Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
for years the issue of banning cigs advertising was an issue. they finally got the law passed, but it wasnt all of a sudden.
It's how it appeared to the general public though. Advertising for cigarettes and smoking was everywhere, really in your face, then it was banned. It seemed sudden and a lot of people who started smoking decades ago feel used. I know my generation really have no excuse for smoking, because we do know better. But my mum's generation and further back than that do have a reason to feel 'brainwashed'. Maybe the wrong term, but you get my drift? 🙂
Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
brainwashing? thats a theory.
That's all the government does with drugs. Its not that drugs are evil, its the drugs they haven't figured out how to make money off of yet. ADHD medication, depression pills, pain killers, they all effect your body, are potentially harmful, and addicting.
When I was in the hospital recently for Ulcerative Colitis I would be getting massive stomach pains. They would shoot me up with Dilaudid, a pain killer even more potent than Morpheme. If you've ever seen Trainspotting, when they shot up and they would completely zone out with a nothing but a smile on their face, thats how it felt. I would ask for it even when I wasn't in pain and the doctors had no problem hooking me up. I'd get the usual, "What's your pain on a scale of 1 to 10" and I'd sit there, wince a little and say anywhere from 5-10 and that was good enough for them. But when I told them I smoked pot they freaked and said "That's bad for you, you should stop!"
That's why the legalization of marijuana would help everybody, except the drug dealers of course.
Do the people who say things like that actually think we believe they're smoking a long-time dead guy's anus with smoke rings coming out of his decomposed nasal cavity? What do they take us for? Fools? Well, I've got something to tell them: We're on to you! We know what really goes down when you say you're "High on Jesus!"...We all know.