[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', ' ') Any drug with psychoactive effects can trigger symptoms in those prone to mental disorders in the first place.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'L')ike I said, only those of us who aren't dependent on this substance should really be deciding on its legality.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hen, give it up and lets talk in a years time. Hows that for a challenge.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hen, give it up and lets talk in a years time. Hows that for a challenge.

[vision-master]

Escapism?

We all have our ways of escapism. This way is ecologically sound, harms no one and is rather enlightening.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'E')scapism?

We all have our ways of escapism. This way is ecologically sound, harms no one and is rather enlightening.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'E')scapism?

We all have our ways of escapism. This way is ecologically sound, harms no one and is rather enlightening.

[nobodypanic]

if you are genetically prone to a mental disorder, then smoking pot is like playing russian roulette. even if it does nothing to those who aren't predisposed, that's still a fairly significant negative. how the hell would anyone know if they were carrying this propensity or not?

if that stuff were some compound manufactured by big-pharma or the industrial-agricultural sector with the same purported negative characteristics, how many of you would maintain your same positions?

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'E')scapism?

We all have our ways of escapism. This way is ecologically sound, harms no one and is rather enlightening.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nobodypanic', 'i')f you are genetically prone to a mental disorder, then smoking pot is like playing russian roulette. even if it does nothing to those who aren't predisposed, that's still a fairly significant negative. how the hell would anyone know if they were carrying this propensity or not?

if that stuff were some compound manufactured by big-pharma or the industrial-agricultural sector with the same purported negative characteristics, how many of you would maintain your same positions?

[vision-master]

You're a weirdo

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'Y')ou're a weirdo

[americandream]

@pstarr

I thinks it pretty evident that anything that occurs in the ecological system is ecologically sound until it is taken out of that system, as in the agri-industry. So whilst it may be an ecologically sound species now, in a legalised world of wide spread escapist somnambulism where devices such as this are in widespread use for lulling the masses into a fog induced state of deeper apathy, there is just as reasonable a presumption that the plant could assume agri-industry standards of manipulation. Thats a reasonable hypothesis going by the commodification of other crops.

As for it's supposed safety. Let's put that to a rigorous scientic test. One that eliminates for ever any doubts as to its use.

I am just as wary of the rastafarian, sandal wearing scoundrel as I am of the kind that frequent our banks and brokerages.

Thats the difference between you and I.

edit: prostitution exists becuase women and sex are a commodity. Legalising it simply deepens sex's commodity status and further signals the second class status of women.

edit edit: In fact I am utterly againt the institution of the family which is the very heart of bourgeoisie values, both transmitting those values from generation to generation as well as within the confines of marriage/civil union. Women are not mere breeders and places where men derive pleasure. They are full humans who have the right to a sovereign life free from the strictures of middle class slavery as well as the confines of the ritual of home making. So a prude, I am not. A wishy washy liberal I most certainly am not.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nobodypanic', 'i')f you are genetically prone to a mental disorder, then smoking pot is like playing russian roulette.

[americandream]

@pstrarr

I'll issue here a little note to remind you with later. Were pot to be legalised, it would assume prime commodity status (as in investor demand and all the various changes deemed necessary to make it profitable, within two years at the outside. In addition, I suspect that it will become, like alcohol and cigarettes, another crutch by which the shopping masses will kept in a state of perpetual idiocy. In addition, we will see many of the so-called leftie types diving headlng into the corporatisation of this substance. Finally, we will see the full horrors of this addiciton, like alcohol and cigarettes, wreak havoc on the budgets and lives of the poor.

The need for substances, especially amongst the poor is testimony to the failure of capitalism, it's that simple...as with prostitution and other forms of violence against women. One cannot sanitise these things. A woman should not have to sell her genitals for a living (nor should a man or bisexual). Where this arises, there is a problem and this is its symptom.

Leaving aside the effects of commecialising another escapist substance, I would like to see conclusive evidence that this drug will not harm its users. Once that is sufficiently convincing, I will acquiesce to legalisation personally although like I said, I am always mindful that all escapisms in capitalist purgatory invariably do the greatest harm to its victims irrespective of how trendy we may try to make these things.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'e')dit: prostitution exists becuase women and sex are a commodity.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'e')dit: prostitution exists becuase women and sex are a commodity.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', ' ') I have not tried this treatment because of no ready source of pot and it being illegal here.