Good, alcohol is a terrible drug.
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I'd rather see the gambling industry take a massive hit.
Why not both?
Well that's what happens when you socially engineer an alcoholism epidemic to boost sales in the near-term, but then people grow up and realize they need to quit drinking or else they'll continue destroying their lives on repeat like it's groundhog day or something
Alcohol always finds a reason and you don't want it, it wants you. Oh it's christmas have some wine, a toast at new year's no big deal, oh look new years day keep drinking to avoid the hangover. MLK!!!! and takes two shots, Valentine's Day you're on a dinner date with wine or a mixed drink or drowning alone, easter ham you might want a drink cause it's too salty, Saint Patrick's Day, Cinco Di Mayo and Mari Gras literally known for getting tanked, forth of July people are urged not to leave their houses at night same as new years eve for drunk drivers..... what else..... Halloween gotta party right? Then Turkey Day/Colonizer Day /Guilty White Person day-aka Thanksgiving and people chug the wine and argue or just get drunk and pass out right after dinner.
Then Christmas shows up and the fuckin ' cycle starts all over.
Same with mother fucking chocolate.
Hey I think we need more reasons to get tanked not less
I wonder if this industry is responsible for the surge in anti-cannabis content I'm seeing pushed in my social feeds of late.
Almost certainly. They don't want people to be able to have a fun buzz with out consequences the next day legally.
A long time ago I saw a website that had a sort of humorous dictionary on it. The entry for DEA always stuck with me:
D.E.A. - Distiller's Enforcent Apparatus. An army of masked thugs licensed to rob, defame, kidnap or kill those suspected of preferring other drugs over alcohol.
They're also responsible for anti-cannabis legislation.
Two things can be harmful to health at the same time. Both cannabis and alcohol have negative effects to your health.
Square!
(Ok fine you're right)
True, but also is true that one is way worse for your health and has had a metric fuck ton of studies. But the way you sound, it sounds like your pushing alcohol.
What mental gymnastics did you do to go
from
"Both Alcohol and Cannabis have negative effect on your health."
To
"It sounds like your pushing alcohol" (should be you're btw)
I'm pushing for neither, we should reduce alcohol consumption and weed consumption and even tobacco consumption for that matter. I want society to be healthier in general
I want socio economic conditions be so good, no one should feel the need to use any kind of intoxications to feel happy. I want adaquet mental health support.
Yep. Bro. What drugs are you on because I want some.
My drug is pure unaldertrated horniness bro
Certainly not phonics
I want socio economic conditions be so good, no one should feel the need to use any kind of intoxications to feel happy. I want adaquet mental health support.
LOL! Not happening in our lifetime. Enjoy the weed
Agreed.
I never used weed to feel happy. I never even thought it made me feel happy. Giddy, elated, calm - sure. But I keptt going back to it because I thought the time perception distortion effect and the visual/audio effects were fascinating.
I suppose there's a difference between use and abuse, and that drugs affect individuals differently. But damn, if all you get out of weed is "happy," I feel like you're missing out! (Not that happiness isn't important)
For me, the happiness from weed comes from enjoying everything more.. food, drink, sex, movies/tv, doing nothing, video games.
I live with cryonic nerve pain and life can be pretty miserable. Weed doesn't make it hurt less, just easier to ignore because everything else is better. I've tried all the pills doctors give me and they have been useless so far, but I'm always willing to try whatever promises relief
Yes
Yes.
Weird. Why don't you block ads like everyone else?
Where are you seeing it exactly?
Next to the billboard for the dispensary, in the drunk tank, my mother
You should bail your mom out of the tank.
No!
They didn't "lose money", they made less money than they thought they were going to make, or hypothetically could have made if we were living in some imaginary situation instead of actual reality.
If I go to my fridge and find out that there isn't as much ketchup in there as I thought there was I don't write an article whining about all the ketchup I've "lost".
Dude some of them legit lost. I love near wine country. The ones that adapted did well, the ones that didn't, fuck em. The bigger hit was Krasnov's trade war
yeah but think of all the folks betting on 'ketchup futures in some random dude's fridge' they are gambling on?
what about THEM?
Someone needs to bail out Czech republic 
What on Earth is "vine"?
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