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Old 11-11-2012, 08:20 PM   #29
Flint
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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45 View Post
LSD isn't addictive but there is too much we currently don't know about it to justify its legalization.
Conversely, I would argue that we didn't know enough about it to make it illegal in the first place--after all, it wasn't illegal when it was discovered.

And from what I understand, there were many likely beneficial effects of this compound being researched (with great promise) when it was made illegal. So if we "don't know enough about it" it's because it was made illegal.

I don't want to digress from the main subject here, into a more questionable landscape, but I do struggle with this particular argument.



Regarding the main point here, about marijuana use, I think the people (the people I know, anyway) are clear how they feel about this. I think we're waiting fore some dottering old hardliners, who believe the internet is a series of tubes, to (sorry to have to say this) die off. And leave the rest of us sensible folk the hell alone. To be clear here, I don't smoke. But if you do, I don't care if you do. I also don't care who you sleep with or if you have any religious leanings--these things are none of my business, and for goddamn sure none of the government's business.
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