I'll have to look it up.
Also anecdotal: The vast majority of smokers I know are all highly intelligent people. I do know a few who might fit the stereotype of dirty hippies, and I know a few who are fairly average working-class Americans, but (and this is probably a biased sampling based on my circle of friends) most are people with varying heights of high IQ scores, very successful jobs, and proactive mindsets. They are goal-oriented, usually pretty organized, brilliantly creative in one facet or another, and by all outward appearances "normal". They smoke for the same reason I drink (I don't smoke because of my all-smoke allergy and I don't have a vaporizer [the boyfriend is going to change that in some way, Syn, before you ask again]). They want to relax their minds (which usually are constantly moving). These are not people who, if pot were legalized, would suddenly devolve into degenerate behavior. They are responsible, tax-paying, charity-giving, world-enhancing adults who ought not to be punished for enjoying a drug that actually is safer than booze.
As to the less-safe drugs, regulating them in much the same way as alcohol seems good to me. Instead of people buying dangerous stuff off the streets and using it in dangerous ways ANYWAY, teaching them in realistic and scientific ways in school as part of the required health program will help them understand what the ill effects are if they should do it and also having a regulation means you can monitor the quality - and tax it.
Alcohol damages your body in excess. During prohibition, when it was illegal, people laced it with all sorts of shit, including embalming fluid. Now it's subject to the same laws as other legal foods - you can't put that shit in there without getting punished (if you're operating legally) and people can trust that what they get from a legal still/brewery is consumable. Imagine if we did the same to all the other stuff we have going on out there.
Also anecdotal: The vast majority of smokers I know are all highly intelligent people. I do know a few who might fit the stereotype of dirty hippies, and I know a few who are fairly average working-class Americans, but (and this is probably a biased sampling based on my circle of friends) most are people with varying heights of high IQ scores, very successful jobs, and proactive mindsets. They are goal-oriented, usually pretty organized, brilliantly creative in one facet or another, and by all outward appearances "normal". They smoke for the same reason I drink (I don't smoke because of my all-smoke allergy and I don't have a vaporizer [the boyfriend is going to change that in some way, Syn, before you ask again]). They want to relax their minds (which usually are constantly moving). These are not people who, if pot were legalized, would suddenly devolve into degenerate behavior. They are responsible, tax-paying, charity-giving, world-enhancing adults who ought not to be punished for enjoying a drug that actually is safer than booze.
As to the less-safe drugs, regulating them in much the same way as alcohol seems good to me. Instead of people buying dangerous stuff off the streets and using it in dangerous ways ANYWAY, teaching them in realistic and scientific ways in school as part of the required health program will help them understand what the ill effects are if they should do it and also having a regulation means you can monitor the quality - and tax it.
Alcohol damages your body in excess. During prohibition, when it was illegal, people laced it with all sorts of shit, including embalming fluid. Now it's subject to the same laws as other legal foods - you can't put that shit in there without getting punished (if you're operating legally) and people can trust that what they get from a legal still/brewery is consumable. Imagine if we did the same to all the other stuff we have going on out there.
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