Question by SuicidalKissesProduction™ 216: Drug Addiction, Alcoholics & terrible comedy; why?
It’s 1:11 PM here, time to piss folks off by asking a question nobody seems to be able to answer without defending some illogical munchies threaded B.S.

Why are more people becoming acceptable to Drug addiction & Alcoholics; which has ruined comedy altogether. “Oh you can’t get addicted to weed; you only crave it” That is called addiction; so you don’t go through withdraws if you don’t have it… still addiction.

It’s utterly pathetic; people accepting sitting on your backside smoking pot & Drinking beer instead of supporting the stop of hunger or curing diseases. Tell me; ever known someone who smoked or drinked that become anything more then a complete tool with a superiority complex that thinks they know more about what they do then everybody else?

“Prohibition didn’t work”; prohibition didn’t work because we just took alcohol away instead of teaching people why it should be illegal.

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Answer by Ozymandias Fell
“That is called addiction; so you don’t go through withdraws if you don’t have it… still addiction.”

Yes, this is the same way that food, masturbation, video games and stamp-collecting (philately!) is addictive. Everything is addictive like this if you’re crazy enough. Dr Henningfield of NIDA ranked cannabis as less addictive than caffeine, i.e last out of the six most used drugs (not including medicine, although cannabis is a medicine, so I guess it does include medicine).

“smoking pot & Drinking beer instead of supporting the stop of hunger or curing diseases”

You could apply this to just about anything. ‘Playing badminton…’, ‘Pleasuring your wife..’.

“ever known someone who smoked or drinked that become anything more then a complete tool with a superiority complex that thinks they know more about what they do then everybody else?”

Yep. Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Alexandre Dumas, Ken Kesey, Stephen King, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan… I mean, Jimi Hendrix was definitely modest. He refused to accept that he was the best guitarist alive.

“”Prohibition didn’t work”; prohibition didn’t work because we just took alcohol away instead of teaching people why it should be illegal.”

Why should it be illegal? Moderate use is beneficial to your body, it is a giant industry.. and furthermore, haven’t you heard of freedom? You know, “over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign” (J.S. Mill). Prohibition didn’t work because people want to drink. That’s the same reason the war on drugs is failing – people want to take drugs.

Anyway, if it was the case that enough education would make people stop drinking – why bother making it illegal? Methanol isn’t illegal, but if you drink that stuff you’ll die – the people are educated, so they don’t drink it. No illegality required.

Add: The prohibition of alcohol also created powerful criminal gangs – exactly like the powerful drug cartels we have today that only exist because drugs are illegal.

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