Americans are strange
Okay, second time you've said this so I'll ask.
What?
The post you quoted, is, insane.
Vox wrote a piece about gamergate, well really it was actually about how American politics have gotten more and more extreme when before both parties where fairly down the middle with elements of one side or the other. It also showed and talked about how (in this case) gamergate was being used as a political rallying point for one extreme point of view or another, and the "your with us or against us" mentality, which the post you quoted above essentially was.
I don't understand how posts like that are helpful or meaningful and when ever anyone has an opposing view or just a different opinion (me in this case but I've seen it with a bunch of other posts on here and other forums recently) people ignore your points, say your wrong with zero logic or reasoning (other than, your wrong) and then some sort of insane political rallying cry.
6-7 Years ago I used to look at America like a country slowly moving towards a more enlightened, and honestly more European political country. But if anything, it's gotten more and more alien to me as the years have gone on. Maybe it's just me, maybe it isn't I don't know... but all I know is what I reading makes me thing... America(ns) are strange lol
As much as i hate to admit it (which is admittedly less than i hate to be physically surrounded by it), America is full of dangerously insane, misguided, and/or malicious, "herd minded" ..."individuals."
But let's be real here: the issue is not whether or not cannabis is good or bad for a person, but whether a militarized government entity, who also threatens violence and asset seizure for those who refuse to pay taxes, which contribute to perpetuating systems and agencies which 1) are abusing their power, or claiming degrees of authority to which they are not intended to have, and, 2) are arbitrarily imposing violence upon people who are not doing anything to justify intervention.
The issue is: people are being unjustly and significantly deprived, for insufficient reason, and by other individuals participating in the violent oppression, due to either sheer idiocy, or due to lifelong indoctrination, based on unsubstantiated, false, irrational and untenable beliefs. They are essentially basing their "law" on a prejudice which is, itself, based on prejudice. The whole thing is so disgusting because it's circular reasoning: they simply arbitrarily decided it was "bad," and then that somehow made it okay to enact unjustifiable violence upon any and everyone who may interact with cannabis.
It's completely ridiculous, if not maniacally sinister. I don't think it's possible for people capable of attending such high positions, to be unaware of their own crimes, including accepting compensation for unjustly depriving another, who has been arbitrarily deemed "criminal," just because that person enjoys the company of a particular plant.
If a person is doing something to endanger others, sure, intervene.
But when a person is doing nothing to endanger or harm or deprive another, and is not *significantly harming themselves, in pursuit of what they find enjoyable and/or medicinally useful, and/or therapeutic... It's their body, and their choice, and not anyone's place to intervene or interfere, with that person's quest for personal fulfillment, BECAUSE, they are consciously considerate of the potential for their own actions to impact others, and duly maintain sufficient control of themselves, to not cause anyone else any problems, in the process of pursuing their own happiness.
So, surely, their counter-argument must be something related to "...everyone is incapable of sufficient self-governance, so they need a 'state' to save them from not only each other, but even from themselves!" Which i find absurd... yet is at least partially justified, because hey, lots of people do lots of stupid things, and i think it's usually good to stop as many of those things from happening, as possible... but i don't think cannabis is one of those things, and i don't think anyone but the most intellectually dishonest, would ever have any motivation to attempt to show correlation between cannabis and stupid people doing stupid things. And you know what? Even if stupid people do more stupid things "on weed..." that doesn't mean everyone else does.
i'd rather live in fear of an accident with a stupid person, than in fear of the _intent_ of groups of violent persons being paid to deprive me, arbitrarily, and without remorse.
I can usually avoid unwanted encounters with "stupid persons," by simply not doing stupid things myself, and/or not being in places where i think stupid people would be doing stupid things (or where violent people will do violent things, etc). But at least that stupid person isn't "out to get me," crazed by "bust lust," frothing at the mouth, hoping to unjustly deprive yet another person, to get that bonus, and all that recognition... to get some "title..." to be "respected."
Anyway, TL;DR: crazy, stupid, and/or malicious people, need to cease and desist, and relax, and stop doing things to ruin other people's lives.
