actually I agree with Bill Maher on this one..........marijuana does very little harm to the body. Certainly a lot less than alcohol!! Personally, I think the public would be much better off if alcohol were illegal.
I smoked pot for many years as a young person. The only reason why I quit was because a couple of Texas cops did an illegal search of my car and found it in my car. I was able to escape charges but it cost me a lot of money for legal representation. After that, the prospect of facing jail seemed more real to me and I just didn't think the risk was worth it. After having been a drinker also for many years, I also managed to give that up too. But II can tell you that having to quit both, it was much, much easier to quit pot! I had no addiction withdrawal symptoms with pot and was able to quit immediately! With alcohol, it took me several times before I was able to finally quit. And ultimately, the real reason that motivated me to quit drinking was because I had broken several bones and the doctors told me my bones would not heal as long as I was still drinking. Plus, if a person gets high, the effect only lasts a short time. If a person gets drunk, they will stay drunk for a long time! People also have more control when they're high vs when they're drunk. People who are high are able to drive, people who are drunk (very often) are not able to drive without killing themselves and others. Bill, I'm sorry your family had negative effects on pot but I would say those effects are not normal. Are you sure they were only using pot and not some other drug along with it? Or it could be the pot had been laced with some other drug before they got it. I've known many, many people in my life who have smoked pot and I have never heard of anyone who had negative effects from smoking only pot. I have heard of some people who just didn't care for it but no one who experienced negative physical effects from smoking it. About Sally's original question, if they prosecuted Phelps they would have to prosecute everyone else at that party and that would be a huge expense to the taxpayers! But then again, that hasn't stopped them from prosecuting people before! Tommy Chong is an excellent example of that!! He was busted for selling pipes and bongs to people on the internet in 2003!! So while terrorism was emerging as a major threat to this country, they thought it was important enough to bust Tommy Chong for selling a few bongs? In 2003, Chong was targeted by two American investigations code-named Operation Pipe Dreams and Operation Headhunter, which sought out businesses selling drug paraphernalia, mostly water pipes. Operation Pipe Dream was run from Pittsburgh, PA. US Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan oversaw the case. The estimated cost of Operation Pipe Dream was over $12 Million and included the resources of 2,000 law enforcement officers. Chong was charged for his part in financing and promoting Chong Glass/Nice Dreams, a company started by his son Paris. Chong's case never went to trial; instead Chong accepted a plea agreement with the United States Attorney's Office in which he admitted to distributing 7,500 bongs and water pipes on the Internet through Nice Dreams, a family company that was named for one of his movies. Chong agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute drug paraphernalia in exchange for non-prosecution of his wife, Shelby, and his son, Paris. ----- Original Message ----- From: DUG Nunya-Bidness To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 2:37 PM Subject: {Dawgs/Dittos} Re: Michael Phelps Some people can't drink alcohol either, alcohol is no longer prohibited. Peanuts can be deadly to some. It's (or rather should be) up to the individual to know if an item does them more harm than good. IMPO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Bill aka LeFantome <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 12:32:49 PM Subject: {Dawgs/Dittos} Re: Michael Phelps with apologies to Bill Maher on reflection I think not on this question. The effects I have observed in one of my daughters and one grandson have not been good. Even though I used in the 60's to a tiny bit I can't trust my results to the general population. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Brenda Crowder Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 1:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: {Dawgs/Dittos} Re: Michael Phelps Let's just legalise pot. --- On Sat, 2/14/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: {Dawgs/Dittos} Michael Phelps To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 8:49 AM Well, what does everyone think about this...People are calling for him to be prosecuted and sent to jail! Yes, he broke NC law...and so did everyone else at the party...so if you prosecute him, all of them should be prosecuted......and I understand it was a very large party....I'd say there may have been underage drinking too so let's prosecute those too....and I bet some were on prescription drugs, let's get them too....might have been some fornicating going on too...NC has archaic laws and I bet they could get them too... Let's see if there were 200 at the party...that's 200 court appointed lawyers and a couple of years for the trials...and appeals etc....is that how NC really wants to spend it's money?? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WebTV Dawgs/Dittos" group. 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