tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142327341608998711.post7254493072884914110..comments2024-01-10T12:07:21.637-08:00Comments on William Hay, Writer: Marijuana Smokehaykindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390376509834647445noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142327341608998711.post-49113142925040068482010-12-30T10:48:27.826-08:002010-12-30T10:48:27.826-08:00Your argument depends upon ridicule and arrogance....Your argument depends upon ridicule and arrogance. It's also crude and meant to titillate with this lame marketting strategy. Smoking marijuania is a well established gateway drug. It's s slippery slope. Once I break the law to obatin an illicit drug that impairs my judgement then it's easier to break the law to obtain other drugs. Further, whereas once the marijuania supplier didn't traffic in other drugs this is no longer the case. Marijuania salesman most commonly sell other drugs and indeed offer them, "I've got some good y in if you want to try that" and promote it, "I've got a lot of y in and you can have some for free, it's on me (see I'm your buddy, your friendly neighbourhood drug pusher). Now as marijuania is big business, billions of dollars in sales, gangs are the principal suppliers and promoters so you become known to the underworld, associated and for the purpose of sales are targetted. It's just busin3ess. Increasingly I see chronic marijuania smokers developping a pain disorder and getting more opiates from the street before going to heroin. They'd not have been discussing their work related injury with a drug pusher if they weren't their buying drugsand the pusher just happened to have something 'stronger'. Now i can go on but since this is obvious and marijuania as a gateway drug is obvious to those who are experienced with marijuania, with drug abuse and have themselves been there, done that, and are working on helping others now out of the slavery, what's your take. I would guess you're either addicted and can't see the forest for the trees or you are promoting, possibly for profit. My association and biass is known. In the past we were concerned about 'freedom' to smoke and 'my body my own' and civil liberties issues, but today it's well recognised that marijuania impairs judgement (Amsterdam is closing cafes to foreigners, even) contributes to poverty (it's an expensive addiction right up there with nicotine), adds to the social health care burden, impairs performance, is associated with work accidents, and is a gateway drug. Was it a freudian slip that you associated it with 'crap' and it's commonly called 'shit'. Waste, toxin, ie, it's not healthy to smoke marijuania and it's not morally sound to promote marijuania smoking. Harm reduction strategies are an intermediary to abstinence. What is politically expedient is not necessarily healthy as evidenced by the governments continued orgy with the tobacco industry.haykindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07390376509834647445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142327341608998711.post-13311273013895767412010-11-23T15:22:21.650-08:002010-11-23T15:22:21.650-08:00A "gateway drug"? Good grief Bill, using...A <b>"gateway drug"</b>? Good grief Bill, using your logic I could say that taking a crap leads to heroin addiction. After all, it's in the history of every one of those addicts.Ledg Winsnoreply@blogger.com