Marijuana

[fishsupreme]

Yesterday's writing prompt was Talk to me about marijuana.

I'm one of the few people who has no experience with the stuff. Due to allergies, I've never been interested in smoking anything, and never have. The idea of introducing more crap into my lungs for me to sneeze out does not have any appeal

Comments

[evelynne]

We as a society imprison countless people for harming themselves, heedless of the fact that the imprisonment harms them -- and the rest of our society -- even more than the drugs do, creating a permanent underclass compelled to a life of crime.

Usually when I think of legalization it's in terms of "they're not hurting anybody but themselves, if anyone at all." I hadn't thought of it in terms of how it was harming them even MORE than the drugs, and hurting society. I'm gonna have to ponder that one.

I'm loving your posts, so much, btw. I'll keep trying to comment in between herding nieces. :)

[fishsupreme]

Honestly, it's an atrocity how many people we incarcerate for drug crimes. The United States imprisons more people -- both in absolute numbers and in terms of a percentage of our population -- than any nation in modern history. Unless you count prisoners of war, we've surpassed Josef Stalin's gulag archipelago

[evelynne]

Oh, and btw, the part about more crap to sneeze out made me laugh. :)