probably not what they meant
There's this radio anti-drug PSA that I have heard a few times, most recently when I was looking for a parking space at Kroger a couple weeks ago. It is a narration asking parents to imagine their teenage children just a few years in the future when your son is "in his twenties, sitting on a couch, so stoned he can't even move. Don't you wish you could go back in time?"
And I thought to myself, "Oh god YES, I wish I could be in my twenties again, sitting on a couch, so stoned I can't move!" (Yes, I realize the point of the PSA was that the parents would wish they could go back in time to when their teens were ostensibly innocent. But since they were imagining a possible future event, not yet having taken place, they don't need to go back in time. All they need to do is talk to their kids! Whew! Everything is going to be alright! Yay!)
But really, what the fuck is all this about being so high you can't move? We're talking about pot right, not heroin? I can speak with some authority on this matter that one of pot's effects is not to cause temporary paralysis. True, you can get so high that you will fall asleep, or "pass out." Alcohol produces the same effect if consumed in sufficient quantity. To be fair, if you get good and stoned you may not *want* to move, but that's different. I've never seen anyone UNABLE to move. Even if someone is passed out, they are still able to move, i.e. they are not paralyzed. Using the same reasoning we are all "unable to move" when we are sitting on the couch comfortably and don't feel like getting up, or we are "unable to move" when we are asleep. Why do all these anti-drug propagandists have to lie so frequently?
While I'm on the subject, there was a recent Shepherd Express article about medical marijuana in Wisconsin (nice cover by the way.) Apparently eighty percent of Wisconsonites are in favor of medical marijuana according to a recent poll. What I am curious about is how many of them are in favor of legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes. (Presumably those not in favor of medical would also not support the recreational.) I mean, I'm all in favor of medical marijuana, but what I really want is for it to be legal for those of us who don't have (yet) a serious disease that it can be used to treat. I think that's also something that most people who support medical marijuana would want too but are afraid to say in a public forum. No matter though, I'm pretty sure that we are on a slow slide to legalization for medical marijuana which in turn will eventually at least decriminalize the weed for the rest of is if not all out legalize it. It's just a question of time.
FYI, in case someone reading this who doesn't know me just thinks I'm some kind of stoner, well, I used to be. I haven't smoked grass in years. I still believe it should be legal though. And completely unrelated to the PSA, the article I linked, and everything else in this post, I would like to have the opportunity to smoke just a little bit once again, without making it a habit of course. I will probably not wait, for obvious reasons, until any such decriminalization or legalization to take said opportunity.
And I thought to myself, "Oh god YES, I wish I could be in my twenties again, sitting on a couch, so stoned I can't move!" (Yes, I realize the point of the PSA was that the parents would wish they could go back in time to when their teens were ostensibly innocent. But since they were imagining a possible future event, not yet having taken place, they don't need to go back in time. All they need to do is talk to their kids! Whew! Everything is going to be alright! Yay!)
But really, what the fuck is all this about being so high you can't move? We're talking about pot right, not heroin? I can speak with some authority on this matter that one of pot's effects is not to cause temporary paralysis. True, you can get so high that you will fall asleep, or "pass out." Alcohol produces the same effect if consumed in sufficient quantity. To be fair, if you get good and stoned you may not *want* to move, but that's different. I've never seen anyone UNABLE to move. Even if someone is passed out, they are still able to move, i.e. they are not paralyzed. Using the same reasoning we are all "unable to move" when we are sitting on the couch comfortably and don't feel like getting up, or we are "unable to move" when we are asleep. Why do all these anti-drug propagandists have to lie so frequently?
While I'm on the subject, there was a recent Shepherd Express article about medical marijuana in Wisconsin (nice cover by the way.) Apparently eighty percent of Wisconsonites are in favor of medical marijuana according to a recent poll. What I am curious about is how many of them are in favor of legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes. (Presumably those not in favor of medical would also not support the recreational.) I mean, I'm all in favor of medical marijuana, but what I really want is for it to be legal for those of us who don't have (yet) a serious disease that it can be used to treat. I think that's also something that most people who support medical marijuana would want too but are afraid to say in a public forum. No matter though, I'm pretty sure that we are on a slow slide to legalization for medical marijuana which in turn will eventually at least decriminalize the weed for the rest of is if not all out legalize it. It's just a question of time.
FYI, in case someone reading this who doesn't know me just thinks I'm some kind of stoner, well, I used to be. I haven't smoked grass in years. I still believe it should be legal though. And completely unrelated to the PSA, the article I linked, and everything else in this post, I would like to have the opportunity to smoke just a little bit once again, without making it a habit of course. I will probably not wait, for obvious reasons, until any such decriminalization or legalization to take said opportunity.
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