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<blockquote data-quote="buckeye" data-source="post: 1377973" data-attributes="member: 8467"><p>As a user of neither, I have a hard time seeing the difference between alcohol and marijuana, except that alcoholic drinks were at one time necessary for survival and marijuana has always been recreational. One becomes a standard, accepted part of society, even with its many drawbacks, and one does not.</p><p></p><p>Frankly, alcohol seems a good deal more dangerous to me than marijuana. Combine a drunk's poor judgment and reckless disinhibition and you have a recipe for mayhem of one kind or another. How is the the guy who's "drunk" on marijuana? Calm, forgetful, friendly, disinclined to get up and do...anything, etc. Mad weed druggies breaking into your car to fund their addiction? Not any more of a threat or risk than some wino doing the same for alcohol, probably less so.</p><p></p><p>Alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, THC are all drugs that alter a person's mind to some degree or another. What makes them different is the degree to which their usage has been standardized. Why would THC be a "gateway drug" but alcohol and nicotine would not? What makes a "gateway"? The thrill of doing something illegal? The potential for addiction? It's cultural - any of those substances could fit the criteria. I draw the line of what makes a truly dangerous drug somewhere else - somewhere around those substances that all but certainly would make any formerly normal person become a insatiable lunatic who will do wildly dangerous, illegal things to score the next hit. </p><p></p><p>Willie Nelson smokes it up? Here's a list of things I'm more concerned about:</p><p></p><p>"Low-carb diets. Michael Moore. The Republican National Convention. Kabbalah and all Kabbalah-related products. Hi-def TV, the Bush daughters, wireless hot spots, 'The O.C.', the U.N., recycling, getting Punk'd, Danny Gans, the Latin Grammys, the real Grammys. Jeff, that Wiggle who sleeps too darn much! The Yankees payroll, all the red states, all the blue states, every hybrid car, every talk show host! Everything on the planet, everything in the solar system, everything everything everything everything everything everything - eve - everything that exists - past, present and future, in all discovered and undiscovered dimensions. Oh! And Hugh Jackman."</p><p></p><p>(with thanks to a funny TV show)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buckeye, post: 1377973, member: 8467"] As a user of neither, I have a hard time seeing the difference between alcohol and marijuana, except that alcoholic drinks were at one time necessary for survival and marijuana has always been recreational. One becomes a standard, accepted part of society, even with its many drawbacks, and one does not. Frankly, alcohol seems a good deal more dangerous to me than marijuana. Combine a drunk's poor judgment and reckless disinhibition and you have a recipe for mayhem of one kind or another. How is the the guy who's "drunk" on marijuana? Calm, forgetful, friendly, disinclined to get up and do...anything, etc. Mad weed druggies breaking into your car to fund their addiction? Not any more of a threat or risk than some wino doing the same for alcohol, probably less so. Alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, THC are all drugs that alter a person's mind to some degree or another. What makes them different is the degree to which their usage has been standardized. Why would THC be a "gateway drug" but alcohol and nicotine would not? What makes a "gateway"? The thrill of doing something illegal? The potential for addiction? It's cultural - any of those substances could fit the criteria. I draw the line of what makes a truly dangerous drug somewhere else - somewhere around those substances that all but certainly would make any formerly normal person become a insatiable lunatic who will do wildly dangerous, illegal things to score the next hit. Willie Nelson smokes it up? Here's a list of things I'm more concerned about: "Low-carb diets. Michael Moore. The Republican National Convention. Kabbalah and all Kabbalah-related products. Hi-def TV, the Bush daughters, wireless hot spots, 'The O.C.', the U.N., recycling, getting Punk'd, Danny Gans, the Latin Grammys, the real Grammys. Jeff, that Wiggle who sleeps too darn much! The Yankees payroll, all the red states, all the blue states, every hybrid car, every talk show host! Everything on the planet, everything in the solar system, everything everything everything everything everything everything - eve - everything that exists - past, present and future, in all discovered and undiscovered dimensions. Oh! And Hugh Jackman." (with thanks to a funny TV show) [/QUOTE]
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