Oregon marijuana law!

Dozens of people come up to me, every day, asking me to pay for their education. I'll give you the same answer I give to them: only if you let me ride you like a pony.

I'm willing to support the solution that offers the best chance of success. In your case, bongstar, I think education has done all it can do.

What?

The only problem I have with people like you is that your monomaniacal obsession with marijuana is astoundingly boring. Don't you have any other interests in life? Like cars, or girls, or being ridden like a pony?

It only hurts when I laugh.

Are you in pain?

bongstar, I've got to agree with joe. Despite your assertions, you are obviously obsessed with this substance. This is not the actions of someone who is not addicted. Get off it before it screws your life up any more than it already has. And before you start wasting your time trying to convince me otherwise, I simply won't believe your protestations to the contrary. You are obviously a drug addict. I've been there and I know.

I think all LAWS against pot suck.

But I understand what Wilso is saying -- and certainly there are LOTS of people like him for whom one is too many -- and many are not enough.

So it seems to me that best way to deal with the problem is to take it out of the realm of criminal law --and place it where it belongs -- with the medical profession.

We should be treating people for having propensities to addictive behavior -- rather than trying to put them in jail for doing something comparable to what people do legally with food, coffee, booze, cigarettes, and the like.

By the way -- so that there is no question about this: "Use" -- even heavy, regular use -- does not eqate to addiction. I know people who smoke two or three times a week normally, who can give the stuff up (and have) for months and months at a time -- JUST AS A TEST.

Addiction has to do with compulsive use -- use that cannot be controlled.

So I disagree with the few comments that have been sent in your direction that gratuitously designate you as an addict.

I'm wondering if the pot smoking may be affecting bongstar's spelling. Good lord.

For the record, though, I'm for decriminalizing the stuff. We voted that way in Seattle last month. To make enforcement of pot law the lowest police priority. Probably more symbolic than anything else, but what the hey.

Also for the record: I don't partake...

I wonder why this has to come to me having a problem with substance abuse. Ill tell you what, we should just criminalize any activity that may lead towards an addiction. Oh, wait, we cant outlaw life, can we?

I don't ever plan on using drugs, including pot except possibly where it's legal. But I nevertheless know that it's not that bad for you...

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/addictiv.htm

I don't think the sentences for possesion should be so harsh.

Hey...nobody's perfect!

There is a cure for that, though!

Let us consider who is trying to control who in the case of "lifestyle regulation".

I'm I trying to tell you how to live, or are you trying to tell me how to live?

My educational argument comes from the fact that there is a lot of funding in enforcement of arbitrary laws that could be spent on betterment instead of suppression.



Thread long lost.....I've been gone for a year.

Out on parole?

Well, bongstar's spelling improved during that year off--that's a plus!

As for my non-partaking, it's not as though I never have. I was, like, a child of the '60s. Now I just stick to alcohol; it's more predictable...

Many inmates find that their enforced leisure provides a perfect opportunity to complete their GEDs.