Donald!

[JaneV2.0]

I see Reefer Madness is still winning hearts and minds. I don't use cannabis much these days--I still have half the few grams I bought las summer (legally, natch)--but wnen I did use it with some frequency, I was setting the world on fire--working one or two jobs while going to school full time, still had the time and energy for a social life. Didn't notice that I lost any IQ points (I tested to make sure ). Maybe I should step up my consumption.

I heard The Donald and Chris Matthews bloviating about marijuana and lack of motivation blah blah blah and I wondered if they and their friends ever enjoyed a glass of wine or a cup of coffee--or any one of a number of pharmaceutical drugs to "take the edge off." Or if they ever enjoyed much of anything, frankly.

ETA: And I still haven't made up a batch of cannabis salve. I obviously need a round TUIT.

[LDAHL]

I see Reefer Madness is still winning hearts and minds. I don't use cannabis much these days--I still have half the few grams I bought las summer (legally, natch)--but wnen I did use it with some frequency, I was setting the world on fire--working one or two jobs while going to school full time, still had the time and energy for a social life. Didn't notice that I lost any IQ points (I tested to make sure ). Maybe I should step up my consumption.

I heard The Donald and Chris Matthews bloviating about marijuana and lack of motivation blah blah blah and I wondered if they and their friends ever enjoyed a glass of wine or a cup of coffee--or any one of a number of pharmaceutical drugs to "take the edge off." Or if they ever enjoyed much of anything, frankly.

I certainly agree with you that the stupidity-inducing effect seems mostly temporary. I also certainly agree with you that there are many other forms of recreational stupidity, both legal and illegal. My point was that adults should generally have the right to do what they wish absent any harm to others.

I see no need for the sort of Reefer Madness moral panic you're talking about, but I do reserve the right to a certain distaste for dumb, empty activities like pot smoking or ice fishing.

[iris lilies]

Oh god, another abortion thread...

[JaneV2.0]

I certainly agree with you that the stupidity-inducing effect seems mostly temporary. I also certainly agree with you that there are many other forms of recreational stupidity, both legal and illegal. My point was that adults should generally have the right to do what they wish absent any harm to others.

I see no need for the sort of Reefer Madness moral panic you're talking about, but I do reserve the right to a certain distaste for dumb, empty activities like pot smoking or ice fishing.

You won't catch me ice fishing, that's for sure. Or pursuing any one of a number of activities that seem dumb to me, but not to you. That's what makes the world an interesting place.

[razz]

Canada seems to be getting set to ease on on the personal use. Unfortunately, I hear that some legal growers are now stinking up the neighbourhoods with their grow-ops.
Just a query; I am hearing that the legalization of MJ has led to the undesirable gangs moving in the buy and take over the grow-ops for sale elsewhere. Is it still too early to tell.
Someone told me that Portugal had no restrictions on drugs and that eased the problems. When I was there last December I asked about this. Turns out that the individuals who use drugs are not charged which enables them to seek help as needed with addiction but the dealers are charged harshly.

I agree, IL, this is probably another abortion type of thread.

[Miss Cellane]

If a woman has to be "punished" for having an abortion, then I think the man who contributed to the pregnancy should get the exact same punishment.

[Ultralight]

If a woman has to be "punished" for having an abortion, then I think the man who contributed to the pregnancy should get the exact same punishment.

After he ejaculates in her birth canal he no longer has any legal wherewithal to prevent or mandate an abortion or carrying the pregnancy to term.

[Rogar]

I've read in two separate mainstream sources that Obama has had a strong resurgence in popularity. They both speculated that the current political line up has provided examples of what a bad leader could really be like.

[Williamsmith]

I don't know, I would like to see Mrs. Trump do the Tango. But not while ISIL is still blowing people up.

[Miss Cellane]

After he ejaculates in her birth canal he no longer has any legal wherewithal to prevent or mandate an abortion or carrying the pregnancy to term.

Oh, I know that.

But I'm tired of seeing unwanted pregnancy treated as though the woman got pregnant in a vacuum. There's a second party to every pregnancy, and there's no reason we can't change the laws to make that second party more accountable.

It's like when I was in grad school and there was a rash of sexual assaults on women on campus. The administration's solution? Women should stay in their dorms after dark. Regardless of whether or not they had evening classes or needed to use the library or computer lab. Why not switch things around and give the men, the potential assailants, a curfew?

We still have a very, very patriarchal view of women and pregnancy, that needs to change.