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Buzz-a-licous

I'm only 16 right now, young to a lot of you. A majority of you have been smoking before my existence was even pondered by my parents. Though, no matter our age difference, we still have a similar futuristic hope, dream, vision, whatever you wish to call it. That one day, you can be out in the country somewhere. Your wife/or husband points out a strange plant while you're eating lunch in the springtime sun. You walk up to it, without fear. Without looking over your shoulder. As if it's a common wild flower. Even a rose. You pick a few of the tantalizing buds from the plant. Your children ask your spouse what their mommy/daddy are doing. And they explain to them what marijuana is. Your children don't get a look of shock on their face, as if one of their parents are doing something horrible. Half their life, they haven't been pumped full of lies that frighten them to the very bone. That simply scare them, Thinking horrible things. No worries of your family thinking low of you.

On your way home, you're caught up in how wonderful your family is, and you're speeding, and pulled over. The officer notices the dense vegetation sitting on the dash of your car. And you simply explain, "I found it on a picnic with my family" No handcuffs, no civil citations, no warrant, no worries. Life isn't dangerous, its harmonious.

The common dream we share, is decriminalization, or legalization. I know its a bit far fetched, but its how I see it in a way.

 

AYWMS NWIAm

i think thats a great picture of life, but for different reasons than you, i assume, from your writing. Could be from our meger five year age difference, but probably really isn't a big factor.

I know i used to think along those same lines, but now its different.(I won't go into it, since this is your post.) I think pot should be legal but not b/c i think people should use it. I guess a good analogy would be weather you need murder to be illegal for you to know you shouldn't kill people. Hopefully not.

well good picture of life anyways, but be open to change, as you probably already know.

Buzz-a-licous

Hey, in any thread I make, please don't hold opinions back.

That's not my whole point of view on it, its just wishful thinking. I don't want my kids knowing when they're 3 or 4 that I smoke pot. But if by some chance, they do, I don't want them telling there teachers, and freaking out because DARE told them it was bad, and that I need to be in jail.

CheebaMonkey

That's one of the worst analogies you could make.

Every now and then I see people who say something like, "well, if you're gonna legalize pot, why don't you legalize rape and murder while you're at it."

The difference between pot and rape/murder is that when someone is smoking pot in their home (or drinking beers, or smoking cigarettes) they are only harming themselves. When someone wants to go and rape/murder somebody, they have go to and find another person, usually someone completely innocent, and physically harm them. If someone rapes/murders somebody, usually the bulk of the harm goes on the victim, not the rapist/murderer.

The victim didn't get a choice to be raped/murdered.

We get a choice if we want to smoke pot.

Quite the difference.

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AYWMS NWIAm

Ahh, cheebamonkey....notorious for misunderstanding my analogies.
I’m going to re-explain this one to you though. Don’t take offense.

What I said had nothing to do with the differences between drugs and murder.
The key word there was NEED. Do you NEED murder to be illegal for you to know that you shouldn’t kill people. When you were a child did you need your parents (or whoever) to tell you killing people was wrong?? I hope not. It is just something understood, instinct, you could say. I really don’t know how you thought I said "well, if you're gonna legalize pot, why don't you legalize rape and murder while you're at it.”

I’m not relating POT and Murder. I did not ever say if you legalize pot why not legalize murder too. I understand the difference. I was relating 2 entirely different things.
The NEED for someone to tell me, I should or shouldn’t kill someone
and
The need for someone to me, I should or shouldn’t do drugs.

Both are things i don’t need people telling we right or wrong about.
All this is specially relating to Buzz-a-licous’s poem and his thoughts i assumed, on why pot should be legal. A think pot should be legal b/c it shouldn’t be illegal.

When you read things in the future try to understand your first impression might be wrong. Or that you didn’t understand what was said and ask questions instead of make outrageous statements that have nothing to do with what was said.


i still like the poem. paint a good pic of the future.

 

CheebaMonkey

Oops, my fault. I read the sentence wrong.



The sentence about rape/murder wasn't meant for you specifically. I mentioned that because I have actually seen people write this.

LOL, how can I be notorious for misunderstanding your analogies? This is the only one (that I misunderstood) I've commented on. (Your gun one didn't relate to regulation at all).

And yes, you do need murder to be illegal to know that you shouldn't kill. Some people out there still kill others for their own personal gain even though it's illegal. Some people don't consider murdering a bad thing to do, and if that wasn't illegal, there would be more killing.

caramelkisses

i really like what you wrote.........

AYWMS NWIAm

Cheeba
well quoting me and then saying what you said threw me a little, thought you stayed on the subject of my quote.
Possibly, i mispoke when i said analogies, i remeber you misinterpreting other threads i've written.
anyways
yes, if murder wasn't illegal there would be more of it. Which sucks b/c their are people out there who don't care about life.
everything you said about murder and life in your last paragraph is true. But is that the world that you wanna live in? i don't
Usually when i think/write about my beliefs, i think of how the world should be not how it is. So ideally, people shouldn't kill other people. No one ever had to tell me not to.

Buzz-a-licous

Honestly, I used to have the same view of weed, as I did herion. They were terrible, disgusting things. You know why? Elementary school, middle school, and high school. I had so many lies crammed into my head, that I truly believed it. Why would school lie to me?

I'm not saying I ever want my kids to know I smoke pot, I just don't want it to frighten them. I hate that so many people think of pot as a dangerous thing.

It got a good response, I may write more, I usually come up with these things when I'm relaxing when high.

AYWMS NWIAm

right on about all the bs we heard in school. i can't believe all the stuff i used to think about drugs! But some of it was ture and very helpful. Mainly about MJ being a gateway drug. It was a gateway drug for me. Pot isn't completly at fault but it was a major catalyst, absolutly
For too many people MJ is about getting F'd up and they ended up going down the wrong path. Whoever wrote their should be a class in school about it was right on. A sex and MJ class, they go go together, right? +)