dopey the clown
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I've heard people say shit like this in public, namely politicians, but I didn't think they actually believed it. Nobody is that clueless, right? Not in 2009. With the internet and everything? Really?
This is a real boon for the non-abuser...competing with stoners to get and keep jobs is like taking money away from retards. I say pile it up on the street corners and give it away. Those with a propensity to use it will self-destruct, or at the very least self-identify themselves as losers. That's good for the rest of us. It IS still legal to discriminate against losers.
The funny thing is that users think the rest of us don't know who they are. We know a lot more than they think. And if I saw a doctor using it at a party the word would be on the streets before they got home.
You can ask people that were in the military through the late 70s and early 80s, as I was, what kind of difference mandatory random drug testing did in cleaning out nonperformers from the ranks. The difference before-after drug testing was like night and day.
All it takes is to be out on a street in Amsterdam on a Sunday morning to observe that free recreational drug use is not a good thing. The users come out and trudge through the streets like zombies...return of the night of the living dead.
I find it interesting when the news reports that the vast majority of medical marijuana prescriptions around here are coming from the same 11 doctors, a number of whom have restricted medical licenses and can't legally prescribe cough syrup. In another time and place we had a different name for them...pushers.
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I remember growing up my Dad's first duty posting as a doctor in the Army in the late 70's. Drug use in the army was rampant at the time, a legacy from the later years in Vietnam. He stayed busy in the ER repairing broken bodies from all sorts of accidents and violence from people smoking dope. When I was a bit older in the early 80's he'd take me around on his rounds checking up on patients on Saturday morning and point out what had happened to these people and why.
Once the military started clearing up the drug abuse, by Desert Storm it was a whole different scene. The military hospital and ER was a quiet place compared to 10 years before.
It's clear there are some people that want to stay bombed out of their mind, so I believe we need to find a way to accommodate that and separate it from society to keep everyone else safe.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/colorado/815560-town-breckenridge-legalize-marijuana-5.html
This is a real boon for the non-abuser...competing with stoners to get and keep jobs is like taking money away from retards. I say pile it up on the street corners and give it away. Those with a propensity to use it will self-destruct, or at the very least self-identify themselves as losers. That's good for the rest of us. It IS still legal to discriminate against losers.
The funny thing is that users think the rest of us don't know who they are. We know a lot more than they think. And if I saw a doctor using it at a party the word would be on the streets before they got home.
You can ask people that were in the military through the late 70s and early 80s, as I was, what kind of difference mandatory random drug testing did in cleaning out nonperformers from the ranks. The difference before-after drug testing was like night and day.
All it takes is to be out on a street in Amsterdam on a Sunday morning to observe that free recreational drug use is not a good thing. The users come out and trudge through the streets like zombies...return of the night of the living dead.
I find it interesting when the news reports that the vast majority of medical marijuana prescriptions around here are coming from the same 11 doctors, a number of whom have restricted medical licenses and can't legally prescribe cough syrup. In another time and place we had a different name for them...pushers.
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I remember growing up my Dad's first duty posting as a doctor in the Army in the late 70's. Drug use in the army was rampant at the time, a legacy from the later years in Vietnam. He stayed busy in the ER repairing broken bodies from all sorts of accidents and violence from people smoking dope. When I was a bit older in the early 80's he'd take me around on his rounds checking up on patients on Saturday morning and point out what had happened to these people and why.
Once the military started clearing up the drug abuse, by Desert Storm it was a whole different scene. The military hospital and ER was a quiet place compared to 10 years before.
It's clear there are some people that want to stay bombed out of their mind, so I believe we need to find a way to accommodate that and separate it from society to keep everyone else safe.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/colorado/815560-town-breckenridge-legalize-marijuana-5.html
