Now, I've been lurking here for quite some time. As car audio is one of my many interests.
This post has drawn me out.
You are right. This kinda post has no place in a car audio forum. I know many a better place where informed people can talk about the subject of marijuana and it's uses.
I'm forced by my convictions to step up to the plate for the sake of logic and truth.
As opposed to what many of you have been brain washed to think. Marijuana dose not kill brain cells. Nor does it do any "real" damage. Now, it does do some. Inhaling any kind of smoke isn't the most health enlightened thing to do. The air in the cities we live in is worse in some places. Marijuana can be eaten in the form of cookies, cakes what have you. Anything that can be made with butter. (As THC bonds with the fat and then, when eaten passes into the blood stream via digestion.)
Marijuana, does little to impair motor function. Though I do not recommend driving under it's influence. I also do not recommend driving while tired, on medications or cough suppressants. All of the above may make you're reaction time slow greatly.
Contrary to what you may think, marijuana has never killed anyone. You cannot "OD" on marijuana. The only time marijuana has been linked to a direct fatality is when a 3 ton bail fell on a DEA agent.
Marijuana in it self is harmless. The thought of it leading to harder drugs is for the most part a myth. Look at the Dutch, they decimalized the substance years ago. Now, do not listen to out current drug czar when he says it's an "unmitigated disaster" because he plays with funny numbers. Not to mention he works for a government that has lied to it's people about the subject of marijuana for a long period of time.
The tale and I do stress the word tale told by the one who said their brother had a paranoid break down is foolish. The effects of marijuana only last for a set period of time. The longest you stay "high" is up to 18 hours. That's if you have very potent marijuana and are extremely lucky. Thinking your family is out to get you is an exaggeration.
You may be asking yourself why would they lie about it? Simple. Money, as it makes the world go round and it's the number one thing all politicians care about. If marijuana was legal substance, many industries would be in great danger due to a better product and resource being open for usage. I'll list a few. Well, I won't. These are from a web site of course, but their point remains the same.
Chemical companies- cotton requires large amounts of chemical fertiliser and pesticides, unlike cannabis which produces stronger and more durable fibres.
*Plastics industry- many plastic products could be made from natural cannabis without polution.
*Timber industry- cannabis 'hurds' (the woody bits of stalk) can be used to make funiture as well as paper of superior quality than that made from wood.
*Tobacco and alcohol industries- if more people turned to the safer and non-addictive recreational pastime than their products.
*Pharmaceutical companies who may profit less if ill people are able to grow their own medicine in preference to their many dangerous and addictive synthetic drugs which the same people claim are less effective than cannabis.
*The employees of the criminal justice industry and supportive industries including police, lawyers, barristers, court officials, prison staff, probation services, drug councellrs, forensic scientists, costums officers and security firms, who may suffer if 100,000 less prosecutions are brought each year.
*AND...MOST IMPORTANTLY....
*The fuel companies including fossil, nuclear and solar.
The Report of the FCDA Europe, endorsed by Judges, Doctors and academics, reveals, for the first time, the CANNABIS BIOMASS ENERGY EQUATION,
which shows beyond doubt that cannabis-derived fuel, capable of providing almost all of our domestic and industrial energy requirments as well as running all of our cars without pollution, is easily a CHEAPER and safer form of viable energy. It is the huge oil and nuclear industries which have the main profit motivations for continued prohibition at any cost. The FCDA Report reveals the true motives behind both past and present prohibition, and reveals the law itself is illegal.
You see? It's not the benefit of mankind they are working for. It's the lining in their pockets they protect. The president we have now is the child of an oil fortune, where would the bush family be if marijuana related fuels were open to be used?
So they heard society like cattle into what they want them to think. They run ad after ad for this "War on drugs" which even our own DEA members have called a waste of time and resources.
Canada is on the verge of decimalizing Marijuana as we speak. The US has threatened them with trade sanctions on their country if they do. Why? Because if people do here see them do it. We'll start to think. If there is one thing out government does not want us doing, it's thinking. If we all stopped and thought a moment, a split second. We may break down the year after year, ad after ad campaigns of lies and propaganda they've forced on us.
Holland is a better place because they saw the truth of the matter. They have less murders, less petty crime, and less hard drug use than the US. All after they stopped trying to force moral choices on people with their own minds.
Your typical stoner stereotype is offensive. I know doctors, lawyers, dentists, pastors, soccer moms, judges etc. etc. That all smoke marijuana, I myself practice Bujinkan Ninjutsu which takes a clear mind and stable spirit to do. How do I attain a clear mind? It's easy. I don't smoke pot before I go to the Dojo. I don't smoke pot before I go to work. I don't smoke pot when I need to have a clear head. I hold a steady job, I do it well. I'm there everyday and I'm far from what you would call lazy.
Marijuana slows the mind a little bit. It also opens it up to things the normal mind cannot think of. It's relaxing. It's what I prefer to do after work. Some of you may choose a few beers. A ciggerette. That's fine. The main difference is smoking killed in the hundreds of thousands of people a year. Drinking three fourths that. Yet mine kills no one. Yet I'm the one who has to worry about going to jail. Why? Who do I hurt? No one. Not a single one of you.
All I ask is this. Think for yourself. Learn from someplace the american government cannot lie and manipulate. Do not fallow because you are told to fallow. Strike out, and learn for yourself before you call "stoners" bad people. Most of us are just like you. We have families, children, businesses and lives just like yours. The only real difference is we have a love for something that's unaccepted by many.
I leave you with these thoughts.
If marijuana was legal, thousands of people would not be in jail. Half of them do not belong there anyway. They only come out worse off than when they went in. Meaning, your tax dollar would not be needed to house and feed inmates and build more prisons.
If marijuana was legal it would be a taxable substance just like alcohol and tobacco. Meaning an influx of money into our economy.
If marijuana was legal farmers who have no crops, who struggle and fight for their living would have a new crop to grow and well. Marijuana plants are very adaptive, they can grow anywhere.
Most of all. Would you ever want to see your mother, father, sister, brother, wife, friend, husband, grand parent suffer because of pain and disease? Would you watch them waste away into nothing because they have no appetite? Yes there are many pain medications. Some have side effects that are almost as bad as the thing that causes them to be used. Yet marijuana has no real side effect, it eases pain and suffering. It bring an appetite to those who have none.Yet they cannot have it because of the reasons stated above.
Learn for yourselves, do not be brain washed. Do not be lied to. Use the mind you've been given and the freedom of choice our government fights so hard not to let us have.
In the end, it's up to us to change the way things are.
Signed,
The guy next door.