Legalize Marijuana: Are you crazy?
On Tuesday, November 30, I posted Why I am not a Libertarian! The comments section of that post turned into a discussion about legalizing marijuana and wife rape. We will leave wife rape for another post, but for now let us talk about why some people want to legalize marijuana.
Legalize Marijuana: Are you crazy?
Anyone that wants to legalize marijuana is crazy and a study today just might prove this statement. Marijuana may increase risk of psychosis. The last paragraph of the article says, “Doctors do not understand how cannabis increases the risk of mental illness but they suspect it affects the dopamine system in the brain which is associated with pleasure.” I think I can help the doctors understand why cannabis use has a correlation with increases in the risk of mental illness.
The majority of marijuana users have a pre-existing condition called liberalism. Those of us that are not afflicted with the mental illness liberalism, know that liberalism, is in fact, a mental illness.
Liberalism: A Mental Illness.
Liberalism affects the brain by making commonsense almost non-existent which results in an attempt by the mentally ill liberal to blur the line between right and wrong. Without commonsense the mentally ill liberal is at an extreme disadvantage to accept what they know as right and what they know as wrong. The difference between right and wrong is a constant and this is why we see an increase in psychosis rates for liberals and marijuana users. Since right and wrong is a constant and liberals and marijuana users are knowingly making wrong decisions, they feel shame and guilt. This shame and guilt often manifests itself as depressing thoughts, anger, and bitterness. Many liberals try to diminish their negative feelings with alcohol, drugs and/or other addictive and destructive behavior.
Liberalism affects an individual by increasing the frequency that a liberal will attempt to rationalize their wrong decisions in such a way as to reduce their perceived personal accountability for their own decisions. This reduced personal accountability leads to an exponential growth in wrong decisions and so we see the process repeated. A liberal makes a bad decision, and then tries to rationalize that bad decision to minimize their accountability for that bad decision, now the liberal has made another bad decision and the liberal must now repeat the process repeatedly until their sanity has been extremely compromised.
Learning from one’s mistakes is dependent on the level of personal accountability a person is willing to accept. Liberalism by design diminishes personal accountability until it is impossible for a liberal to learn from their mistakes. This causes the liberal to create a fantasy reality where they perceive anyone that disagrees with their self-created reality as unrealistic, intolerant, bigoted, homophobic, racist, evil, and/or George W. Bush. The liberal is now dependent on their mental illness to hold together the fabric of their fantasy reality.
The Cure For Liberalism.
There is a cure for liberalism. It is not a pill and it is not more liberalism. The cure is accepting personal accountability for one’s own actions, which will allow the liberal to accept right and wrong as a constant without continuously attempting to blur the difference. This cure is only effective if the recovering liberal learns from their mistakes (which means not repeating the same mistakes.) Once the recovery begins, the recovering liberal will begin to solve problems instead of continuously claiming that the problem is too complicated to solve. Next, the recovering liberal will become more and more optimistic that everything does not suck, and that it is possible to live a happy life. Living by moral values will insure that the recovering liberal will not relapse into their mental illness.
Tomorrow I will list a few of the moral values that will help cure the mental illness of Liberalism.
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Wild Bill
Does this work?
January 30th, 2006 at 6:02 pmwitch
Yes it does but your date is wrong, it says you posted reply/comment in January 2006, and the post says it was made in December 2nd, 2004,
December 12th, 2006 at 10:35 amBrittany
Marijuana is overrated. and a waste of life. if you smoke Marijuana you should just go jump off a bridge because your pretty much throwing your life away. :w00t:
January 18th, 2007 at 8:42 amJade
wow. Brittany is cool. -.-
smoking weed is nothing like throwing your life away. I think it’s cool if you don’t smoke weed, so why do you non-weed smokers care if we smoke? You have to be around cigarette smoke if you’re out in public & that is actually harmful. Pot has never killed anyone. So get over it & let those who do it, enjoy it.
I think everyone would be a lot more peaceful & happy if they smoked a joint a day
-peace :heart:
January 18th, 2007 at 11:45 amCody
I’m surprised the republican administration hasn’t already legalized weed. We’ve seen our call center employees to the unemployment office, why not send our police officers too?
February 28th, 2007 at 6:14 amJesse
My only counter to your point of view is that isn’t Alcohol and Cigarrettes legal? They are more harmful… especially since MJ is all natural, where neither of the other two are. It IS more deadly and more fatal to consume the other things rather than Pot. It is rediculous to not want it legalized just because it has a single major side-affect… whereas Alcohol and Cigarettes have so many more and contain so many more ingrediants… Tisk-Tisk.
Blessed Be
~Jesse~
April 13th, 2007 at 8:06 amsgt_snip3r
what a joke this idea is. i smoke… and i for sure have no mental illness.. same goes for my friends who do it also. we do it once in a while to relax and have a little fun. also this “theory” was proven to be untrue. [Wild Bill - one of your mental illnesses is not knowing you have a mental illness, please provide a link to who PROVED this "untrue".]
August 5th, 2007 at 2:44 pmA.J.
I know what is right and wrong, and I am a “libertarian”.
It is WRONG to tell another person what they may or may not put in THEIR bodies because you FEEL it is imoral, or unsafe.
That should be up to the individual and the individual alone.
August 27th, 2007 at 4:34 pmBurbank
Why is alcohol legal and not marijuana?, the latter has proven medicinal effects, the former does not.
September 9th, 2007 at 12:14 pmNew Yawk
The most abused drug on the face of the earth is ALCOHOL. MUCH MORE SO than ALL OTHER ABUSE DRUGS COMBINED. Besides the obvious fact that it’s a terrible idea to drive (etc.) under the influence of ANY mind-altering drug, how many people do you know of that have died from a marijuana overdose?
I hope you do have your own talk show some day, Bill. On Mars.
As Bugs Bunny would say: “What an ultramaroon!” Buy you a BEER indeed. Geez.
November 30th, 2007 at 10:53 amm59
The OP rants about psychosis. Potheads laugh.
Sounds like another day in paradise.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:03 pmAdvocate
Ron Paul would be a great candidate, and many people would vote for him and his policies in a heartbeat. I hope his campaigning keeps on breaking records, and gaining public attention…because he’s still not very high up in polls, and I’d love for the media to pay more attention to him. We need someone who’s not going to enforce such arcane and strict laws on those who are peacefully enjoying a drug far less harmful / detrimental to society than tobacco and alcohol. This topic alone has the potential to sway potential adamant non-voters, and get them to raise their voice and demand that it be heard. There are still too many uneducated fools out there who took Anslinger’s lies to heart, and simply refuse to pay attention to the irrefutable facts…which are well documented…and verifiable to anyone with a computer and some free time. Things need to change; it’s ridiculous living with an elected government that refuses to listen to the voters who put them there. We are the majority.
December 18th, 2007 at 4:28 amP1_N3a
in our mind what do we percieve as right and wrong, doesn’t what the law states we can and cant do have a big part of whats right and wrong? So if weed is legalized, when we smoke we wont have anything to feel guilty about because you are not doing anything wrong because it will be legalized. this is a stupid article, and besides who cares if people smoke, i dont. As long as they stay away from me, it does not bother me in the slightest
January 1st, 2008 at 3:06 pmDUGAN
How can people be so offended by marijuana? Some of these people leaving comments are talking like it’s worse than alcohol or tobacco, in my opinion and in the opinion of every pot smoker alive, it is no where near as harmful as either. I believe it should be regulated the same as alcohol and tobacco but how can anyone say that it’s dangerous? I think the real reason it’s illegal is because the government would have to spend too much money to begin regulating it. It pisses me off enough to make me want to move to Europe. Life would be absolutely perfect if I could go to the store and buy a pack of joints. Wouldn’t that be great? I don’t know of anyone that has ever gotten so stoned they flipped out, however, I cannot say the same about alcohol. The same as I don’t know of anyone who as ever gotten marijuana poisoning, again, I cannot say the same about alcohol. How many people are addicted to marijuana? How many people are addicted to alcohol?………EXACTLY.
January 14th, 2008 at 10:49 pmDUGAN
ANNUAL AMERICAN DEATHS CAUSED BY DRUGS
TOBACCO …………………… 400,000
January 14th, 2008 at 11:04 pmALCOHOL …………………… 100,000
ALL LEGAL DRUGS ……………. 20,000
ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS ………….. 15,000
CAFFEINE ………………….. 2,000
ASPIRIN …………………… 500
MARIJUANA …………………. 0
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Source: United States government…
National Institute on Drug Abuse,
Bureau of Mortality Statistics
Russ
Defining Liberalism as a mental illness. Now I’ve heard everything
January 19th, 2008 at 7:01 pmrob
Someone who smokes weed regularly may have many of the same respiratory problems that tobacco smokers have. These people may have daily cough and phlegm, symptoms of chronic bronchitis, and more frequent chest colds. And if you continue to smoke marijuana, it can lead to abnormal functioning of lung tissue which can get injured or destroyed by marijuana smoke. Regardless of the THC content, the amount of tar inhaled by people who smoke weed and the level of carbon monoxide absorbed are three to five times larger than tobacco smokers. Doctors aren’t sure but it is prolly caused by marijuana users inhaling more deeply without a filter and holding the smoke in the lungs.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:19 amNielle
That study claims a causal link where there is none. They did not prove marijuana use leads to psychosis, only that marijuana users have higher rates of psychosis. It is already well known that people with mental health disorders, such as schizophrenia, are at higher risk for using drugs to cope with their problems. Get your facts straight and tell us something we don’t know.
February 17th, 2008 at 10:10 pm