People google their own name from time to time. Like, if you google my name, I find that I’m a professional hockey player. Except that’s a different guy who shares my name.
Well, there goes all my respect for you.
(You probably don’t even have a brother named Darryl.)
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Yes, I think honesty is an honorable quality.
Our strict Judeo-Christian household somehow raised a pothead. Hard to believe, I know :rolleyes:.
But I do admire my kid’s refusal to lie about it.
Kind of a funny story that led me to find this.
I was at work when a coworker was lamenting the fact that when he googles his name, the 3rd result is a facebook group, complete with his picture, titled “<His name> closed his car door on his dick”. Apparently he was unloading his car with something and “humped” at the door to swing it shut. Something happened and the tip of his penis got pinched pretty hard. His friends thought it was so funny they made a facebook group.
So I remembered the article and searched my name with the applicable terms. Then this came up and I was fascinated that such a long conversation had been started by it.
You would not believe the length of the discussions we’ve had on topics as mundane as appropriate drinks to order at a bar and footwear in houses. There is no nit so picky a doper will not die on that hill.
(Me, I don’t particularly care if people smoke pot. I don’t see the benefits of a lot of the drug prohibition, yadda yadda yadda, yay we’re still on topic.)
Not for nothing, but redacting his name doesn’t really do much if you put the rest of the group name in there. It’s not like there are a ton of “So-n-so closed his car door on his dick” groups on facebook. 
Oh yes: ow.
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I’ve never heard of anyone beating his wife unconscious after too many joints.
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I’ve never heard of anyone beating his wife unconscious after too many joints.
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Yeah, I’m gonna go ahead and put this out there: pot did NOT cause him to murder and eat his wife.
Even if we assume the premise, you should not be able to forge a diminished capacity defense for yourself based on something you deliberately did to yourself. If anything, a finding that you committed the offense due to deliberately putting yourself in an altered state ought to vastly increase the punishment handed down.
And EVEN IF pot was the pure cause of this, how many people have been beaten, raped or murdered by someone under the influence of alcohol? Those crimes happen on a daily basis by those who drink.
He’s serving life without parole. The jury was not impressed by the marijuana psycosis argument either, although it was not disputed that the guy was a daily pot smoker.
As for alcohol, with respect to the OP, a 17-year-old who bragged to the papers that he drank every day and against his parents’ wishes would be just as stupid and self-deluding as this kid.
An awful lot of date rapes happen while the victim is under the influence of alcohol or pot or both. Those are your two most common date-rape drugs. Pot increases your chances of being in a fatal car crash by 2 - 6x. In absolute numbers there are no doubt more crimes committed where alcohol is involved than marijuana, because there are probably a lot more people who drink regularly than who smoke pot regularly. But that doesn’t mean pot is harmless.
Or whether he lasts more than one, possibly two, semesters if he does.
Umm, what? did you stop reading the thread three posts in? He graduated.
So you googled yourself only to find that five years ago a bunch of total strangers were avoiding their work responsibilities by conjecturing on-line to all ends about the possibilities connected to the (to them) unknown circumstances tied to some minor event in your life that is long past, in the process coming to solidly reasoned conclusions regarding drug legalization, small-town law enforcement, filial duty, the social costs of addiction, the merits or non-merits of THC, and whether you were fool when you were 17. Hm.
The Internet’s a Hell of a drug.
“Paging Dr. Dio! Paging Dr. Dio! Please pick up the white Courtesy Phone.”
Where does this number come from, please?
I disagree with many points. I don’t think pot is a date rape drug or is one of the “two most common”. I’d be thinking roofies, GHB, or alcohol come way before that.
Now with issues like this it’s tough because I don’t think there are that many studies. I’m not sure where you got that “2-6x more likely to have a fatal car crash”, but here are some specific studies.
I’d say the most important fact is summarized in this study
I think many people have experienced this. While driving under the influence of marijuana, the user is acutely aware that they are intoxicated and work to focus much more than usual. You say to yourself “whoa, I’m a little high, I really need to concentrate”.
The thing with alcohol is that it often has an opposite effect. You may have experienced or witnessed the increased confidence a drunk person has, whether it involves dancing or talking to a member of the opposite sex. This applies to driving as well, where you underestimate the problems you are having and fail to compensate.
And in the end, this is all besides the point. Most, if not all of marijuana legalization proponents would argue that driving under the influence of marijuana is unacceptable, as those who believe alcohol should be legal are against drinking and driving.
As far as crimes go, I would bet that in addition to having a higher instance of crimes while under the influence of alcohol, there is a higher percentage as well. Just think of someone who is high compared to someone who is drunk. A stoner would tend to stay at home, giggle at some stupid TV show and kill a bag of cheetos. A drunk is probably at the bar with friends getting stupid and causing problems. Drunks get in fights, hippies don’t.
Already went over this. I didn’t complete one semester. Or two. I completed 8 and graduated on the deans list in 4 years at an exceptional university. My career is on an excellent path as well.
Pretty much. Kind of interesting.