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or any sensible leaders for that matter.
Sports are a culture's way of getting at 5 or 6 great men... and then assuring that their greatness remains petty.
by zarahoopstra on Jan 17, 2012 3:12 PM CST up reply actions
Oh, no. Are we doing this again?
Let’s just agree that most people in our generation would not have a problem with pot being legalized.
It’s still news as he might be affecting his draft day payday.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
by Slice of Life on Jan 17, 2012 3:14 PM CST up reply actions
Hell
most people of previous generations had no problem with it being legalized.
Not very smart of Dre regardless. Got the double whammy of bad news, saw this about Dre then read that Victor Martinez might be out for the season with a torn ACL..I feel like a LSU fan right now.
Believe it or not
my kid has played video games at Victor’s house.
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
I would disagree that most people
have no problem with it being legalized. You can make polls come out how you wish by the way you ask the question but even the liberal polls are not conclusive.
And fill in this blank. If pot is never legalized that ruins the world because _______________.
I’ve just buried too many teens who thought it was no big deal and pot contributed. Well being dead is a big deal.
And thankfully Ron Paul will never be president.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
by 5026 on Jan 17, 2012 8:15 PM CST up reply actions 4 recs
Ima rec this right here^^^^
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 17, 2012 8:17 PM CST up reply actions
And what about all the lives ruined by the "war on drugs"
Alcohol kills so many more people than weed ever has.
"Those are just facts and facts are just opinions and opinions can be wrong"
-Veronica, Better Off Ted
by Zoltar on Jan 17, 2012 10:06 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Hey, I hate, I really hate people who drink and drive
or drink and hit their kids or their wife or even their dog.
I did one of my best friends funerals due to a drunk driver. How easy do you think it was to talk with his mom the day he was killed?
But just because alcohol kills people does not mean it is ok to use marijuana. That is like saying just because Auburn is in the SEC we should root for them when they play out of conference.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
Agreed...
…alcohol should be illegal, too….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 18, 2012 8:28 AM CST up reply actions
If marijuana has a much smaller negative effect than alcohol
and alcohol is legal, then it seems like a pretty good argument that marijuana should be legal too. We should at least be consistent, no?
As far as being a gateway drug, I think a lot of that is due to it being illegal. People get used to “breaking the law” to acquire and use weed. It makes crossing that line to harder drugs easier.
"Those are just facts and facts are just opinions and opinions can be wrong"
-Veronica, Better Off Ted
Why doesn't it prove just the opposite?
If marijuana has a much smaller negative effect than alcohol, and alcohol is legal, why shouldn’t alcohol be made illegal? I’m not taking a side on the legalization issue because I honestly don’t know if there’s a good solution either way, and I’m not pushing for alcohol to be made illegal either, but the whole “alcohol is worse than pot” argument is one of the weakest arguments in favor of pot out there. It is much more an indictment of alcohol than anything else.
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Jan 18, 2012 12:29 PM CST up reply actions
Well, it proves that our drug laws are retarded.
You’re right that whether they should both be illegal or should both be legal is another argument.
"Those are just facts and facts are just opinions and opinions can be wrong"
-Veronica, Better Off Ted
Why doesn’t it prove just the opposite?
Because we already tried that? And because Johnny Walker tastes good?
God bless our Dark Lord.
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 18, 2012 10:00 PM CST up reply actions
Well, like I said,
I’m not sure the answer to the problem is either legalization or illegalization (is that a word?). A great deal of it comes down to personal decisions. I just think as an argument the “well, but, alcohol is legal” mantra is a bit weak. It’s kind of like saying that more people die in auto accidents than from heroin overdoses in the US every year, and cars are legal, so l should be able to use heroin. All that proves is that we need to do something about vehicle/road safety – it says very little about the pros or cons of heroin.
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Jan 19, 2012 10:43 AM CST up reply actions
Even without comparing it to alcohol, the point is made
I just can’t understand anyone making an argument that our “war on drugs” isn’t severely flawed— especially at the level of marijuana. We need better education on things like incarceration rates, tax expenditures, social and economic effects of drug charges, and the ineffectiveness of programs like DARE.
I usually walk away from specious reasoning on blogs but this sentence is eating at me:
Fill in the blank: “If pot is never legalized that ruins the world because _”
I would like to see this being affirmed substituting “pot” with ANYTHING. Nothing being legalized or prohibited ruins the world. But that does little to refute that basic freedoms are unnecessarily lost when we fail to actually assert a logical standard for prohibiting them. And what kind of rationale is that for a costly policy that allows government to interfere with personal liberty?
Perhaps it should actually read: “Fill in the blank: If the bill of rights in never legalized that ruins the world because _”. Clearly the world is not ruined even in this case but at least we have something a little more philosophically accurate as it relates to the sentiments taken up by such a position.
It’s such a bizarre mindset to excuse alcohol and not something far less damaging, I just don’t get it. We should be bothered by, if anything, the obvious contradictions embedded in such an arbitrary law.
Sports are a culture's way of getting at 5 or 6 great men... and then assuring that their greatness remains petty.
by zarahoopstra on Jan 18, 2012 3:25 AM CST up reply actions 2 recs
Personally, I'm not too thrilled about the effects of alcohol.
The difference being that alcohol is a staple of human society and has been for thousands of years. It won’t ever be eliminated. Recreational drugs are not a staple of human society. And I would take exception with the idea that they are less damaging.
The legalization of alcohol is not a justification for the legalization of other harmful substances anymore than the legalization of mining is a justification for withdrawing all environmental regulations anywhere and everywhere else.
I sympathize with the idea that the government has no right to tell a person what they should do behind closed doors, but there are exceptions to almost every rule. “I don’t like absolutes,” is a phrase that comes to mind.
No matter how you count 'em, we've got more --- Roll Tide!
″I don’t like absolutes″ is an absolute.
Alcohol in small amounts can bd good for the heart and serum cholesterol.
"The same things win today that have always won, and they will win years from now. The only difference is the losers have a whole new bunch of excuses why they don’t win or can’t win."-Bear Bryant
(12-4)+2=12 hoping for a +1
Robot Chicken Star Wars should be canon.
by the thin red line on Jan 18, 2012 6:57 AM CST up reply actions
Recreational drugs are not a staple of human
society
The drugs that didn’t make the cut were not a staple of ANGLO SAXON society.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
by Slice of Life on Jan 18, 2012 8:23 AM CST up reply actions
Z, all I was trying
to say is that some people think that we can make the world a better place if we legalize pot. I suspect the reason they feel that way is because they are doing pot…thus they can not really be objective.
We don’t know what legalizing pot will do in America. If been to Amsterdam and sorry I’m not impressed with the kind of society they have created.
There are a lot of major problems in the world, and major problems here in America. Start with poverty. Does anyone think legalizing pot will help that situation? I think it would hurt. Just let all the kids in the hood get stoned everyday and see how much they study or find a job. Take crime. Yeah no one would be breaking the law doing pot, but unless we just hand it out for free people are going to need money to buy it. The poor will have to steal to buy it.
But really I guess it is more personal with me. I have worked with teenagers for 40 years. I guess I don’t know the right kids but I don’t know one kid, of the literally thousands I have known, whose life was better off because he or she was smoking marijuana. However, I have done the funerals of kids who are dead because of both marijuana and alcohol. Either they were high/drunk and crashed themselves to death or even worse they were sober and were killed by a drunk or high driver.
If you ever had to do someones funeral who was a kid and a friend of yours who was innocent and whose life was stolen away by someone on alcohol, pot, or other drugs maybe, just maybe, you’d realize that you’d trade in a bit of your precious freedom to do drugs if it could mean that that would never happen to a kid you knew again. And, if that kid was your own kid you would give anything, all your freedom, all your liberal views, just to have your kid back for one day.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
I don't want my tax dollars used to arrest, prosecute, and lock up people just because of weed.
And no, I’ve never used it.
God bless our Dark Lord.
Dumbass.
Just cost himself some serious cash.
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
dangit dre
This is aggravating. So much potential fallout over something so friggen stupid. Hope this cares him straight. Hes too good to let something like pot dictate his future.
need to keep the cornerbacks of the sec away from the reefer!
by lastmilefire on Jan 17, 2012 3:20 PM CST via mobile reply actions
I say, light it up! Enjoy that championship.
Still gonna be making millions!
"Those are just facts and facts are just opinions and opinions can be wrong"
-Veronica, Better Off Ted
todd should rec this
As he is a strong advocate of this dr pepper commercial. Ive actually been called racist by him for not enjoying it lol
by lastmilefire on Jan 17, 2012 3:57 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Damned if I cant
get away from the racist hashtag !!
ha
by lastmilefire on Jan 17, 2012 7:08 PM CST up reply actions
My kid loves that ad...
…which kinda makes me love it even though it’s kinda cheesy and all….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 17, 2012 8:19 PM CST up reply actions
It just makes me
want to stab my ears with nails to make the sound just stop
by lastmilefire on Jan 17, 2012 9:47 PM CST up reply actions
I just love the fact that it was made...
And that it has opened the doors for so many wisecracks.
No matter how you count 'em, we've got more --- Roll Tide!
Here's why I like it: it will forever be linked to our championship in my mind.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
by Slice of Life on Jan 18, 2012 8:24 AM CST up reply actions
Let's...
…have a real good time….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 18, 2012 8:29 AM CST up reply actions
...that and the EDSBS parody "Let's have a field goal try"
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
by Slice of Life on Jan 18, 2012 8:44 AM CST up reply actions
That's funny...
mune does too. When it comes on she just stops & stares, while doing a little gig.
"It's not the size of the cat in the fight, it's size of the fight in the cat"
"Pep talks... only work when they touch that ember of truth learned the hardest possible way on the field.-Kleph
by thecalicocat on Jan 18, 2012 10:13 AM CST up reply actions
Percy did slip in the draft.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
by Slice of Life on Jan 18, 2012 8:25 AM CST up reply actions
Well, he's really small...
…and it was a very strong draft….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 18, 2012 8:30 AM CST up reply actions
Well, well, well...
…look what the cat dragged in….
Whazzup, Spock? Good to be home?
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 18, 2012 10:03 PM CST up reply actions
hmmm ......
I wonder if this is who Calloway was riding with last year??
"Two things were certain in our household: Alabama football and church on Sunday. We were raised to believe in God and root for anyone that was playing against Auburn" Pam Swinney
Regardless of the debate as to whether possession of marijuana should be criminal,
Dre showed poor judgment by putting himself in this position.
More tea Mrs. Billington?
You think?
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
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