alcoholics versus potheads

[Mastakilla]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUqX07JX ... re=channel

Discuss.

[~[FGS]SaSQuATcH~]

his voice is totally like yours!

[synthetic]

I lasted 50 seconds then this massive yawn was about to bust my jaw.. does it get more interesting in the end or something?

[Mastakilla]

Well if your get to the part where the pothead speaks basically there's an interesting discussion going on.

Drinking is legal, yet alot of drunks cause alot of trouble, are agressive etc. Whereas potheads just sit in their own little dream bubble and usually harm no one. I don't know, I liked the song and it had a smart message going on, lol. That and the guy later on has the same hat as me.

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[SPAZ ROFELZ]

I used to smoke alot of pot, like biblical amounts. Woke up one day and haven't touched the metabolic end product for about 4 years. WTF?

[ShadowRunner]

isnt it just a taxation argument, alcohol is good revenue for the government, hence advertising, sales, drink-driving deaths tolerated etc...

[Mastakilla]

isnt it just a taxation argument, alcohol is good revenue for the government, hence advertising, sales, drink-driving deaths tolerated etc...

Yep thats the arguement, and yep alcohol is good revenue but also costs alot of money in terms of scraping the bloody pulps from the pavement.
The arguement is basically that weed should be legal, since alcohol is aswell, and alcohol is much more dangerous, not only for yourself but other's around you. Legalizing weed would also be good revenue for the government, and you'd be able to monitor who the weed is sold to (to the same extend you can monitor the sale of alcohol anyway...)

It works really good in Holland anyway, less kids get high aswell because it isn't as cool as when it would be illegal. Alot of people just try it once, do it too much, get sick as hell from it and never touch it again, haha

[~DJ~]

boring

[Skilgannon]

Potheads every time. For reasons Masta already stated...

[Jima B]

Alcoholics FTW.
Potheads are homosexual.

*love* yeah.

[Kuchcik]

Alcoholics FTW.
Potheads are homosexual.

*love* yeah.

I find the amount of failure in your post... disturbing.

Pot isn't as destructive as alcohol, and it's healthier, and it feels better

[Skilgannon]

Alcoholics FTW.
Potheads are homosexual.

*love* yeah.

I find the amount of failure in your post... disturbing.

Pot isn't as destructive as alcohol, and it's healthier, and it feels better

+1

[Jima B]

Alcoholics FTW.
Potheads are homosexual.

*love* yeah.

I find the amount of failure in your post... disturbing.

Pot isn't as destructive as alcohol, and it's healthier, and it feels better

I disagree.
I've known more people to feel the destructive effects of pot than alcohol. Many more. It leads to some strong mental health problems in the long run, also.
It can help, but so can alcohol. Both are abused, both are bad. Alcohol is much harder to controll.

As for the speculative and stereotypical side of things, people who smoke pot work less and lay about more. Beer drinkers hold down jobs and contribute massively to society, and pay their taxes and contribute to the healthcare system that fixes them when they break.

That said, I'm not against pot, but I will say one thing - nobody gets drunk from sitting in the same room as someone drinking beer. It's completely up to you weather you feel the effects of alcohol or not. Alcohol also saves lives and makes people better. It's one hell of a medicine.

[Mastakilla]

Alcoholics FTW.
Potheads are homosexual.

*love* yeah.

I find the amount of failure in your post... disturbing.

Pot isn't as destructive as alcohol, and it's healthier, and it feels better

I disagree.
I've known more people to feel the destructive effects of pot than alcohol. Many more. It leads to some strong mental health problems in the long run, also.
It can help, but so can alcohol. Both are abused, both are bad. Alcohol is much harder to controll.

As for the speculative and stereotypical side of things, people who smoke pot work less and lay about more. Beer drinkers hold down jobs and contribute massively to society, and pay their taxes and contribute to the healthcare system that fixes them when they break.

That said, I'm not against pot, but I will say one thing - nobody gets drunk from sitting in the same room as someone drinking beer. It's completely up to you weather you feel the effects of alcohol or not. Alcohol also saves lives and makes people better. It's one hell of a medicine.

You're comparing someone who smokes weed everyday with a casual drinker though, that's not fair.
Someone who smokes pot in the weekend can be just as productive as someone who get hammered in the weekend.

"For twenty-five years, researchers have searched for a marijuana-induced amotivational syndrome and have failed to find it. People who are intoxicated constantly, regardless of the drug, are unlikely to be productive members of society. There is nothing about marijuana specifically that causes people to lose their drive and ambition. In laboratory studies, subjects given high doses of marijuana for several days or even several weeks exhibit no decrease in work motivation or productivity. Among working adults, marijuana users tend to earn higher wages than non-users. College students who use marijuana have the same grades as nonusers. Among high school students, heavy use is associated with school failure, but school failure usually comes first."

[Jima B]

Well, that's how people do it. Also, people have searched for a lot of marajuana related effects and failed to find a link, but the evidence of mental disorders caused by marajuana still exists.
Even if it's not as dangerous as drinking beer; drinking is something you do to yourself and nobody around you. Nobody gets drunk from alcohol fumes.

Many people don't drink all day every day, especially not in comparison to the ammount of people who just casually drink alcohol.

Why the hell does it matter?
I drink lots and enjoy it, and don't hurt anyone.

Legal pot would be good, if it was properly restricted. The effects of second hand smoke are much more dangerous and immediate when tobacco is replaced with marajuana.
Although by the time all the restrictions and taxes came in to place it might be better if it'd just stayed illegal. >_<