In which I alienate half my readership

[sabotabby]

Try as I might, I just can't get excited over Proposition 19.*

I mean, this isn't an ideological stance or anything. I think that pot should be legal. The War on Drugs is ridiculous and responsible for the destruction of countless lives. It's just not an issue that I would, personally, get all activist-y about. The older and more curmudgeonly I get, the less I care and the more I wish people would get up in arms over things like convictions based on evidence obtained through torturing a child.

It might have something to do with so many of the most vocal potheads, and pot-legalization activists, are libertarian douchenuggets like this guy, and don't care about the human rights of anyone but potheads. Pot is almost worse than alcohol for bringing out the douche in people who already have latent douche tendencies. Also it smells godawful.

Anyway, those of you who are having elections right now, I hope yours go better than ours did.

* The fact that I'm Canadian might have a wee bit to do with that; Americans didn't exactly get excited over Ontario's municipal elections.

Comments

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

That's a bullshit argument.

Okay. Its actually your assertion:

You: 'stoners never accomplish stuff'

Me: 'yes they do, here are three heavy users who credited their success directly to pot"


there are ten or a hundred nameless stoners who are still living in Mom's basement and think they need to smoke up so they can tie their shoes.

The same is true of people who don't smoke pot. A few make great individual contributions to society, but most dont.


Pot didn't make Carl Sagan who he was

Well, he claims it did, so did Louie, so did Lenny. Carl's wife was so convinced, she helps run NORMAL these days.

they're useless to the rest of us regardless.

Maybe they're having a good time? How much of your life is measured by how useful it is to others?


a society that spends as much time, effort and money as ours does to derange its senses with alcohol and narcotics is a sick one.

Even if so, locking people up for being sick is basically shitty.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

I can see we're not going to come to any meeting of minds here - except wrt medical marijuana, which I consider a legitimate therapy (though even then it seems to me that THC, which we've been able to synthesize in the lab for a long time, could be better administered to people in exact measured doses via puffers, pills or patches instead of smoking whatever you can get, whenever you can get it). Shine on, you crazy diamond you....