TheFatKid
01-17-2007, 11:00 PM
I didn't feel like finding my old thread, so here is the original email, their reply, and mine.
I have been smoking marijuana for about two years. I retain information just as well as any other clean teenager. If you have a desire to learn, you can overcome this. I know I have. Some of my other friends however haven't. It seems to me that you are saying heavy marijuana use is like heavy alcohol use. Well, it isn't. If you drink too much at once, you may die. If you smoke too much at once the worst thing that will happen to you is you pass out on the couch. Also, even though marijuana is illegal, it shouldn't be. It is way less harmless than alcohol, cough medicine, even fast food for christ sake. Eat a pound of fast food, gain a pound or two. Smoke an ounce of weed, fall asleep. Prohibition in the 1920's didn't work, so why will marijuana prohibition stay? I think we both know the answer. It's because the government is afraid of being wrong that smoking a little bit of dope makes you completely worthless. Also, it is very easy to grow, therefore hard to tax.
"AbovetheInfluence.com" <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for your interest in AbovetheInfluence.com. First thing's first -
marijuana is illegal. Research shows that marijuana affects many of the
skills required for learning. It can hinder your ability to learn. Heavy
marijuana use impairs young people's ability to concentrate and retain
information. Visit http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/marijuana.html for more
information. Why would you want to risk your academic success and future?
Thank you for contacting www.AbovetheInfluence.com.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 11:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: ATI - Contact Us Questions
Contact Us Questions
Screen Name: StonedAndSuccesful
Email Address: [email protected] Type of question: general
questions/comments
Message: I've been smoking marijuana since I was 12. I am now 14, going on
15. I use the plant responsibly, and don't abuse it. I am not lazy. I am in
the top 10 percent of the freshman class. Marijuana has given me a different
outlook on life. It helps me study important ideas and philosophies. It
cures the pain from the aches I constantly get in my body. My lungs are
perfectly fine also. In all, I want to tell you propaganda spreading,
ignorant, fascists to stop spreading false information. Did you know
cigarettes and alcohol are worse than marijuana, and that there has been 0
deaths from marijuana in history? In all of this time I have been smoking, I
have never caused trouble, dropped out from my sophomore/junior honor
classes I am taking as a freshman. I like to give my friends advice while
I'm high. Usually they tell me it works very good. Maybe you should focus on
harder drug propaganda, such as crystal meth and heroine. Don't waste our
tax dollars on this ignorance. The more people know about the truth, the
wiser they become. In reality, you are dumbing people down with false
information. Let our people know the truth. The nation is based on honesty.
Is this the nation you want? A nation filled with people who believe the
false information they are told? What if a group of people like yourselves
said that fast food is the best thing for you because it is cheap, and
contains most of the food groups. Then these people said you need to eat
more to be healthy. Well now they believe you, and everyone is incredibly
unhealthy, and we have people dying. Your advertising is going to kill the
nation. Marijuana can help AIDS patients live longer. They lose their
hunger, and refuse to eat. What do you do? Give them a nice joint filled
with Cannabis Sativa. They WILL eat. What if this patient is a loved one?
What will you do, let them die faster? No, of course you won't. You will
want them to live. If the government legalized marijuana, they could focus
on more important things, such as hard drugs, gang violence, rape, murders,
serial killers, etc. The list goes on. We could put those people in jail,
and take a harmless man who wanted to take a little hit out of jail.
Marijuana laws are not laws. They are jokes.
I have been smoking marijuana for about two years. I retain information just as well as any other clean teenager. If you have a desire to learn, you can overcome this. I know I have. Some of my other friends however haven't. It seems to me that you are saying heavy marijuana use is like heavy alcohol use. Well, it isn't. If you drink too much at once, you may die. If you smoke too much at once the worst thing that will happen to you is you pass out on the couch. Also, even though marijuana is illegal, it shouldn't be. It is way less harmless than alcohol, cough medicine, even fast food for christ sake. Eat a pound of fast food, gain a pound or two. Smoke an ounce of weed, fall asleep. Prohibition in the 1920's didn't work, so why will marijuana prohibition stay? I think we both know the answer. It's because the government is afraid of being wrong that smoking a little bit of dope makes you completely worthless. Also, it is very easy to grow, therefore hard to tax.
"AbovetheInfluence.com" <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for your interest in AbovetheInfluence.com. First thing's first -
marijuana is illegal. Research shows that marijuana affects many of the
skills required for learning. It can hinder your ability to learn. Heavy
marijuana use impairs young people's ability to concentrate and retain
information. Visit http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/marijuana.html for more
information. Why would you want to risk your academic success and future?
Thank you for contacting www.AbovetheInfluence.com.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 11:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: ATI - Contact Us Questions
Contact Us Questions
Screen Name: StonedAndSuccesful
Email Address: [email protected] Type of question: general
questions/comments
Message: I've been smoking marijuana since I was 12. I am now 14, going on
15. I use the plant responsibly, and don't abuse it. I am not lazy. I am in
the top 10 percent of the freshman class. Marijuana has given me a different
outlook on life. It helps me study important ideas and philosophies. It
cures the pain from the aches I constantly get in my body. My lungs are
perfectly fine also. In all, I want to tell you propaganda spreading,
ignorant, fascists to stop spreading false information. Did you know
cigarettes and alcohol are worse than marijuana, and that there has been 0
deaths from marijuana in history? In all of this time I have been smoking, I
have never caused trouble, dropped out from my sophomore/junior honor
classes I am taking as a freshman. I like to give my friends advice while
I'm high. Usually they tell me it works very good. Maybe you should focus on
harder drug propaganda, such as crystal meth and heroine. Don't waste our
tax dollars on this ignorance. The more people know about the truth, the
wiser they become. In reality, you are dumbing people down with false
information. Let our people know the truth. The nation is based on honesty.
Is this the nation you want? A nation filled with people who believe the
false information they are told? What if a group of people like yourselves
said that fast food is the best thing for you because it is cheap, and
contains most of the food groups. Then these people said you need to eat
more to be healthy. Well now they believe you, and everyone is incredibly
unhealthy, and we have people dying. Your advertising is going to kill the
nation. Marijuana can help AIDS patients live longer. They lose their
hunger, and refuse to eat. What do you do? Give them a nice joint filled
with Cannabis Sativa. They WILL eat. What if this patient is a loved one?
What will you do, let them die faster? No, of course you won't. You will
want them to live. If the government legalized marijuana, they could focus
on more important things, such as hard drugs, gang violence, rape, murders,
serial killers, etc. The list goes on. We could put those people in jail,
and take a harmless man who wanted to take a little hit out of jail.
Marijuana laws are not laws. They are jokes.