Comment posted Positives? by TheManWithTheHat.

Generally speaking, you probably shouldn’t spank your kid. I seriously doubt a 4-year-old has doing anything even remotely worthy of being hit for. As for your comparison of alcohol and cannabis–that’s kind of ignorant on your part; the two drugs are very dissimilar. Between being sober, drunk, or high–if you hit your kid sober, you probably will do the same intoxicated. However, between alcohol and cannabis, alcohol is far more likely to increase violent behavior than cannabis is.

“No violence link

Psychoactive Substances and Violence, a 1994 report conducted by the US Justice Information Center, concluded: “Of all psychoactive substances alcohol is the only one whose consumption has been shown to commonly increase aggression. ”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6484653.stm

–Do some research before you open your mouth.–

Alcohol violence – http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa38.htm
Alcohol effects – http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/alcohol/alcohol_effects.shtml
Cannabis effects- http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_effects.shtml

Recent comments by TheManWithTheHat

• No Shining Answers
  I’m not banned–I just felt that there was really nothing left to be said.
  No sense in kicking a corpse.

  And I will be glad to continue discussing this should the admin provide any real evidence or facts that can be cited, pal ol’ buddy ol’ friend.

• No Shining Answers
  - “Yes, I would argue that. Prove me wrong.. You can’t.”

  Yeah… Scientifically speaking, proof of a theory works the other way, broski. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You made the claim, you supply the evidence. Prove that.

  - “Saying “Oh sure go ahead and make everything legal” was my statement, not yours. ”

  By the way… They did it in Portugal–and drug use and violent crime is down across the board.

  - “Here is the best part of your first statement “Blaming higher power for your addiction is nonsense”. Addicts and alcoholics don’t blame a higher power for their addiction. A higher power is what helps us to get into recovery.”

  Actually, it does inherently imply that. “1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol.” If you are indeed powerless over it, the only thing that could have caused it to be so is your God.

  - “You are a waste of my time and intelligence on the subject of addiction. Go to an AA meeting or talk to an addictionologist so that you will have a good argument the next time you try to act so smart listing references. But, you’re probably even smarter than our previous president George Bush (who was an alcoholic who worked the 12 step program), so I assume you will not need to do that.”

  I love it when religious folk resort to hostility when their belief is refuted with truth.

• No Shining Answers
  -”How many addicts do you think only smoke pot?”

  Gateway drug theory there. Try to use legitimate information, and not the made up kind. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/uopm-ng120406.php

  - “All of my pot buddies did a little of this and little bit of that too. And then all of their pot buddies did a little of this and little of that too.”

  And your non-pot buddies did a little of this and a little bit of that.

  - “We can just say that you have to wait until 21 to smoke pot or use drugs. Yeah, tell that to my fake ID and my older buddies.”

  The ID requirement is better than no ID requirement.

  - “Who do you really think buys most of the liquor and beer in the world? Your wine tasting buddies? Sure…..”

  Your honestly going with the argument that the addicts in the country buy so much alcohol that they out purchase all other consumer sales of alcohol. That’s just ridiculous.

  - “Oh sure go ahead and make everything legal.”

  Congratulations on making something up that I never said.

  - “Give me a break. Find someone who has been there, because you have not my friend.”

  Yeah. I could go out and find a homeless quadruple-amputee with HIV and say “Hey, all people who are homeless are amputees with terminal illnesses.”
  You can overgeneralize and pretend that the entire population has it terrible based on a few acute horrible cases and make that your basis for everything.

  Sure some people have it really bad–everyone however does not have it bad.

  Also, please don’t call me your friend. I do not befriend people who totally disregard empirical evidence in exchange for their nonsensical “beliefs”–that what they think is infallibly correct.

  Have a nice day

• No Shining Answers
  How about suggesting the use of secular addiction groups in place of the religiously affiliated 12-step groups that force religion on its participants. Blaming higher power for your addiction is nonsense, it’s your fault. I should clarify that the generalized “you” to which I refer is the person prone to psychological or physical dependence as a result of their physical makeup.

  Also, an important thing you remember: The use of drugs does not automatically make it drug abuse–which seems to contradict the common theme of every site like this which claims that use of any and all drugs is bad and must be stopped for society’s protection.

  What you all pontificate is effectively that people are too weak to make up their own mind as to what they should put into -their own- bodies, and that you should get to dictate what they can and cannot do with their lives based on some delusional sense of grandeur.

  Your entire campaign is essentially a war against the United States first amendment to the freedom of speech ,which inherently gives rise to the freedom of thought, and which is explicitly included in the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights’ Article 18.

  Considering that pot has caused no direct deaths from it’s use, your time is probably better served going after something that actually kills people–like tobacco, or alcohol.

  “•Tobacco causes 1 in 10 adult deaths worldwide.
  • Tobacco causes nearly 5 million deaths a year, or one death every 6.5 seconds.
  • The current death toll will nearly double by 2020 if current trends continue.
  • Total global smoking prevalence is 29%. By gender, 47.5% of men and 10.3% of women smoke.
  • Tobacco kills 50% of its regular users. Of the 1.3 billion smokers alive today, 650 million will eventually be killed by tobacco. Of them, 325 million between the ages of 35 and 69.”

  -From the World Health Organization
  http://www.who.int/tobacco/fctc/tobacco%20factsheet%20for%20COP4.pdf

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