Monday, February 19, 2007

it's been a while eh!?

one of my friends recently wrote this...

"It has come to my attention that unscrupulous evil people, dealers of marijuana, have gone to extreme potentially life threatening lengths to ensure they can make more cash. To all smokers and friends of people who smoke you need to spread the word:

'These people have been spraying cheap bog standard weed with silicate spray; essentially small shards of plastic, to make it look like that the leaves are covered in THC, at least eight people have died as a consequence of this and some of my friends have seen the product first hand. There are two ways of telling apparently, if you lick the bud and get the feeling of sand or grit between your teeth keep away from it and if when pouring it out the white crystals bounce this is another result of this deceitful and evil practise'

Just an example of how the governments canabis laws only benefit the hardened criminal underworld with no moral conscience, if marijuana and indeed all other drugs were legalised and controlled this practise would be next to impossible and people in the whole would be a lot safer."

An interesting point...

I can't help but notice that [he] is essentially blaming the government for the fact that they haven't legalised weed, for the deaths of these people... when in fact if the people actually listened to the law of the land then maybe they wouldn't put themself at risk...

I wonder when the conspiracy is going to come out that it was the goverment that was funding the plastic coating of the weed in order to make weed more dangerous, and therefore put people off smoking it...

Essentially my point is, why should the government listen to the people?

Response, because the people put the government there...

my response, so why don't the people listen to the goverment?

seems to be a bit of a catch 22...

peace!

1 Comments:

Blogger Lifewish said...

Good to have you back in the blogosphere :)

I'd note that your mate doesn't actually say government should listen to the people "because the people put the government there". He instead suggests that the government should go with what he thinks is the most sensible position. This is a rather more reasonable position.

Whether he's actually right is a harder question, but I think he's pretty close to the mark. Health-wise, cannabis is far better for you than tobacco. The only worry is its rather complicated memory-related effects - we think cannabis does something, but we're not quite sure what, or whether it's good or bad.

What we do know is that the illegal market in cannabis is a very bad thing for users' health. The only two real solutions to this are either to destroy the market or to legalise it. Destruction has proven impossible - maybe it's time to try legalisation?

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