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- baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -16/+165I blame Politicians
- rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -21/+161Policitcians and fear mongerers. Right Wing Christians, Uppity scapegoat searching parents, Moral police, etc. you know the type.
- argoff, on 10/12/2007, -4/+128Yes! Most people don't understand that in they eyes of the government that the war on drugs is a stunning success. The war on drugs has allowed them expand government into every area of peoples private lives, it has allowed them to expand their police and prison apparatus by orders of magnitude. It has allowed them to interfere in the banking and trade affairs of every country on the planet, and to monitor and probe peoples private financial transactions on a massive scale. It is not a coincidence that the rise of the war on drugs has coincided with the rise of average percapita taxes from under 10% to well over 40%. Enforcement of such taxes would be impossible in a "free" society. In fact the war on drugs has been so successful at attacking peoples liberties, that now they have brought it to the next level, the war on terror.
- baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -12/+123"that generates billions of dollars a year in illegal revenue"
it is illegal cause it generates illegal revenue? haha. talk about a continuous cycle - baalzebub, on 10/12/2007, -16/+98Legalize pot!!!
we like it a lot!!! - hambend, on 10/12/2007, -3/+77It's even more frustrating for the rest of the world. Here in New Zealand, as with most of the developed world, the reason Marijuana is illegal is because America said so. Not even Holland has the balls to fully legalize pot, for fear of violating 40-year-old UN trade agreements.
So if all this stuff seems irrelevant in America, imagine what it's like for the rest of us. - Buddhist, on 10/12/2007, -5/+74Looks like I refreshed at just the right time:
http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/4249/goodthingsl3.jpg - XISUPERMANIX, on 10/12/2007, -11/+71yeah because we all sleep outside [/sarcasm]
I declare Bashon's comment the dumbest ever made on digg. - baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -4/+60@ laddie
haha. you know Alcohol was made illegal once too. Thank god we came to our senses. You really have no reason to fear Pot so much. It is far less destructive to our society than alcohol. How many people smoke pot and then become abbusive *****? - madm0nk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+54I know every time I smoke a J, I immediately feel like beating my wife and kids, knocking over a liquor store, get in my car drive like an idiot and crash into a telephone pole (or even worse ... into someone else)..... oh wait .... that's alcohol, not pot .... my bad.
- lordmetroid, on 10/12/2007, -17/+68It is not illegal! The law is unconstitutional and hence invalid. And an invalid law is no law at all!
- Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -7/+58It was racism and greed that made it illegal. Do some damn research before commenting.
- baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -4/+53"We arent in the 1600's anymore"
i guess the internet is a dead giveaway. anyways, marajuana was legal well beyond the founding of the constitution - DrFrigmundPseud, on 10/12/2007, -8/+56It's Xenu and the body thetans that make it illegal.
The body thetans are pissed off because they got blown up by a nuclear bomb in a volcano and....
Wait a minute, this is total and utter nonsense.
Damn you L. Ron, damn you... - wheaty, on 10/12/2007, -8/+54@Bashon,
Thanks for telling us 'the truth'
Your post is the stupidest ***** most ignorant thing I've seen all day. If someone is a lazy stupid moron and smokes pot, you would probably say, "oh, it's the pot that makes him lazy and stupid." But, that's just not true. What about all the successful people that smoke pot. Are you aware that some doctors and firefighters smoke pot? Oh, but that's right... the pot will probably kill them and someone else will have to raise their children.
Oh, God won't someone please think of the children. - headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42I've known far too many successful people who smoke pot. Top architects in their field. The real truth is, lazy stupid people who smoke pot, were lazy and stupid before they started smoking pot. Hell, them being lazy and stupid is probably what led them to smoking pot in the first place.
The worst part about your rant is this: It should be MY ***** choice to be dumb, lazy, or freeze to death in the cold (WTF?). I already have a mom thank you. I don't need another one in the form of my government. - bigdt87, on 10/12/2007, -10/+49Its absoultely unacceptable ***** that pot is illegal. Its absolutely unnaceptable ***** x123892374987 that hemp is illegal.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+45"psychotic drug"
I think you meant something else. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+42I love reading dugg down comments - they always cheer me up.
Wacko! - AriaStar, on 10/12/2007, -10/+42The politicians are douches. Make something illegal and they can bust people for it and make some money. But we all know they're all doin' a little on the side.
- Dominatus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33"that generates billions of dollars a year in illegal revenue"
Funniest thing I think I ever read on digg. I don't think Ive ever seen a more idiotic argument for the illegality of a drug. - nayr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30it's no worse than alcohol.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29I highly doubt that even 1% of pot smokers freeze to death, let alone "most" of them.
- HigherLogic, on 10/12/2007, -6/+34@Drahkar: "Marijuana amd Hemp are two different plants..."
WRONG! Marijuana and hemp are NOT two different plants. Marijuana is the slang terms used, nowadays, to talk about the "street drug," the flowering tops (buds) of the Cannabis Sativa/Indica plant. Hemp IS Cannabis Sativa, it is nothing more than the fiber of the Cannabis plant.
Pot == Weed == Marijuana == Cannabis == Hemp
Get it right before making a fool of yourself by telling others to get their "information" right. - unicornhunter, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29I like his comment. It's funny. I should say stupid stuff like that to see how many digg downs I get.
- AriaStar, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30@ baxtermaddux:
Exactly. My dad smoked it when he was stressed or pissed and mellowed out. But the last time he drank when he was mad instead of doing pot, BANG! Dad's dead.
This stuff mellows people out. If anything, we should be giving pot to those who could otherwise be abusive or who would drink and do dumb *****. Society would be safer. - EricCiccone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Work on your word choice buddy, and for once, instead of criticizing what other people do (which is none of your business), why not put that energy into something else like your school work or job, something other that telling people what to do.
- zombiedepot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26No one blame the police, some of them want it legalized.
http://www.leap.cc/ - Darkjedi, on 10/12/2007, -34/+57Pot is bad because it's illegal.
And it's illegal because it's bad. - XISUPERMANIX, on 10/12/2007, -15/+38If marijuana is illegal then so should tobacco and alcohol. Both are harmful and I bet more people drink, rather than smoke weed. But of course that will never happen because alcohol and tobacco are 2 heavily taxed items, what does this mean? U.S. government likes your money. If anything alcohol is worse than weed, many users may remember about a month ago a post about a ex-cop here on digg selling a video on how not to get caught with something illegal when confronted by police. He said that alcohol was more of a gateway drug than marijuana was. Drinking kills brain cells, causes alcoholism, causes so many DUI's and accidents, what good does it do for us? Nothing just good money being made from its sales. Alcohol impairs every sense, as well as your judgement and ability to drive. I have never met anyone that could drive drunk and not get caught or even drive straight, I have hotboxed in a car before when the driver was smoking and his driving was fine, nothing changed at all. People say their reaction is slower but it was exactly the same. I really hope it gets legalized, if not I hope tobacco and alcohol become illegal.
- rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26The actual smoke from marijuana is not as dangerous as tobacco smoke and with a vaporizer, hookah, or bong, the smoke is signifigantly less harmful.
- kakwakas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Bashon, you obviously have no idea how many people smoke weed. I work at a gas station and about 2/3 of my regular customers (ranging from the 20-something kids to the 50+ people) buy rolling papers (and most rolling tobacco comes with papers, plus I say "We have a new sharing tax on these" and they always grin). This doesn't even account for any other regulars who may use pipes, vaporizers, etc to smoke.
So long as you're the type of guy that demonizes weed and other people know, they'll never tell you that they smoke. You'll probably never even notice. (Unless they smoke every day. Moderation is the key to everything). - Jolene, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22I still don't get why religious people are against natural drugs. I mean, their god created everything right? So, didn't he create marijuana?
And hell, for the people that believe in jesus, you just KNOW he was doin' some weed back then. I mean come on! Twelve guys, always walking everywhere, no jobs, always waring sandals. Come on... You're gonna tell me they didn't?
Maybe you're god created natural drugs because he wants you to be happy and enjoy you're self. Meh, just a thought. - felderado, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21it's because they wanted to boost the tobacco industry. Have you seen the stupid "Marijuana is bad" propaganda posters from way back? If you ask me, I'd want to smoke it with posters like these:
http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lg3517.jpg
http://www.theharbinger.org/xvi/971111/reefer.gif
http://cannabis.net/thc/marijuana.jpg - Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+27I'm not a big fan of weed, nor of tobacco. I've never smoked either and never plan to. However, seeing the long-term effects of both, I'm of the opinion that if marijuana is illegal, tobacco *really* should be illegal. So many people are dying due to cigarettes...
It's all a money scam. The government and private health-care industries make far too much money off of tobacco. In Canada, the burden tobacco causes on our Medicare is offset by the fact that a regular pack of smokes costs $10 after tax (no joke)... and people still buy it.
If weed were to become legal, a lot smokers would grow it themselves, taking away most of the profit from the government. Not to mention most right-wingers continue to associate moronic pot-head teenagers with the drug, preventing them from really seeing it in any positive light.
Luckily, hemp is legal here in Canada. - GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Because people feel they have a right to interfere in the lives of others.
- unicornhunter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Because:
1.) It's a conspiracy motivated by profit
Pretty simple.
But during WWII, it's "Hemp for Victory!". - alcimedes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17If you have problem with marijuana being illegal, you should take some time to read up on, or work with groups that are doing something about it.
http://www.mpp.org
Take a look around, *do* something about the problem if you don't like it.
While digging something to the front page is nice, a little time, a little money or a little bit of education on the subject would probably do more good. - kingink2007, on 11/02/2007, -3/+17lol....i think bashon was totally smokin pot when he wrote that....
- laddie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16"I have never met anyone that could drive drunk and not get caught or even drive straight"
you obviously dont know that many alcoholics - ardenr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Gah. It's because people can't recognize circular logic when they see it that we have these problems with legalizing it, although possibly short attention spans with over-quick reactions contribute as well. Thanks for pointing that out Diggers.
- fourzerofour, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16"@Drahkar: "Marijuana amd Hemp are two different plants..."
WRONG! Marijuana and hemp are NOT two different plants. Marijuana is the slang terms used, nowadays, to talk about the "street drug," the flowering tops (buds) of the Cannabis Sativa/Indica plant. Hemp IS Cannabis Sativa, it is nothing more than the fiber of the Cannabis plant.
Pot == Weed == Marijuana == Cannabis == Hemp
Get it right before making a fool of yourself by telling others to get their "information" right."
You ALMOST got it right but actually hemp != marijuana. C. sativa subsp. indica = Marijuana and C. sativa subsp. sativa var. spontanea = Hemp. They are the same family of plant but, Hemp has THC in it but if you ate enough to get the high most people get when smoking marijuana then you would probably ***** yourself due to the high amount of fiber you are eating. Hence that is what you can grow hemp in Canada as long there is so many acres so when they fly by they can easily detect weather it is hemp or marijuana.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_sativa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp - GlenLeafJr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15You can't just grow, dry, and smoke tobacco. You have to cure it.
I don't know anyone that grows tabacco either.
But I know a few that grow, dry, and smoke pot. - SoulRebel23, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Marijuana is illegal because the police as an institution spend millions of dollars lobbying to keep it that way. The War on Drugs means money for them, and is the reason that a lot of them are employed. Prohibition gives them an excuse to target poor communities and minorities, and they profit from this. A vast majority of police support prohibition and almost all the rest are complacent in a system that sends millions of harmless people to jail every year. There may be some individual police working for change, but as an institution, the police are responsible for the drug war.
- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Slavery is an infringement against the rights of others in violating their property right in their own body. Really it falls under the same category as drug legislation although obviously at a greater severity. In banning drugs a person is asserting ownership over your body in refusing you the right to use it in non-coercive pursuits.
Nobody wants drugs to be legalised because that's what they were 200 years ago. People want drugs legalised because the state has no right to claim such power over peoples life. - m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Dumbest comment...Or GREATEST COMMENT EVER?
- Brickhaus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I hope you guys realize that Bashon is just some high ***** getting a quick laugh out of infuriating all of you.
- milkmage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@Mephisto
oh... my.. god.. how can you be such a dumbass?
"Pot is illegal because if it was legal, everyone would be smoking it."
alcohol and cigarettes are legal yet you MUST know people who don't drink or smoke
"Drinking and driving would be replaced by smoking weed and driving."
That law is already on the books. It's called driving under the influence (doesn't matter if it's booze, weed or Oxycontin)
"Just think about it for a second."
I did - nothing happend. Never heard of a beligerent stoner, but I know several beligerent drinkers. We all know tons of people that did something stupid while drunk, but I have yet to meet anyone that regrets anything they did while high (except maybe eat all the Doritios)
dangerous substance? um alcohol is a POISON (your brain loves it, your body hates it) - ever heard of acute alcohol POISONING? There is no ***** way you can smoke weed until you die of a THC overdose.
dangerous substance? why then is there a LEGAL alternative called Marinol (synthetic THC)- perscribed to cancer and AIDS patients:
http://www.webmd.com/drugs/drug-9308-Marinol.aspx?drugid=9308&drugname=Marinol
The active ingredient in MARINOL is dronabinol
Dronabinol is a synthetic version of a naturally occurring compound known as
delta-9-THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol)
Delta-9-THC stimulates appetite and reduces nausea and vomiting by binding to special receptors found in your nervous system
Delta-9-THC is also one of many components in marijuana. In fact, delta-9-THC is the main ingredient responsible for most of marijuana’s effects
read before you type - better yet - just read. - chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10One of the main reasons I think decriminalization never gets any traction is that the pro-marijuana people always roll out some lawyer with a ponytail to argue their case.
- kettle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Why did anonymoustrop get dugg down? He hit the nail on the head. We live in what is still (mockingly by most of the rest of the world) called a democracy.
We complain bitterly and at length about the iniquities of our leaders, yet how often to we actually bother to exercise our political and constitutional will in order to effect the policy that we believe in.
The sad truth is that we tend to accept these 'because' types of explanations without question. We accept the authority of our leaders without question, when in fact they have no more clue as to what the long term ramifications of their decisions are than we do. (not to mention the fact that they often don7t seem to be acting in the public's best interests...)
Digg him back up, for shame. -
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