Adolescent Effusive

Legalizing Pot

I have to add to Sarah's post about pot.
It seems that a lot of kids think that smoking cigarettes is worse for you than pot because pot isn't physically addictive. All right then. Let's just put aside the fact that you're still SMOKING SOMETHING! Honestly, how can you inhale smoke and not think you're damaging your body? Nevermind the fact that a joint has 4 times the amount of cancer-causing tar that cigarettes do.
You think people who smoke pot don't get lung cancer because you only hear about the cigarette smokers getting cancer. Do you really think the people who run our country want to make it so blatantly obvious that they can't control the traffic of illegal phsychotropic substances? Why would they just wave those statistics around like a banner? Hi, they don't want everyone to know that they can't control our nation's teenagers(not that other people don't do pot, but let's not lie to ourselves here).
Not only that, but smoking pot puts HOLES in your BRAIN. Your body's most vital organ? The one that controls your heart and lungs? Yea, that one.
The argument "People do it anyway, why not legalize it?" SUCKS. Okay, that is just rediculous. People commit fraud, homocide, and develop crack addictions even though its illegal. You know why the number one reason a lot of people don't do those things is? Aside from the obvious reasons not to: THEY DON'T WANT TO GET CAUGHT! Maybe they don't always get caught, but sometimes they do. And the fear of that one time when they'd get caught is the thing that keeps many people from doing drugs.
Pot IS psychologically addictive, kids. There's this line from the play that Alice's friend, Chris says.
"Control gets harder. I wonder sometimes. I always told myself I could get off drugs any time I want. I never tried to get off. I'm wondering if there might be a reason I haven't tried."
Previously they'd been talking about how they're on acid and speed and heroine and how all of their friends who are addicted started out on pot and got bored.
Also, the whole, "Well, it's legal in Canada!" thing is ridiculous. They also don't wrap their straws at McDonalds and let everyone touch everyone else's straw. They also can't afford to prosecute druggies because they pay for everyon's health care and have to make two signs for everything (one in French, one in English). Also, they're just poor in general compared to us. They have 70 cents on our dollar. They can't afford to keep pot illegal!
I suppose we really can't right now either with the war going on an everything, but what sense does it make to try and clean up another country (that we contributed largely to messing up, I concede) while we're letting all of the laws go in our own? I agree, we're not perfect. But we have to stay as good as we are in order to set a decent example for Iraq.
Thank you.

posted by M.Jazz @ 4:02 PM