# People Who Buy Pot Fund Murderers, Discuss **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 4, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-buy-pot-fund-murderers-discuss/292911 "2005-03-04T16:20:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 108
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-buy-pot-fund-murderers-discuss/292911/108 "2005-03-14T16:24:03Z")
> [@II Gyan II](#): > > Even you agree that pot has the potential to be the dominant drug (“in 500 years”). I disagree sharply with that timescale, simply because of the speed and reach of the instruments that determine trendsetting and habits. Alcohol’s history for the younger generation will be just that: history. I say that it might be the dominant drug in 500 years only because the farther out we get, the harder it is to predict anything. I’ll equally concede that opium might be the dominant drug in 500 years, or that LSD might be the dominant drug, or that some newly-discovered slime mold may be the dominant drug. As for pot, though, care for a wager? If, 20 years after pot’s legalization, it’s not the dominant drug, you owe me a bottle of fine cognac; if it is, I owe you an eighth of sticky greenbud. Daniel --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-buy-pot-fund-murderers-discuss/292911)._