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originally posted by: ketsuko
Does anyone recall the global happiness survey that was released where the happiest nations on earth were coincidentally also some of the poorest?
"So "Old world order" vs "New world order"
originally posted by: ketsuko
The UN is what happens when you think teaching parliamentary procedure to a bunch of totalitarian dictators will magically make them embrace the joys of individual freedom.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: beyondknowledge
Soma ... isn't that the push to legalize pot? Haven't you noticed that it has no downsides and cures everything.
People wonder why I am so skeptical of the drive to legalize it, and that's why. Nothing is so miraculous as they paint pot to be. Everything has its downsides. If for no other reason, look at how horrible it is to breathe any other fine particulate in the form of smoke. It's so bad the EPA was doing pollution studies on backyard BBQs to determine how bad they were for our lungs at one point.
But, you know, it's still fine to smoke pot.
All the arguments in its favor aside, that refusal to admit there could possibly be any downsides at all to it make me most skeptical about the push to legalize it.
But anyway, pot is the soma for the masses at this point.