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I may be the only non marijuana user in this thread, and I may be razzing you guys a little bit. . . but one thing that concerns me is public consumption. I don't really like public alcohol intoxication, and I don't think I'd really like people being stoned in public either. Fuck even when I go to bars to drink I prefer not to be around drunk people. Although sometimes they can be rather entertaining.
I'm one of those uptight assholes that has applauded smoking bans. Though I can't stand smoke. Before PA had the ban, if I was at a show I'd regularly have to step outside for air.
Whatever people do in the privacy of their own homes or in the appropriate public places is fine with me.
One other thing- I hate how some people seem to have to be high or drunk to cut loose. It really bugs me how stuffy people can be until they take something. Or how people only think that their mind is capable of brilliance when intoxicated in someway.
I'm not opposed to people taking drugs or getting drunk, I just personally don't feel the need, and I feel that it definitely isn't for everyone. Regardless of health effects, some people develop unhealthy obsessions/addictions.
I say this coming from the viewpoint of someone who has a brother who is bipolar and has addiction problems. He's not just a pothead, he does a bunch of other shit too, but I feel in a certain way that him starting out as a pothead opened up this idea to him that the world is simply better in an altered state.
I'm sure most of you aren't like that, and I realize that people like my brother will obtain whatever drugs they like regardless of legality.
I'd like to think most (or at least many) people are able to make mature decisions. I could get sloshed every night on cheap box wine but I don't.
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