opponent of Orwellean State Organs, and of Perfect Law Enforcement and its Precursor elements. Mike
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