What if Alcohol was Made Illegal?

<p>What would you do if the government, on a state or federal level made alcohol illegal? You would protest and fight until it was legal again. Why would the government get to decide what I, a 21 year old person, get to ingest? Why do they get to tell me that I cannot drink alcohol?</p>
<p>Now, alcohol is a drug. It effects people's state of mind. When people foolishly decide to drive under its effects, it often causes accidents, sometimes leading to death of both parties. Alcohol is a depressant. It causes people to be numb to the world, and exasperates many people's already difficult depression. It also has many recorded instances of dependence. So much so that many families have been ruined, and other negative effects have come from it. Not to mention that detoxing from alcohol can lead to seizures, brain damage, and in some cases, death.</p>
<p>Step back. </p>
<p>Marijuana is a drug. It has many proven medical uses (numerous of which have been proven by research funded by our federal government, findings that our government does not want you to know about). Marijuana has no proven negative side effects: it befuddles the mind, and relaxes the body.

Marijuana has no lethal dose.

Marijuana does not encourage, or cause crime or violence.

Marijuana is a street drug, funding the Mexican cartels, other gangs and drug dealers. Marijuana prohibition has been going on for nearly 80 years, and marijuana on the streets has been easier to come by than alcohol.

Marijuana prohibition costs tax payers money, and fuels gangs and drug dealers. It has failed.

Legalize, regulate and tax in order to get it off the streets and have it benefit America instead of hurt America.

Think about it,

-Evan

Federal Government Uses Tax Dollars to Destroy the Jobs of Law-Abiding Citizens.

In California, there are medical marijuana dispensaries that are being shut down by the Federal Government. This is infuriating and scary because the issue of medical marijuana is supposed to be a state issue. Not only is the federal government micro-managing on inappropriate levels, but it is using tax dollars to destroy jobs. Let your voice be heard. Marijuana prohibition has failed. Decriminalize, legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana on a state level.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/us/hundreds-of-california-medical-marijuana-shops-close.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www

Perfection

Perfection is not clean or easy. Perfection is not light or whimsical. Perfection is heavy and potent. It is dirty and difficult.

Perfection is progress; arrival is defeat.

Progress is cyclical. It moves upwards, forwards, down, and backwards. There is life that creates death, and death that creates life.

The hero isn't the one that wins, the hero is the one that lives.

Marijuana prohibition does not work.

Great article on the failed marihuana prohibition, and why it is better for marijuana (like alcohol) to be legal and regulated:

Editorial: Approve Initiative 502 — It’s time to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana | Editorials | The Seattle Times

The Facts... bro

Ok, so this eats me. People are closed minded, stubborn, and ignorant. People form ideas, and then cement them in as if any falsity of the idea would destroy everything they believed in. Here is the truth: an idea that does not hold up under fire is flawed. Here is another one: you cannot understand any idea in its entirety.

I'll start with the latter.

Gravity. It pulls us down (or pushes?). How?... oh.

"I know one thing, that I know nothing"

Signs lead us to believe that the universe is constantly expanding. Research finds things that are smaller and smaller. I'm not even sure what the smallest particle is anymore.

The universe was created by an explosion. Then it evolved over billions of years. Or was it God? And in that scenario, did it happen in just one week or over billions of years?

Democrats are wrong.

Republicans are wrong.

The universe is filled with contradictions because we cannot possibly understand indefinitely. There is too much information to behold. I trust that we may never understand it all.

An idea that does not hold up under fire is flawed. I believe that to be true... care to prove me wrong? The unfortunate thing is that my idea might be flawed. Of course, it will only ever be a theory because it is impossible to prove it.

The scientific process begins with a hypothesis... a guess. Then it tests the guess. If the guess passes the test we have a theory. Then someone else comes along and tests the theory under different circumstances. If the theory does not hold up it is flawed, and must be altered or thrown out entirely.

Philosophy works much in the same way.

If you have a theory that you are afraid to put under fire, then ask yourself what you are afraid of. If you are afraid of being wrong then you better damn well put your theory under fire, because if you are wrong then you are believing in a lie. How many other people will you spread your lie to? Who will you hurt? Who will you take advantage of?

Here's what it comes down to. Stop believing everything with an iron grip. Hold your mind with an open palm. Let yourself evolve. Stop telling one sided stories. Stop pretending that you are right, and start believing that WE are flawed. When someone disagrees with you don't write them off.

Listen when someone talks; ask when you don't know; try to see it from their point of view. Do all of this as one who only knows one half of the story.

This is a plea from the depths of my soul.

-Ben