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Originally Posted by bamaboy
you do realize that responsible alcohol use is limited to no more than 2 drinks at one sitting less than 3 times per month. Tell me where to find these kinds of drinkers and I will show you the casual heroine user. You sound like one of those counselors or some kind of probation officer.
Yes, most addicts did start with pot, but do most pot smokers become addicts, hell no. Look at any 10 people in the USA, any 10, no matter where you find them. I'll be willing to bet the dismemberment of my own cock that at least 7 of them have tried pot and of those 7 at least 4 of them have/will/has casually used pot at some time in their life. If you have never used pot how is it that you seem to know so much. Put the books down. As far as your friend goes, people are honest in that kind of research and there are so many variable in surveys that they are never accurate and most scientific surveys also figure in an equation for the possibility of the accuracy itself. You are entitled to your opinion, but please come with facts before you try to take the high road above other people. Premie or not.
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I'm not trying to come down on anyone here. If pot became legal, it wouldn't be the end of the world. I just think the problem would still remain, and probably get worse, not better. I'm not talking about crime, I'm talking about the health and social problems that come with addiction etc. I've also traveled to countries where all drugs (hard and soft) are readily available and seen the results. I don't know you, but I doubt you've seen some of the things I'm refering to when I say results, and if you have; my apologise for the assumption, and we obviously took different things away from that experience. No, I've never used pot, and I'll admit I DO have a bias in the fact that a large part, of the not so good memories in my life, involve drugs, those that use and sell them and even those that produce them.
As for my friends research; it's WAY more then a survey. It's the major part of her research for a PhD. It won't be done for awhile yet, otherwise I'd post up a link to the final paper etc. Just for the record as well, she admitted to me that before her research, she had ZERO problem with legalizing pot. She's done a total 180 now.
Essentially my main problem with legalizing pot is that I don't see it being much longer till hard drugs are legal. I just see one thing leading to another here.