Look, I smoke pot. I do it because I’m bored, and honestly, because I have nothing better to do. I KNOW it’s bad for me, I’ve read up on the REAL facts. But I still do it anyway, and I definitely don’t do it for the health benefits. Don’t be such a prick about marijuana, you give us pot-heads a bad name.

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http://forum.grasscity.com/medical-marijuana/645925-grannys-mmj-list-july-2010-a.html

Like:

Abstract:
“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia.”

Or maybe not…

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Endocannabinoids

Christian Extremism and Terrorism In History

Chemurgy

Blasphemy

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But I’ll do more then that and I’ll be honest. I’ve also experienced those types of anecdotes. Except in my world there was no drug involved, unless you count booze. I sure as hell do.

Human nature, that’s what you saw and experienced. I’m so sorry that you’ve been surrounded by so many who let themselves go, who just gave up. I’m sorry for you and I’m sorry for them. What you’ve seen is what many of us have seen, and you’re right, it needs to be confronted in our movement. Not because our movement is special or that so many people are addicted to their weed.

No, what’s happening is that there’s a growing underclass of the hopeless, of the lost. Empty people without dreams, without goals, without grounding. This isn’t a new state of things but looking around it seems like it’s getting worse. And it’s not because some find it easier to escape into a haze of their choice.

I can’t help but notice that in your anecdotes you described greed, avarice, sloth and gluttony. Across time and culture they have been called “deadly” sins for a reason.

They suck the life force right out of you. But what happens when you live in a system that functions to reward these sins?

Well, with that spark of life gone, (barring true addiction) the drug is an excuse, an easy scapegoat to lay the blame on as we shuffle our way through relatively useless lives in a culture that exalts “measurable productivity” above other values and our souls. As we age and as we get closer to death we then have something we think is tangible to hold up as the reason for our failures. Failures that are real, perceived or simply and (always) helpfully pointed out by others.

But you know what’s really tangible? Prohibition. The criminalization of personal vices and choices. The war on people and poverty. Those are tangibles that have been shown to be society as well as life destroying. It’s a destruction thrust upon everyone, not just those who consume a drug. Addict or not.

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