Tired of Demonization

get a job….ya bong smokin hippie….seriously though why not just do away with all the fuckin’ laws….limits need to start somewhere….pot IS a drug and it IS addictive and therefore should remain illegal.

Hey, no luck with pot luck – I suppose your idea of a good time is getting so pissed on booze you shit yourself.

Amen, banjon – the people who squawk the most about pot are very uneducated. I have researched this topic at great length and it should be, at the very least, decriminalized. I, too, am a occasional tooter and see nothing wrong with it. I’d rather be stoned than drunk anytime. If they banned cigarettes and alcohol, it’d be fine by me.

People have to understand that the pot legalization issue is not based in logic at all so quoting the reasons it should be available will not work. It’s a political and an emotional issue and that’s what keeps it where it is.

If the government legalized pot, I believe the price would rise tremendously and the quality would decline tremendously. The government would crack down harshly on all black market operations that would offer better pot, and if your a pothead like me, its quite easy to buy some as it is. I don’t see the need to make it available to those (besides medically) who wouldn’t be inclined to try it otherwise. People will still drink, smoke and all the rest, and saying pot is better than any of them is wrong. Substituting one addiction for the other is senseless.

amen to no drugs

Oh, well “No drugs”,” read about it””Weed is addictive”Of course we all believe everything we read,right?’cause I read that the Holocaust never happened and that George Bush is the Antichrist(well that’s debatable I guess)and that when we diewe’ll either go to a place where it’s Christmas every day or a place where the heat is ungodly.(I hope it’s a dry heat at least)

Weed has been around for 2000 years. The only reason it’s illegal is back in the 1930s, Dupont came up with revolutionary nylon, which competed with hemp, therefore the demonization.As for those who don’t, that’s your biz but don’t preach to me about the fucking evils of weed. There’s far more evil in a quart of whiskey than there is in a spliff.

Gee man…..missionary style with the lights off once a week all you like too?How about some honey on that dry toast eh?

Why do creepy aging potheads spend so much time and emotion trying to justify their weakness to people who know the truth- THAT SMOKING POT CONSTANTLY AND TALKING ABOUT POT CONSTANTLY IS UNBELIEVABLY, INCREDIBLY LAME, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE OLDER THAN 21?

Hey, no drugs – if you carry a bible, that explains your stand perfectly.

“older than 21”, “creepy aging potheads”, “justify their weakness”…..too funny.what are you 12 little girl?

Seriously don’t care one way or the other- I think pot definitely can’t be as bad sitting in a casino, drinking your face off and smokin’ that pack of cigs. THAT is doing some serious Killing and I really think the 2 most additive things in the world are legal- food and nicatine- and I am certainly not advocating making food illegal- Pot is natual and I think to say everyone who smokes it has something wrong with them and should be looked down upon is quite simply WRONG! i don’t smoke it- nor do i hang out with people who do but i could give a rat’s ass if you do as long as you are a half decent person! but I don’t think it will ever be legalized.

Hi.I hate smoking weed. It makes me paranoid and really weird. I can count on one hand the number of friends I have that smoke weed. I don’t like the smell, I don’t like the effect – I just plain don’t like it. I believe in God. I go to church when I can. I haven’t read the bible, and I drink when I want to.That all being said, I completely support legalization of marijuana. Weed is not harmful. Yes, it may be addictive, and I know the effects on the lungs and respiratory tract – so besides the dangers that the smoker is inflicting upon himself, the drug is not harmful. I find pot smokers to be caring, fun loving people. Yes, there are those nagging pot-smoking hippies on the lawns of the Spring Garden Library, but that’s a part of Halifax life. Plus, come on, they’re friendly.A drug is something that changes your frame of mind. Keeping that in mind, it would be logical to push Sir Rodney to make alcohol illegal. And while we’re at it, let’s take away gambling, video games, TV, Sunday shopping and movies. We’ll all be happpier in our sterile, protected environment. Right?Wrong.If you don’t like pot, fine. Join the club. But do not generalize the pot smokers as tree-hugging protesting hippies. Do not insult them and call them names. Where will that get you? How about getting to know them. Learning more about it. Understanding that, hey, just because it makes you a paranoid maniac, it doesn’t happen to everyone. Just let it go! Life will be so much easier without the stress of telling people what to do, how to live, and what not to smoke. Start accepting people for who they are. They did no personal harm to you, so smile and say hi. The world is a lot nicer when people are nicer to eachother.

according to ‘no luck with pot luck’s’ logic coffee, pop, alcohol, fast foods and other common foods with additives, and cigarettes should all be illegal because they contain addictive drigs…fat chance, fact; all of these r more dangerous to your health than the ‘devil’s weed’ cannibas has scientifically proven medicinal qualitiesin response to ‘no drugs’,’weed is addictive and i read about, i was chronic for more than 10 years, now i live somewhere where its a big deal to get busted so i haven’t toked in over 11 months, no problem, i miss it 4 sure but im not going crazy, i do not FEEL that pot is addictive, this is based on experience, you THINK is is because someone wrote it, i hope somebody slips u some sometime, perhaps u might actually get high & evolve beyond the ignorant reality u exist in nowdo you even know the history of cannibas?, if not, do urself a favour & go visit Micaleth @ youtube.com 4 some education on the matter, u can watch ‘grass’, ‘hemp for victory’, the magic weed’, ‘stoned in suburbia’ where u can meet many decent folks including the 70ish year old woman who uses it in her food to ease her painssomehow i doubt you’ll ever change your mind and realize the truth about things because u seem even more naive than the gullible idiots who fell for ‘reefer madness’, ‘the terrible truth’ and other such films many decades agod, you’re wrong, pot is better and not addictiveto the ignorant, u don’t know what u r missing, i feel pity 4 u, if u ever have any seriuos health issues i hope u will consider this sacred medicine plant, aka ‘wisdom weed’, look at INDIAdr weil’s conclusions r that cannibas actually promotes nerve cell growth in the brain, we all know that alcohol killsaddicted to meth?, try pot, seriously, there’s a rehabilitation centre somewhere that found it to be the only thing that’s worksi am a decent person and i use pot, i know many more decnet people who do too, see the nature of things; reefer madness 2, with david suzukithis issue is very complex, but it has alot to do with the greed of capitalists with huge lobby power over government and the ignorance of many common folks brainwashed by liescannibas has been utilized by our ancestors for tens of thousands of years, this current laws r only temporary, FREE THE WEED!!!!if this really is a free country let me grow

challenge to all pot smokers- see if you can give it up for a week- betcha can’t

1. I did not, nor would I, say that pot somking will ever stop.2. I live in this world,like you, and not in a glass house. I have flaws and problems, but the topic of this bitch is pot, so that is what I’m giving my opinion on.3. I am neither silly nor naive, but I’m not going to waste my time trying to convince you of that.4. Stating that because coke and meth are worse that pot, pot is therefore harmless and its use is not worthy of intelligent debate is an evasive and immature tactic that people often resort to when they know they don’t have a reasonable rebuttal.I don’t care if you are pissed off. I don’t care how you (illogically) justify pot use. I know what I know, I’ve seen what I’ve seen and I believe what I believe and you, nor anyone else with your tiny little views, have the ability to change it.

SOP, you apparently really need to grow up a little before your opinion is worth much.The jumps you make in associating pot with pathetic 34 year olds in “hoochwear” at the dome who work at the superstore probably applies to a very small percentage out there. I’ll even agree that a lot of people with problems do smoke a lot of pot but no reasonable person can say that a particular trait of that group then applies to all. It’s very flawed logic at best. It would be similar to saying that anyone who enjoys a beer on a patio is also a drunk who steals money from their kids to pay for weekend binges. Nonsense.Have you had a bad experience with the particular demographic you reference? Seems so.”Old dudes”…..well again, you need to do some growing up. I’ll agree that the typical 35 year old hitting on women at the dome isn’t generally a hot catch but there are many people who live happily with wide age differences. I would bet that you are just too young to get past a “Teen People” inspired ick factor. Life’s not a sitcom either baby. Wait a few years and maybe you’ll be dating a 30 year old. Ya never know.Look, anyone doing anything to the extreme will likely suffer from it. That’s not in question here. What you fail to understand in your quite high schoolish way of reasoning is that simply because a person does a particular thing doesn’t make them anything else necessarily and you are both wrong and insulting to say so, especially considering your lack of any evidence.Remember the christian preacher who got caught paying for a gay guy and drugs last week? Doesn’t mean all christians act like that though right?You seem to have a real hate for por-pot people for some reason although I cannot understand why. Baring a personal experience that messed with you, it’s really no different than many things out there. What’s different is what various people do with it.

“November 17, 2006 | 12:31 PMchallenge to all pot smokers- see if you can give it up for a week- betcha can’tno luck with pot luck”I choose to smoke. It relaxes me after a long stressful day. Its not an addiction. I have, on several occasions had to go away for work for at least a week at a time. I didn’t smoke weed on any of the business trips. Was it hard? No. Did I have withdrawal symptoms? No. Are you uneducated about this subject and talking out of your ass? YES!

“Yes, there are people who still live with their parents when they’re 34, stuff their bodies into too-tight, age-inappropriate hoochwear and head down to the ‘dome, desperately searching for someone to love them, and work part time at Superstore complaining incessantly about how broke they are.”Yes. Yes there are. I truly fail to see what on Earth that little rant has to do with pot, however. If you don’t like pot, that’s perfectly fine. Nobody’s telling you that you need to smoke it. However, you also do not need to be so incredibly judgemental towards an activity that does not harm YOU in any way, shape or form. There are many, many people out there who view a joint as no different than a couple of glasses of wine — a way to unwind. Can one develop a habit of it? Likely. Can one develop a habit of pretty much anything? Of course. You seem to be very caught up in your imagery of the stereotypical pot smoker — either an aging, tree-hugging hippie, or a Cheetos-stained basement dweller stuck in perpetual adolescence. And yet…there have been many people who have responded to you on this. Some angrily, some with pleas for reason and understanding. We have jobs. We’re productive adults. Many of us have kids. And yet, you wilfully ignore that, because we occasionally (or rarely, or often) partake in a substance of which you don’t approve. “Decent people” do smoke pot. You don’t have to like it, but I think it’s time you grew up and accepted it.

Just FYI on the “decent people don’t smoke pot” bullsh*t argument.A few years back I was friends with a medical doctor (intern at the time) who was working 100 hour weeks along with another 5-6 interns that I met through him. These people were obviously bright, dedicated and hard working people and guess what.They smoked pot.Like many professions before them with similar circumstances, they hardly had the time to go for five or six beer and could not afford the hangover and so, occasionally, when they had a few scant hours off, they would drop by an artist friend’s house, have a quick puff and basically relax/sleep. Now these people don’t exactly fit the stereotype of the “aging pothead” and I will agree that like everything, some subgroups take it to extremes but when former US presidents have admitted to having a draw you can bet that there’s a few “decent” people out there who have too.Grow up and stop with the puritan absolutes. They don’t work in the real world outside of sunday school.

Ok so I’m an indecent person and an addict…and you’re a bible thumping, child rapist? Not a fair judgement? Neither is yours you narrowminded fuckwad. Go get laid, tightass.I smoke weed on occassion…I honestly haven’t in probably a year so I’d say that hardly makes me an addict…I drink once/twice a month…I never smoke cigarettes and I never gamble, but I am an addict. To what I’m not sure but if you say so ‘No Drugs’ then I guess I am.

dear christians, the first copy of the bible was written on cannabis, and what about ‘every herb and fruit bearing tree…’ , history of christmas?, paganchristdon’t care either way?, many people r suffering unecessarily due to lack of access to this medicinal herb, it seems 2 me we should care & do something about it’sick of potheads’ says ‘smoking pot is something normal people GROW OUT OF.’… this is a huge insult to the many good people and ancestors who have lived on this planet and r living here 2day, it seems 2 me that u r very naive to the realities of this world, i think u need 2 mature/grow up, cannibas can help with this, u talk about other’s fooling themselves when u r living in a fantasy world, believe it or not, it doesn’t really matter, it is the truth’no luck with pot luck’, what was the wager?btw, there is good pot and there is bad pot, just like there r organic apples and there r pesticide ridden genetically modified apples, buyer beware.. 2 bad we can’t grow in peace-here’s 2 hopefully still packing my pipe in the 22nd century, 121, gandhi said the human body can live till 120 easy if taken care of.. perhaps i should get a vapourizer-in solidarity with all the open-minded, in defiance of the preacher man… let’s roll

Hahahahahahahahaha…hey, idiot, did you know the Beatles wrote most of their songs stoned? ‘Got to Get You Into My Life’ was Paul McC’s ode to weed. Who dictates when one is too old to toke? You?

Lalalalalalalalalalalalaaaaaaa…[fingers in ears]

Sick … you defy all normal logic. You refuse to learn which tells me you are stuck in a simple little paradigm somewhere under a rock. You are a troller. I don’t give a rat’s ass if you approve of me or not. Please crawl out from under your rock and get some psychological help. Your illusions of grandeur are unfounded and unwarranted. I feel very sorry for you.

Reasons why smokers suck (pot or cigarettes)1) Cigarette smokers take retarded amounts of smoke breaks leaving us non smokers picking up the slack for them at work.2) Pot smokers (not all but many) are ill informed but very opinionated bleeding hearts who have no life experience but love to sound intelligent…get a job and pay some bills and figure out that 10$/gram is pretty ridiculous if you want to make that rent payment. Oh wait your rich folks are giving you an allowance so you wouldn’t know anything about responsibility! 3) Both smell.4) You both have bad skin, bad teeth and you look ten years older. 5) You’re all out of shape: either malnourished or overweight which forces me to pay higher taxes for your sick asses. 6) Your clothes, your cars, and your apartments stink like a dirty ashtray.7) Your unborn children will grow up mutants dumbing down the entire future general population…thanks!

I HATE SMOKERS OF ALL KINDS,You’re a real class act.Besides illustrating the ridiculous ignorance of your comments, I could also say very similar things about fat people so do you hate them too? How about people who enjoy a few beer a week? What about people who eat meat? I know veggies that can’t stand the smell of cooked meat for example and believe all steak eaters will die asap. So? This sort of shite just proves that it’s somehow ok to insult smokers of any sort because your TV tells you it is. Grow a brain.

I know people like Sick, hell, I’m related to one. This relation threatened to have my children taken away from me because I would occasionally indulge in a midnight toot. Didn’t matter that I was responsible. had a good job, etc. Surprisingly, that lack of tolerance was in contrast to this relative’s devote Catholic faith. What’s really funny, however, is that this sanctimonious relative (who has a spouse and two adult kids) doesn’t know the rest of her family quite happily indulges when there’s an opportunity to do so. Talk about fucking blinders. Go back to your ‘Little House in the Prairie’ world, Sick.

Wow. You people are so blind, it’s actually scary. It’s hard to reconcile the fact that you preach tolerance and understanding, yet when somebody has an opinion that is different from yours, you spew the very intolerance you claim to abhor. Maybe you should all spend some time trying to fix your own hatred, intolerance and ignorance before attempting to correct it in others. Good luck.

‘no drugs’, im not sure about the other herb smokers here but i feel no need 2 justify anything 2 anyone, i am merely trying 2 teach u some facts of life, namely that cannibas has been scientifically proven 2 b beneficial 4 a wide variety of health ailments, evidence exists, it can grow in the most depleted soil without pesticides & it revives that soil, evidence exists, cannibas seed is the most nutritionally balanced (efa’s) plant food on the planet, evidence existsu told some1 ‘this world is going strait 2 hell with people like u’, in fact it is the ignorance of the masses which is fueling our demise, slow-motion suicide by ecocide, attitudes like your own, INTOLERANCE, if pot is bad than hundreds of millions of people from INDIA, BOB MARLEY, JOHN LENNON, CARL SAGAN, JRR TOLKIEN…..r all badif u don’t like pot u better throw away most of your music & stop watching most of your favorite tv shows because the hilarious irony about your ignorance is that most of the entertainment u enjoy was brought 2 u by… u guessed it, DRUGS!!!

Why are both sides of this debate putting on such airs? The side against pot is acting ‘holier than thou’; pot is not evil – I don’t enjoy it, but that doesn’t mean I hold anything against those who do. To this side, just learn a little tolerance; unless the behavior of those smoking pot is destructive to you or one of your loved ones, then there is really not an issue.To those who are for pot: just be honest. I highly doubt that very many of you smoke pot to save the world, as mwh implies pot will do i.e. soil erosion, air quality, health problems, etc as mwh cites. Many others here have cited reasons akin to saving the world, unifying the bleeding hearts of the world, and escalating humanity to a higher plane of peace and harmony (a bit sarcastic here). Most of you who use similar reasons do so to justify smoking pot. Are these the reasons you smoke pot, or started? I doubt it. It is a nice feeling to smoke up, I’ve heard (my only experience was with some rather bad stuff to begin with), and it is a great way to relax, unwind, and all that good stuff. Why not just admit this, instead of using these mother-earth-type justification arguments? I am certain that if you removed the health, environmental impact, save-the-world aspect of the issue, you’d still continue to smoke up.Both sides have claimed that the other can’t argue, and frankly, both sides are correct in saying this. Those against are digging at vague, opinionated moral arguments, and those for are grasping at very weak science – I am a scientist in industry, so know a little about scientific reasoning 8-). Neither side’s arguments hold a bit of weight, as far as I’m concerned (more fancy and opinion than science or fact). The issue itself has a few (strong) scientific underpinnings but mostly it is a human issue, and thus subjective . Admit your true reasons for being either for or against, and stop acting like amature moralists/ethicists or amature scientists. Unless you are reasonably proficient as either, the arguments sound rather weak.

k – i was with you until you tried to end your argument and then said something else :0i think someone got distracted!

Ok…so I do it cause I like it. Nothing to do with its harmful/nonharmful effects, nothing to do with opinion of others nothing to do with anything other than that I like it. I haven’t in a very long time so I am hardly an addict…but nonetheless I do it cause I like it and I don’t think there is anything wrong with that. I don’t truly understand why people have such negative opinions toward those who like it…does it really affect you that much? I am perfectly respectful of anyone who chooses not to whether for moral or health reasons or any other reason and I am also respectful of those who choose to smoke. I don’t so much support those who smoke everyday, why would I support any addiction whether mental or physical? I don’t think that this is as big of a deal as its being made out to be in this column…why can’t those who don’t let those who do do as they please and why can’t those who do let those that don’t do as they please?? What is the problem with that?

This bitch is too fucking funny – 66 replies???? – that’s got to be a record. I’ve always believed in live and let live. If you wanna smoke, roll ‘er up, boyo. If you don’t, that’s fine too. Thank Gawd for free choice.

It was either Prozac or weed – I know I made the right choice.