Pleasant Politics

Condemning a pattern of sloppy argument is what I told you I'm doing and I plainly am doing. All your comments here are relevant. That's what makes it a pattern.

You're saying marijuana must be worse than alcohol. You don't have to make up that I've accused you of calling alcohol harmless or whatever. Your reasons for declaring marijuana "more potent" are nonsense. The context of your reasons - like saying verbatim "the private prison system is abusive, but if it were as bad as you say they would be arresting people from jaywalking" - is just plain horseshit. 'Things can't be this bad unless they're worse' is not an argument. There was in fact a deliberate effort by assholes in power, to make marijuana illegal, despite a lack of any scientific or medical evidence. Insisting it cannot be so, because surely the government has good reasons, and we're just waiting on "an objective perspective" to finally undo this injustice - is several fallacies at once. You can't or won't deal with the possibility the status quo is simply wrong, and has been since before you were born. Like the fact it's not already legal must mean its criminalization remains legitimate and rational... because we live in the best of all possible worlds.

Even glibly using the word "addictive" is misleading bordering dishonest. Pot has no withdrawal symptoms. It's less physiologically addictive than caffeine or sugar, and yes, I saw where you already mentioned caffeine. I note that you're not hemming and hawing about whether caffeine should be illegal. Just whether you, personally, might perchance consider cessation. I also note that all your chin-stroking about known risks does not include the psychological impacts of going to prison. Because whatever the hell you imagine the somehow-still-ambiguous impact is, for this recreational drug that's already omnifuckingpresent, it seems flatly impossible to argue that what we're doing is better for users and for society.

Which is why you haven't.

You've only mused about vague negatives, and spread uncertainty, and accused everyone else of being quite rude for pointing out that's shite behavior. 'But what if you're supposed to feel bad right now? And if you're feeling good, that's also bad, because you might use it when you don't! It'll surely be more potent than alcohol, a drug that can kill you if you do too much, or stop doing too much.'

You underline this shite behavior by reading my aura through the screen and projecting wild mood swings. I have negative respect for tone policing. It's an abuse tactic. Be better or stop talking.