[DragoonKain]

I question whether you've actually done ANY research on this topic nk9. If you look at research that our OWN government has done on the effects of marijuana, then you would know that marijuana has FAR fewer health defects than alchohol (even alchohol at moderate amounts). I won't even go into the positive effects of marijuana (latest government studies claim that marijuana may actually prevent cancer, shrink cancer, and/or relieve pain from cancer that many medicines cannot do.) <--- okay so I did...

Also, is the job of the government to make sure that its citizens are doing exactly what the government wants? Karl Marx thought so. I'm in the school of thought that government should do ONLY what is necessary to maintain capable social order, and leave choice decisions up to its people.

"Well, I totally disagree. If you need to use drugs every now and then because you "like it", then you obviously have a serious addiction."

Do you know what addiction is? Addiction is when your body physically cannot tolerate living without a substance. If you stopped taking said substance, your body would actually become sick before returning to its usual biological foundation. You sometimes like playing video games for fun, so are you seriously addicted? I doubt it.

You pick on a lot of drugs in your little diatribe there. Smoking? Smoking doesn't have that many bad effects until old age. And really, once you reach 75-80 years old, who really cares? LSD and Cocaine both have VERY mild health effects (in fact, LSD has virtually none aside from some people getting flashbacks). (Now heroin, ecstacy... VERY VERY BAD. Anybody who does those is just asking for trouble.)

"People with addictions to tobacco or any other drug, get a freaking life. They just depend on a drug to solve their problems, instead of solving it them selves."

Sometimes it's not about solving the problem. Sometimes it's just about living in the now. If you've got problems and don't necessarily have the time to work through them, or are somehow incapable of getting through them, then it's your own business if you want to 'escape' for a while. It's not pathetic. You're pathetic for passing judgment on those people so harshly. Think about it. Even if you're not the kind of person who would ever do that sort of thing, would you want somebody calling you pathetic if you were just trying to get through life the only way you knew how?

Again, I'm not a drug user, but I do take enjoyment out of defending it, so keep it coming.