Like smoking weed
I said pre-marital sex because your logic must remain consistent. You can't use the reasoning that it's "wrong to give into impulses" to disprove marijuana, than to ignore that logic when it comes to anything else.
In high school we learn this is a viable excuse.
Again, you're taking what I said out of context. I'm not using the whole "rest of the world does it" excuse. If you remember correctly, you were specifically talking about how
Americans were too irresponsible as if comparing them to the rest of the world.
You are right! I shouldn't do or enjoy any of those things listed above. Except I'm not perfect. I have to succumb to something, though I try not to. Except weed is something on that list you can obviously identify and purge in real life. There is no temptation to smoke weed, unless of course you made it a habit in your daily life.
No, enjoying yourself is not wrong in any way. The most important thing to do in your life is to make sure that you yourself are happy. As for the temptation to smoke weed, it's no different than the temptation to do anything else.
The pursuit of happiness is intended to mean the ability to move up in the world, free of oppression. No one is restricted to a certain class/job/lifestyle because of where they come from.
No... I'm pretty sure the "
ursuit of happiness" literally means "the pursuit of happiness".
I don't think the founding fathers had getting blazed in mind when they wrote it.
No, they didn't. They had the idea that government is not all knowing, nor should it be all controlling. They believed that the government should not restrict freedoms on a moral driven basis. The government can't create a law simply because what they want to ban is "immoral". Why? Because they know that something immoral for one person may not be immoral for something else.
Right. As long as someone wants to sell it, you have the right to buy it. Capitalism 101.
You're under the impression that capitalism is a bad thing.
Just think how productive our days will become.
Most people who smoke marijuana are VERY responsible people who are quite productive. Most people who smoke marijuana aren't effected at work. If someone goes to work so high that it effects productivity, they are fired.
And so forth. Until everyone is given the same opportunity as we are to blow all of our money away on worthless entertainment, we are all in a situation where we have bad priorities.
It's not wrong to seek happiness for yourself. When you work, you trade your labor for money that can be spent on goods and services that make you happy. Labor for fun. It's a fair trade. If everyone worked only so that they may give to everyone else, then many people would have no way of releasing stress which is quite unhealthy.
Go for it. Fill yourself up on short term satisfaction. It just doesn't call for very many memories when your older.
The short term memory loss that comes from marijuana is the same as that in which comes from alcohol. It is a loss of memory that occurs while you're high and only while you're high. When you are no longer high, your memory will not have deteriorated at all.
I'm not forcing my morals on someone else. I'm expressing my ****ing opinion. I didn't say "You should think this, cause I think I'm right." In fact, that's what you're doing. I said something. You responded. I responded. You responded. And now (apparently) I'm forcing my views upon you. Don't turn this discussion into an argument.
You missed my point. When I say you're forcing your views on other people, I don't mean you're doing so in this forum. I mean you're forcing your morals and views on others by forcing people to live a particular way by use of the law. If you want marijuana to remain illegal because you think it is morally wrong, then you're trying to force others to live life by your morals.
So, since I'm wrong in your opinion, I have a cloud over my eyes. That's how a debate works. Just cause you agree with the popular side doesn't make you right, or even smart.
I'm not supporting marijuana simply because everyone else supports marijuana. Please leave the straw man arguments out of the forum.
My dad has been suffering from excruciating back pain since I was born. He got off his pain medication, and tried marijuana. He said it didn't do a **** thing for him.
This merely proves that marijuana didn't help your dad specifically. It doesn't speak for everyone else that marijuana helps.
Marijuana helps with chemotherapy and a fairly large number of other issues. Marijuana also helps reduce stress. I'll link sources when I'm not short on time.
Because humans make terrible mistakes, all the time.
Then ALLOW humans to make mistakes. We can't be so caught up in making sure nothing bad happens that we smother each other. You have to let people do dumb things.
The generation after that was the hippie generation.
Not really. The hippie generation started during Vietnam.
Actually marijuana prohibition has a lot to do with racism, I'll get on that later though.
