Is there a place for the hopeful non-drinker, who has hurt all mankind, just to save, his own believin'?
Yeah, I remixed a lyric in One Love by Bob Marley to make a very important point.
There are very few things in the world that I'm consciously aware of that sicken me to the point where I use the word "sicken" to describe the feeling - but alcohol is one of them.
I feel I've experimented enough with ethanol to know how it affects me, and what pleasure I can derive from it. If I had to pick a spirit, I guess I'd have to say vodka is my drink of choice.
Most beer has gluten in it, and I avoid that crap as much as possible, but I have nothing against beer connoisseurs.
But you know what really grinds my gears?
When people are all like "oh man, we should totally get smashed together one more time before ____", as if alcohol is essential for human interaction.
It can be useful, but I get the feeling that SO many people rely on it to meet people/get comfortable with friends. It's really, really depressing (pun intended).
In my experience, alcohol almost always does more harm than good. So why is it even legal?
As most readers are aware, I smoke weed. Not habitually anymore, but I can easily say I've been psychologically addicted to weed in the past, and it took a lot of work to not crave a high. It's now my current theory that you learn more about coming off drugs (I consider modern weed to be a drug, but the 70s stuff, not so much...) than you do while on them, although you can learn a ton of things while high.
What am I getting at?
Well, I guess personally, I feel like people are WAY too judgmental about my choices in life. I've had plenty of people assume, straight up, that the only reason I land myself in mental hospitals is because I smoke weed. I won't deny that it may be a factor, but how on EARTH can you assume such things? How can you assume that weed is causing psychotic behaviour? Even if you try to look at it from a scientific perspective, the studies that link psychosis with weed intake never go as far as to imply a causal relationship. There's only a statistical correlation, which is almost meaningless as an argument.
And you know what I think?
If weed were completely legal (perhaps regulated similarly to alcohol), I think you'd find that the statistical correlation between psychotic tendencies and weed in the general population would completely disappear.
Always having to watch your back because you make a choice of what you wish to put into your body (remember, MY BODY; MY RULES) is not conducive to good health. In other words, the laws currently in place in Canada are landing people in mental hospitals/jails unnecessarily.
And the "Right Honourable" (rofl) Stephen Harper wants to toughen the laws? What. The. Fuck.
Food for thought.
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2 comments:
That man just doesn't want things to change, be it for the better or not, he's against change more than weed. No change, in fact, tougher punishments for anyone that wants change!
Ever notice that. It's been the same shit since he got in. No abortions! No weed! No freedom for the common man.
... so now we elected a populist government instead! Yeah!
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