Why is alcohol legalized?

[Shae]

Alcohol? Legal? I dunno.


All I know is that I can legaly drink in 2 months.

 

[MorteSubite]

Alcohol is legal because you can sneak it into your senate commitee meeting and consume it without anyones knowledge

Haha, I remember reading an article about that

It's part of our culture and it's not going to be rooted out. Not much more to it.

 

[Arnold]

I have to admit if they made alcohol illegal I think I would have to relocate to Mexico, I love beer, and my favorite is Corona!

 

[rainbowash]

i like alcohol, i love weed, hash; my personal favorite! i also like the occasional mushroom trip! Point is, it doesn't matter what the vice, if you're not an idiot and exceed what u can tolerate, there's no problem with any of them! Instead, some people abuse these things and screw the rest of us out of what could be a good and prosperous venture letting individuals decide their own fate! However, so far, there's just too many idiots for that type of progression right now so everything including your mouthwash should be inaccessible to the wrong people. As always the problem and the solution resides in the individual.

 

[WilliamB]

Alcohol is legal because you can sneak it into your senate commitee meeting and consume it without anyones knowledge, weed is easily detectable the second you spark up while someones in the middle of a filibuster.

HAHAHA in the middle of a filibuster very funny.

There is very limited reasons why marijuana should be illegal. I actually cant come up with one right now other than the cancer thing, but hell cigarettes are legal. However I can come up with why alcohol should be illegal, even though I love it. Alcohol causes: fights, rapes, accidents, death, unwated pregnacy, reckless behavior. When I am drunk and I mean REALLY drunk I will do ANYTHING. God for bid I get angry and get my hands on a firearm. Alcohol has caused me a LOT of problems. I have been in car accidents (not driving) leading to broken body parts, I have been into fights, I have lost friends I've done it all.

When I smoke marijuana I begin to think about whats wrong with my life. I start to realize my flaws I and after I come down I begin to work on them. Marijuana can be great for the mind to refocus though on a neglected area. Some ideas I have concieved after smoking I may never have though up without Marijuana. If Marijuana were legal people say people would start growing it. Well it is possible to make it illegal to grow marijuana. I believe it is illegal to grow tobacco. Alcohol is legal and you dont see ppl brewing their own poison in their basement around the block.

Alcohol is poison.

 

[joesmooth20]

You are without doubt one stupid fuckin idiot. You have no clue what your even talkin about. So your basically callin me a loser and including me in the same satement as welfare. (yea lets be an alcoholic.....thats alot cooler then just smokin weed) alcohol is only 30 times worse. Hate to break it to you but ill bet thetes a hell of alot more alcoholics in welfare line then pot smokers you fuckin dumb fuck.

try and get a good job when you smoke weed, you won't because you cannot
pass a piss test. I'm not saying being an alcoholic is better by any means. I
just know that give most people who use it a major lack of motivation and
they turnout to nothing with their lives. Also, it opens doors to much more
dangerous drugs "speaking from experience" I know what i'm talking about.
I started out just smoking weed then came acid, pills, ecstacy, cocaine,
meth, if I would have never smoked weed. I would have never done all that
shit. Once I quit. I got my life together and made something of myself.
I own my 2nd house, I go to college fulltime and work fulltime. I'm 22yrs old
and have done more with my life most everyone I know. That includes all
my friends who smoke weed.

My situation is not rare, most young people who start smoking that crap do
start on other drugs and end up dead, in jail, or just plain losers. So yes,
I do call them bums because more times than not THEY ARE! Your argument
points out a very very small % of people who do smoke and actually done
something with themselves. That situation is rare and you know it.

I'm not getting into a dick measureing contest with you but before you
say shit like you did. Get your facts straight and take a look at yourself
before you call someone a dumbfucking idiot.

hopefully this thread will be locked before you make more of an ass of yourself

 

[Maynard Keenan]

"Not all drugs are good, ok, some of them are great." Bill Hicks

Bill Hicks is the man.

 

[Maynard Keenan]

i like alcohol, i love weed, hash; my personal favorite! i also like the occasional mushroom trip! Point is, it doesn't matter what the vice, if you're not an idiot and exceed what u can tolerate, there's no problem with any of them! Instead, some people abuse these things and screw the rest of us out of what could be a good and prosperous venture letting individuals decide their own fate! However, so far, there's just too many idiots for that type of progression right now so everything including your mouthwash should be inaccessible to the wrong people. As always the problem and the solution resides in the individual.

Very well put..........tooshay, tooshay

 

[Maynard Keenan]

try and get a good job when you smoke weed, you won't because you cannot
pass a piss test. I'm not saying being an alcoholic is better by any means. I
just know that give most people who use it a major lack of motivation and
they turnout to nothing with their lives. Also, it opens doors to much more
dangerous drugs "speaking from experience" I know what i'm talking about.
I started out just smoking weed then came acid, pills, ecstacy, cocaine,
meth, if I would have never smoked weed. I would have never done all that
shit. Once I quit. I got my life together and made something of myself.
I own my 2nd house, I go to college fulltime and work fulltime. I'm 22yrs old
and have done more with my life most everyone I know. That includes all
my friends who smoke weed.

My situation is not rare, most young people who start smoking that crap do
start on other drugs and end up dead, in jail, or just plain losers. So yes,
I do call them bums because more times than not THEY ARE! Your argument
points out a very very small % of people who do smoke and actually done
something with themselves. That situation is rare and you know it.

I'm not getting into a dick measureing contest with you but before you
say shit like you did. Get your facts straight and take a look at yourself
before you call someone a dumbfucking idiot.

hopefully this thread will be locked before you make more of an ass of yourself

I made no ass of myself. I would have to say your thread was under fire not mine. And secondly you would have done coke, ecstacy, pills and all that shit if you never smoked weed. What an excuse that is. So if you never smoked a bone that first line laid out in front of you would not be snorted . Cmon thats bullshit. I also have never disliked a pot smoker before. Lot of alcoholics on the other hand.

 

[Eggs]

I also have never disliked a pot smoker before. Lot of alcoholics on the other hand.

Well thats nice.

 

[joesmooth20]

I made no ass of myself. I would have to say your thread was under fire not mine. And secondly you would have done coke, ecstacy, pills and all that shit if you never smoked weed. What an excuse that is. So if you never smoked a bone that first line laid out in front of you would not be snorted . Cmon thats bullshit. I also have never disliked a pot smoker before. Lot of alcoholics on the other hand.

Actually, I probably wouldn't have done all of that shit if i never started
smoking weed. It's no excuse man. I would have never been around anyone
like that if we all would have just drank instead of doing drugs in the first
place. Most peolpe go where there friends go. Drugs are not an exception
here. it's not a question of wilpower or any shit like that. All that shit seems
cool when your young and and you have no cares in the world. Your telling
me you have been smoking weed for all that time and never did other drugs?
that's pretty hard to believe.

how old are you and what do you do for a living???

 

[Maynard Keenan]

What can I say. Smoking weed motivates me. I love to work all day then hit the gym all while taking a few rips here and there. It helps me with my aches and pains as well. As well as stimulating my appetite. I have an excellent memory and im unbelievable with numbers and percentages. Its the individual not marijuana. Im 28 and I do remodeling. (taping,carpentry,floors,tiling,painting) I have a computer aided drafting degree as well.

 

[LW83]

I stumbled upon the answer today.


Political Partisan Propaganda

"Beer is proof that God loves us; and wants us to be happy"


-Ben Franklin

 

[Eggs]

Im 28 and I do remodeling. (taping,carpentry,floors,tiling,painting) I have a computer aided drafting degree as well.

Thats about right.

Anyways, I'm not quite sure what logic there is into allowing alcohol, besides that its something that has been around for a while and we all enjoy a drink now and then. I personally dont think that alcohol should be allowed any more than marijuana should, being that there are so many DUIs and people killed in accidents related to alcohol. Not to mention that all of my roomies drive drunk, as well as oh, around 99% of the college here.

I dont drink and drive, but I dont drink so much either. A glass of wine with dinner does me just right.

 

[naturaltan]

Thats about right.

Anyways, I'm not quite sure what logic there is into allowing alcohol, besides that its something that has been around for a while and we all enjoy a drink now and then. I personally dont think that alcohol should be allowed any more than marijuana should, being that there are so many DUIs and people killed in accidents related to alcohol. Not to mention that all of my roomies drive drunk, as well as oh, around 99% of the college here.

I dont drink and drive, but I dont drink so much either. A glass of wine with dinner does me just right.

We always take a cab when we go out. If we don't and drive wherever, we always take a cab home. It's only a $20 charge from anywhere in the city. It's a wonder that so many dumb asses like your roommates don't understand that. Anyone that comes out with us is either drinking pop or water, or handing the keys over to us and enjoying the evening however the choose to. It's very simple. We can't control everyone, but we'll damn sure make sure that those around us are not driving drunk!

 

[Flex]

Alchohol is legal b/c it's been accepted for SO long now and there is HUGE $ in it.

When in reality with all the bad things that it causes-car accidents, death, heart disease, liver failure, fights, depression, anxiety, family problems etc.- you'd think it wouldn't be legal.

But hey, ban steroids.

 

[Yanick]

try and get a good job when you smoke weed, you won't because you cannot
pass a piss test

i smoke pot and can pass a piss test no problem.

i'm gonna leave the whole 'gateway' drug thing alone...but i'd just like to say most kids drink/smoke cigarettes way before they try pot (i have no statistical evidence, this is how every last person i know started).

i also know dead beats who smoke pot, but that does not mean pot made them dead beats. you cannot isolate one thing in a person's life and say that thing caused him/her to end up where they are...its not crack i don't see people killing and/or robbing people so they can get money to score some pot

and i have to give a huge to whoever said that pot makes them realize lots of things about themselves. it may sound wierd but i've figured out more concepts and things about myself while staring at a wall high off my face than in any other situation.

 

[Flex]

I don't wanna get into an arguement, but IMO pot is 100% a gateway drug. I'll say this, then i'm gonna leave it alone...

If you smoke pot, of course you won't neccesarily do harder drugs.
BUT...of all the people who have ever done harder drugs, i can almost guarentee they've smoked pot.

 

[Yanick]

I don't wanna get into an arguement, but IMO pot is 100% a gateway drug. I'll say this, then i'm gonna leave it alone...

If you smoke pot, of course you won't neccesarily do harder drugs.
BUT...of all the people who have ever done harder drugs, i can almost guarentee they've smoked pot.

but of those people how many drank/smoked cigarettes before even trying pot?

i don't see why people think that just because something is legal its not a drug or its not unhealthy for you, laws are just that laws created by people just like you and me with their own biases and stupidity up the wazoo, nature on the other hand doesn't have that problem. nature doesn't care if alcohol is legal or not, you'll die just the same.

 

[Vieope]

Saying pot is the gateway to heavier drugs is not a very good argument.
Although pot is port without a r. Think about it.

 

[maniclion]

Caffeine is a gateway drug, people start drinking more and more and then they get nervous so they start smoking cigarrettes to calm the nerves and then they drink more and need sleep so to come down they gotta drink some vodka and then they get in a vicious cycle and round and round they go and then the barrels of coffee ain't cutting it so they snort coke and smoke joints and shoot up heroine until they shrivel into a ball of puss on the face of our planet and we stomp on them and they bust and leave a white spot on the mirror of our universe and look like a wet slimy star twinkling under the vanity lights.

 

[Vieope]

I want mushrooms.

 

[maniclion]

No you don't, but you do want the experience.

 

[Vieope]

Sure.

 

[WilliamB]

I own my 2nd house, I go to college fulltime and work fulltime. I'm 22yrs old
and have done more with my life most everyone I know. That includes all
my friends who smoke weed.

First off how are you going to buy two houses when your 22 years old and going to college full time? I am a full time college student and sometimes can't afford beer let alone a house! I suppose that these friends you have who smoke weed moved onto harder drugs like your generalizations have suggested? Are you sure your words have the truth behind them?

 

[perfecto]

thios is the dumbest shit ive ever heard. imagine a world without alcochol. what a shit world. half the population would still be virgins.

 

[perfecto]

oh and ppl who slang off weed and say that gets people onto harder drugs are just stupid and are products of what the media has fed them. talk to a couple of stoners and realise they hardly drink or take other drugs, all they do is watch tv, eat pizza and giggle alot.

weed shouldnt even be classified a drug. it grows naturally from the ground, unlike other chemicals out there.

offcourse if weed is abused heavily like anything else, it too will become a massive problem. but people shouldnt be retards and give up their day jobs just to punch 20 cones a day.

 

[Eggs]

thios is the dumbest shit ive ever heard. imagine a world without alcochol. what a shit world. half the population would still be virgins.

And you'd more than likely not be around. So alcohol has indeed been good to you.

As to things that grow naturally being classified as legal... its not the only thing considered illegal that grows naturally. However, being that 95% of the population is inherently stupid, there have to be some laws to keep them from eating off their arm while they suck down a hot dog.

 

[Vieope]

Marijuana is definitely not the best thing that comes from the earth. There are non synthesized drugs out there that makes you wooo hoo..
So I heard.

 

[perfecto]

And you'd more than likely not be around. So alcohol has indeed been good to you.

As to things that grow naturally being classified as legal... its not the only thing considered illegal that grows naturally. However, being that 95% of the population is inherently stupid, there have to be some laws to keep them from eating off their arm while they suck down a hot dog.

keep them from eating off their arm while they suck down a hot dog??

what the fuck are you talking about