Drew Carrey on Medical Marijuana
Ok, Drew Carrey isn’t actually *on* medical marijuana, but the episode would be interesting if he was.
I’ve always argued that we should never make something illegal when we can make its more ill effects illegal. For instance, we don’t have to make drinking illegal simply because drinking and driving is a terrible thing; we can make drinking and driving illegal itself.
However, when it comes to people smoking herb, the worst effect is that the level of negligence could increase in society. As an illustration, if I was walking down the street and a piano was about to fall on my head, I would rather have a drunk standing nearby than a stoner. The drunk would at least let out some slurred sound to warn me, whereas the stoner might just watch it fall before he realizes what happened. You can’t really legislate against that. Not like you can against drinking and driving. The logical extreme is that we would have to reconstruct expectations to accomodate a society that is constantly dumbfounded by its own shoelaces.
March 7th, 2008 at 3:53 am
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April 6th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Forgive ME, but more about the subject, please!! You are going away from the topic too frequently, therefore it is uneasy to read your posts.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:01 am
I disagree with you. Indeed, I?m not giving a ringing disagreement, but just sayin? what I think. I have my opinion, you have yours.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:54 am
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