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comment by tacocat
tacocat  ·  3226 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Imagine if the media covered alcohol like other drugs

I don't usually talk about drugs on the internet because I don't like talking with people on the internet who want to talk about drugs. And for this one instance, talking about this in real life is even worse. Being high and unable to tell someone to shut up or politely leave is really boring.

On one hand I totally agree that pot is safe and not as harmful as alcohol, on the other hand, this argument is pushed to such a ridiculous extreme with people who really like getting high that they seem to think overwhelmingly that it doesn't impair their ability to maneuver a one ton box of steel, glass and manslaughter because they drive slower due to being paranoid.

I really never want to see alcohol compared to weed again when there are actual sobering (hehe) facts about the way drug users are treated as criminals.

It's not logical, it's hypocritical but that doesn't matter, there are a lot of illogical and hypocritical parts of society, but this argument that alcohol is worse just fills my mind with all the stoners I've known and got high with who make the same joke that no one gets high and hits their wife. The kind of people who care enough about drugs being legal to spout off about it are usually the kind of people who hinder that cause. No one else cares as much as you, we can buy a six pack. Try advocating for non violent offenders. Don't wake and bake a couple times a week. Alcoholics who get drunk in the morning get rejected by their families. The equivalent of wake and bake for alcohol is crippling dependence. All of you refocus your attention, it's not the same thing.





crafty  ·  3226 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sorry, I just don't think I'm following your argument, and if you don't want to talk about drugs, that's fine, I don't want to to goad you into a discussion you wanted to avoid in the first place. You did make a flippant top comment here and I assumed otherwise, so I apologize for responding.