re: Neighbor’s Teenage Son Just OD’d

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Can I ask why you're bringing up alcohol?

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If you can't figure out why people brought up alcohol in response to your argument that weed shouldn't be legal then you're not that bright.

You said weed shouldn't be legal because it's bad for developing brains.

There are many substances that are legal that are bad for developing brains...cigarettes and alcohol being two of them. That's why people bringing up alcohol as a response to your post is appropriate.

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If you can't figure out why people brought up alcohol in response to your argument that weed shouldn't be legal then you're not that bright.

You said weed shouldn't be legal because it's bad for developing brains.

There are many substances that are legal that are bad for developing brains...cigarettes and alcohol being two of them. That's why people bringing up alcohol as a response to your post is appropriate.

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I never defended alcohol dipshit. If you cant figure out why you brought it up to me when I never took a stance on it in the first place then this discussion is over.


I already said I'm for legalization. I dont give a frick about alcohol. I never defended it. Alcohol is damaging as well and has different effects as well.

Do you think just because alcohol has negative health effects that marijuana doesn't have any or something?

This is stupid.

Calling Drug Use a "Disease" is a crock of shite. These people have the ability to stop they just choose not to. Telling them they are victims is the reason the problem has gotten so big.

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I live in a very nice middle-class, swim and tennis neighborhood. Kid graduated an expensive private high school

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Glad to hear the will be paying the bill and not I.

Every soul in the west won the lottery at birth, if they want to give up that ticket it is not my place to stop them.

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what does his sister have to do with him being a good person? Completely irrelevant.

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The point of this thread was that the kid and his dad are the demographic of posters on this site. OT ballers who lost their kid because they were in denial.

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Go look at research, your brain is still developing up to 25 years of age and research companies have determined that using marijuana before the age of 25 with any regularity is bad for the development of your brain.

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BS!!! I started smoking weed when I was 12. Graduated high school third in my class and scored a 35 on the ACT test and was stoned and drunk when I took it.

CBD (compound in marijuana) is a helluva lot better alternative to the opioid epidemic raging in this country and it doesn't get you high. The benefits of it are great enough that its use is being approved by the NFL, the NBA, and MLB.

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I live in a very nice middle-class, swim and tennis neighborhood.

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The few people I've known to use heroin have been solid middle class types, so this checks out. I hope your neighbor makes it.

BTW, not sure if this related but most all of the opiates that are gettiing out on the streets are coming from bullshite pharmacies and doctors that will open up for a year or two, put millions of pills on the streets then vanish, open up as something different across town. The FDA used to be able to go after distribution houses for this bullshite. ( when you had 15 million OxyContin presribed in a town of 3000 for example) But congress passed laws making them excempt from prosecution and then ran off all the people who knew how to go after them.

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The reported drop in overdose deaths occurred in Wyoming, Utah, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Mississippi, Kansas, Rhode Island, Oregon, California, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Arizona and Hawaii. That compares with declines in only three states — Nebraska, Washington and Wyoming — reported for an earlier 12-month period that ended in January 2017.

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This stuff tends to run in cycles. Kids see what happens to their older friends and relatives and swear off the stuff until a new generation rises without that institutional memory. Those of us who grew up in the seventies and eighties were taken aback when the recreational use of opiods took off a few years ago because we saw the devastation it caused in the immediately preceeding generation.

You dont see many kids using crack now, and meth will probably start to wane until those drugs come back around in a decade or two.