It's May 16, 2024, 10:34:32 AM
I started smoking weed when I was 13 years old and did it on a fairly regular basis until I was 18. I'm 21 now and haven't touched it since I was 18. *THIS IS MY PRESONAL OPINION*I don't mind the effects of marijuana, but I feel that I'm a better person when I'm not smoking. I find it much easier to remember appointments, be productive, and live my life to its full potential. It's not to say that I wasn't a productive member of society when I was smoking, but rather I wasn't living up to my full potential. As I got my priorities straight, and made a decision what I wanted to do with my life, I found that I had no need for marijuana. I enjoyed smoking marijuana, but the effects that it had on me were just something I didn't want to have in my life anymore. Some of my best friends smoke weed daily. I don't mind people that smoke weed. If you can continue to smoke weed and contribute positively to society. Good for you. It’s the people who smoke weed and can’t contribute to society that bother me.As far as legalization goes, I’m impartial. People who want to smoke will. A law will not stop them. If it does get legalized, I would be willing to bet that it would be HIGHLY regulated and heavily taxed. If marijuana does get legalized I would hope to see smoking weed viewed as a self imposed disability. If you smoke that joint, you won't be able to fly that airplane for a living. If you smoke weed, you won't be able to perform that brain surgery. Etc…
Pot users often cite the accomplishments of people they know as using pot and being successful. Most of these success stories are in reference to career success. But career success is only one form of success. The ideal success and the more general definition I can provide is that success is a precise combination of knowledge and ability. The most successful person has the knowledge and ability to live life however he pleases and to be successful in all his endeavours. This is different than being successful in your job. The successful life is one where you choose what you do without any contigent factors influencing your decision and you do what you do well. That is my idea of a successful person.
I just ask this, keep an open mind about things.
5) I fail to see how the desire to legalize weed is anything but selfish. Neither you or I are in the position to judge what is best for another person. I have not told you to change your life, but you are fighting for legislation that if enacted produced consequences in the LIFE of other people. Consequences that you are not sure of. You smoke weed, obviously then you already can get weed. Why do you need it legalize? It should not be an issue to you. By fighting for legalized weed you are taking the future of citizens of this country into your hands when you DO NOT know the net outcome. If weed is to be legalized there is to be consequences, perhaps good and perhaps bad. If those consequences are bad, are you and the rest of those fighting for its legislation willingly to bear the responsibility for them? That question actually is not a sensible one, because there is no way for you or any group of people to repay such a debt to another person.
AC I agree with most of your post except the last line.where you said "would you prefer a society of drunks of stoners?"I prefer neither.