A question: When Pot is legal nationwide...
Will we as a nation mellow out a little? Start helping people before corporations?
Will it raise our consciousness as a Nation?
Could it enable us to fulfill the promise of a government "Of the people and for the people?"
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My example was from a more 20 ish to 30 ish type of individual. I hope that people in their 50's would still have an open mind to society but with age comes baggage. I would guess after time it would. It did take some time for the individual in my example to change, but when he did there was no turning back. I'm assuming he's grey and happy, living a gentler life with more understanding and compassion by now.
Nice post btw.
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Then read my post.
If you can't figure it out, there's nothing I can say to make it clearer for you. I'm not giving advice.
Sorry. 
You see prejudice I don't, does that mean what you say is true, nah.
But you go right ahead and keep patting yourself on the back for spreading ignorance.
Have a fun day in your castle.
XOXO
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Oh and if you think I'm being prejudice about 50 years olds, FFS, I just turned 50, so I'm basically prejudice of myself?!?!
A+ on the ignorant snark
Perhaps it would serve as a literal opiate of the people.
Perhaps it would serve as a literal opiate of the people.
So did you mean to imply that I must be under the influence of some powerful drug to even have that Idea? Oh, and what exactly is "something to stronger?"
You really think cannabis is like an opiate?
I've been working and still am working in the tech industry mainly working on 3d game art that I put myself through school for. I love science and I have a wood shop in my garage that's always fun and I do 90% of the cooking and chores around the house. I'm taking medication for PTSD from early childhood abuse but have never taken it out on anyone, ever (except for bullies that picked on me through school), I'm married and have the happiest little girl on the block. Where do I fit into your little theory?
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Why Yes, yes I do. Have anymore genius insight to share?
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I've talked to one too many trolls around here and replied to your post because it's not something a typical liberal would say. But you go on, and try and convince the rest of the crowd here.
Oh and thanks for bolding the "er" cause I certainly wouldn't have figured it out at all. Ooh I believe I'm getting the vapors. Our discussion has so tasked my poor "stoopiders" little brain.
Jeebus
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It's a spectrum huh.
"It's a spectrum and not a light switch with 'stupid' and 'not stupid' labels. "
Riiiight but stupid, and not stupid is still in the "spectrum" somewhere since you've used those in your explanation.
Oh and no label's on that spectrum well that clears it up.
just F'ing genious.
"Populace will become stupider and lazier than ever..." in descending order I'm sure.
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smoke pot. Interesting that you would think that. 
"Populace will become stupider and lazier than ever..."
Yes that sound like a succinct analysis that every Republican I know would agree with.
jeebus.
That's the way you want to advocate for it?
When I was being abused as a child (pot free) I was in bad shape, abusing my self on top of the abuse I was getting. My head would spin constantly and I was quickly circling black hole. After my first joint as a teenager, all the darkness cleared away, I realized my parents were crazy and for once I could think clearly and quit abusing myself.
I succeeded despite all that happened to me and I'm living a better life than my parents financially, emotionally, and mentally.
You have no experience, so of course your talking out of both sides of your mouth.
Good night Princess
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"You imply that I'm a girl in an attempt to hurt my delicate feelings. How progressive of you... "
Really?
"All I have on my side statistics, empirical evidence and years of studies. Not to mention a helping heaping dose of common sense. How could all of that stand up to your anecdotal story?!"
from drugabuse.gov ?
now it all makes sense.
Jeebus
And you believe every piece of information the government put's out?
"the least untruthful answer" via Clapper
So the government always disseminates truth huh?
I believe the color in your sky is pink with flying purple elephants.
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oh that was good. Thanks for that.
drugabuse.gov
Let's roll out the war on drugs agenda and all it's trappings.
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Sure, there will be a "curiosity spike" (or a "nostalgia spike"
in use. But when that's over, will the baseline usage rate among Americans change a lot? I seriously doubt it. I don't think that there are that many people out there who really want to use marijuana, but are deterred by the law or lack of access. It's not as if pot isn't readily available nationwide...or that individual possession is much of a priority for law enforcement. I'd expect maybe a 10% increase in use, once the initial spike wears off.
...I was born and raised using guns to kill birds and animals for sport, I even belonged to our local army reserve. I had a crew cut and even though in 1965 everybody I knew was sexist, I was that too.
By the third time 'getting high' I had traded my rifles for a broken down Volkswagen, allowed my hair to grow longer than was allowed by the military and discovered that there were people other than myself with needs and interests as important as my own. And I remembered how to laugh...and laugh we did.
It would be great to see my experience applied on a mass scale.
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I bet there will be a lot less bitching & complaining.
This doesn't change that cannabis is, in fact, a drug.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drug
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/drug
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug
Seriously man, any substance that alters the body's functions and is administered for that purpose is a drug. "Medicine" is a similar though not entirely identical term - if it's medicine, you're taking the substance to address a health condition (jokes aside, sobriety is not a health issue
) while "drug" is a blanket term for whatever alters the body's processes.
But point taken.
A Leafy Jesus? No.
But absolutely anything that could contribute to even a minor chillaxing of the National Overmind is... a step in the right direction.
IMHO.
I always laugh when people say that. For some of us, it gets us high the same way an anti-depressant lifts the mood of the anti-depressant ingestee. Some people do not find this effect in cannabis. They get paranoid, or have strange thought patterns.
Each person reacts differently to cannabis so there can't really be a blanket statement about its impact on society. Strains of cannabis are different. Some make you sleepy, some ease pain and seizure activity, some make you hungry, some ease nausea, or help you focus while easing pain, acting as an anti-depressant and giving an appetite.
So say I am a cannabis user. My mood is lifted, I feel as if I can be productive without getting bogged down in depression or other symptoms ( "I" being the person who partakes of cannabis ) rather than spending the day unproductively in bed, in pain or too weighed down by PTSD or my cancer or my MS to function.
I am not reliant on pharmaceutical products - which carry risks of side effects like suicidal ideation, profound weight gain, lack of libido, ones head can practically fall off while one is driving in one's sleep, for crying out loud - that many pharmacies have trouble carrying anyway and that I cannot afford, having absolutely no insurance or access to health care.
All things being set right, I could grow this plant for free. How conservative is that, both fiscally and in terms of small government?
How sinful that brains tell people that things will be okay. That their bodies are not in pain anymore." You get PLEASURE from easing your symptoms? How DARE you!!!! You should be "low."
Well, shopping, eating, football, personal stock market gains and good beer get you high, too. Anyway.
As to the OP, maybe a few more people will try it for symptoms. Pharm sales will go down, but things will level out. And maybe ( my choice above ) people who are eating, sleeping well, not in pain or nauseated will make better citizens and will, after all, meet in the public squares and sing kumbaiya....
Hell, I get much more high off nicotine than pot. c'est la vie.
Now, betel leaf, on the other hand...
because AFAIC, that's like drinking and driving.
The police will still bust you for DUI, which still means Driving Under the Influence. And as they say in the PSAs: "Buzzed Driving" is "Drunk Driving"
especially if they decide to become hemp farmers
I often read the OP and respond before reading the thread. Sorry. 
