Legalizing drugs.

[Artemis]

Another thing I like about Idol is his sense of humor.

We can't all be autistic savants. Good thing too.

Altho' I'd like to be one for a day. Very much like I'd want a vagina for a day.
I'd cram as much stuff as I could fit into my new brain/vagina til the early onset of haemorrhage.

The experience would improve me as a person, I think

Squeamous can give you some tips on cramming things into orifices. The weed whacker is still missing in action last I heard

[OlegL]

Btw I'm telling you that they weren't so who you gonna believe?

Remember Canadians don't lie.

Remember Canadians who aren't politicians don't lie.

Well, maybe Canadians don't lie, but the author of this thread sometimes acts like a complete dumb ass and he's Canadian.

[megabyteme]

Well, maybe Canadians don't lie, but the author of this thread sometimes acts like a complete dumb ass and he's Canadian.

He's also the one who stole the weed whacker...

[TheScrab]

Squeamous can give you some tips on cramming things into orifices. The weed whacker is still missing in action last I heard

haha

[Mr. Mulder]

keep them illegal so i can feel like a big man when i go into our bathroom or communal garden to do them.

[Squeamous]

I would have been in heavy praise of the label "autistic savant", but some of the qualifications had to be stretched to match what I do (which is why I ultimately didn't endorse it). Not that I don't have anything against the types, they're quite entertaining.

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Au contraire. It's just that you so perfectly fit the behaviour patterns of an autistic savant (albeit a high functioning one). At first the fact you claimed to be well liked and sociable gave me some trouble, until I realised socialising to you is just another formula into which you plug a set of variable parameters.

Macky at a Fourth of July street party:
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Macky expressing concern that someone moved his calculator from its designated place next to his hole punch:
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Macky writing a love letter to Benzene:
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[megabyteme]

^

I think that one has legs, Sq.

[mjmacky]

I would have been in heavy praise of the label "autistic savant", but some of the qualifications had to be stretched to match what I do (which is why I ultimately didn't endorse it). Not that I don't have anything against the types, they're quite entertaining.

Au contraire. It's just that you so perfectly fit the behaviour patterns of an autistic savant (albeit a high functioning one). At first the fact you claimed to be well liked and sociable gave me some trouble, until I realised socialising to you is just another formula into which you plug a set of variable parameters.

Your social/related ones kind of might work off handedly, but I'll highlight the ones that you were stretching. I feel if you spent some more time constructing the argument, you could have made it work.

Think about it: good with maths, ability to drone on and on with meticulous verbosity on subjects of no interest to anyone else, obsessive attention to detail, able to function socially only through a series of learned routines rather than through any real empathy. I could go on but suffice it to say:

Your qualifier is based on subject matter, of which I stick to interesting topics (without delving into pop culture too much). Obsessive attention to detail was also forced. Though I pick at technical details and literal nuances, it's usually to annoy someone rather than a driven interest. The context of these things matter.

I could certainly make a much more successful argument, but then I'd be doing all the work for you. I can't imagine a reason I'd ever be inspired to do that.

There is one other problem, Tom Cruise is alive in all those scenes. There's no way I'd permit that.

[OlegL]

Well, maybe Canadians don't lie, but the author of this thread sometimes acts like a complete dumb ass and he's Canadian.

He's also the one who stole the weed whacker...

He's a retard.

[dinges]

Apart from the occasional Belgian beer and French wine, I have no vested interest in any narcotic drug.

It has become apparent to me that residents of this forum are at the very least knowledgeable on the subject, so now I'd like to find out what the argumentative hype is. To the extents of my knowledge and professional social circles, I know of no one who supports this movement, with direct relation to the substances at hand themselves, with an annual salary higher than 5 grand a year (I'm just rounding up) (Unit of measurement: Mexican Pesos).

Well here is one person. Annual salary higher than 200 grand (in swiss franks). Weed is widespread here but alas a legalization referendum 2 years ago failed by 45/55%. Estimated # of users is 1 million on a population of 8 million. Police hardly give it any attention. I grow my own (4 plants a year) while having a wife and 2 teenage kids and a good (IT) job at a bank. There are many like me.

We do not harm anyone, there is no reason to persecute us and even less to lock us away (society would collapse).

The question should never be why to legalize something, but why to prohibit something. Prohibition is not a normal state of things and should be underpinned with extremely good arguments before starting such a blunt policy.

I don't want to go into the details here (there are numerous other forums on the topic elsewhere), but at least for weed there are 0 arguments to have it outlawed. Everything behind the prohibition is based upon lies and caused by vested interests.

Although I have nothing with harder drugs, never used them and never intend to do so even once, I think that prohibitions net effects even for these substances are negative and people and society would be better of without prohibition. Instead, you need health care, regulation and education.

b.t.w. I donate quite a bit to various legalization movements (and to the EFF and other organizations that fight for civil liberties).