The Death Knell of the Prohition of Weed

[Creed of Heresy]

You do know, really, that legalizing weed will still allow you to keep those nice scientific advances made without hemp.

WE WON'T REGRESS?! D8< WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T SOMEONE TELL ME?!

I'm just fuckin' with ya. I'm aware of this. ;P

As I said, marijuana legalization is about weighing public safety (as any substance) against the civil rights to do what you want to your own body.

Well, I'm one of those crazies that thinks if someone really wants to end their life because they are in mind-breaking pain and cannot be treated for it and there's no real hope of them recovering they should be allowed to self-terminate or assisted-terminate, so... But yeah, public safety is still a thing, won't argue that.

Marijuana does have some serious downsides:
- Youth that consume cannabis habitually before their late teens are significantly more prone to anxiety disorders and mental illness

Well yeah. They're still in their developing period. That's a responsibility of the parents, though.

- Users experience varying effects from excellent coordination to severely impaired

Guilty of both. Somehow.

- Sudden Infant Death (SIDs) rises with exposure to second hand smoke (of any kind, but the data on infant-cannabis exposure is next to nil)

For the former; well YEAH. And for the latter; ...again, well YEAH. *lol*

- People who are at-risk for mental illnesses raise their risk by using a psychedelic

I HAVE mental illnesses. Yet they also tend to become far less pronounced while under the influence of marijuana.

Marijuana is a fairly chaotic intoxicant, isn't it?

Of course, when you look at alcohol, you get the similar-to-worse downsides if one is an severe alcoholic or prone to alcoholism.

So the analogy between the two of them is striking.

On the upside, marijuana doesn't allow users to kill themselves by simply consuming too much, creates a minor physiological addiction (compared to coffee) and more often relaxes people.

Legalization requires that the public develop means to detect impaired driving (the walking test, abc's, etc), develop a culture of shunning unsafe drivers and come to grips that by legalizing weed, they're going to get nasty events by criminals who blame the drug for their criminal actions.

It is inevitable (already happens) that people will crash and possibly kill/maim others while high on weed.

The problem is cultural, not a matter of legality.

But if our culture refuses to take responsibility, expect a puritanical Prohibition-style backlash.

The problem isn't Pot.

It's irresponsible pot-heads who make responsible users look bad.

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Basically, I completely and totally agree with all of this. Responsibility is a key element to any society, and yet society sees fit to utilize the "kindergarten approach," as I call it. "Uh oh Billy was caught eating his Elmer's glue again so you've all lost your glue privileges for this week!" Drives me nuts. I get stoned, and I do one of three things. 1: I go walking around and just zone. 2: I write. I write a LOT, or 3: I go to the store and I buy WAY TOO FUCKING MANY BOXES OF CHIPS AHOY. So I either just do nothing, I provide to culture [heh, I can dream], or I stimulate the economy.

but then here comes Tweeny McFuckface and he rearends his family's SUV into his neighbor's Subaru. This is somehow legitimate reason to keep me from being able to easily access weed.

The fuck. Since when are we human beings NOT responsible for our own actions??

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Also, this idea of starting companies to sell weed sounds pretty good. I'm thinking of maybe jumping on this bandwagon if/when it comes to Wisconsin. Going to apply for a business loan at the bank and mingle it with my culinary skills, and open a restaurant centered around selling courses where pot-butter is an ingredient in either the appetizer, the main course, the dessert, the drinks, or some/all of the above. Bud-butter is versatile and its flavor can be finely tuned for culinary arts; you need only the creativity and innovation to make it work. And, seriously, get made an excellent meal that gets you stoned? Shit, I might even add a lounge room to said restaurant for slipping-in stoning for watching TV and playing video games and chilling with others, maybe with hookahs for continuing the fun, and of course with proper interior design work involving psychadelic designs and coloring...

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You probably won't be able to get that loan as a marijuana purveyor, since it's still a federal crime and banks are cautious about things like that. Just get the loan for the restaurant, the bank doesn't need to know the details of your seasoning and decoration practices.

Well of course.