Issue 3 (For Ohio Residents)

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(11-04-2015, 02:36 PM)Benton Wrote: 1- You're losing me here. You're in favor of people having the ability to huff spray paint, but you're opposed to weed? I think it's probably just a miscommunication. As far as the addiction, that's typically the primary concern, people who can't stop. The guy who drinks a few too many and then drives or the person who takes more than the prescribed amount of pills.

2- There's an Amish community nearby, yes. Caffeine is a socially acceptable psychoactive stimulant. That's a drug. It's a very addictive one and has a variety of negative side effects. Just because you find it more acceptable than pot doesn't make it any less of a drug.

3- One is a drug that alters the mood, appetite, nervous system and effects areas of the brain. The other is a drug that alters the mood, appetite, nervous system and effects areas of the brain.They both effect people differently. I wasn't going to be derogatory, but since you're being aggressive with the "weak" argument label, the weakness of yours is that you fail to realize both drugs (THC and caffiene) effect people differently. Some people smoke pot and feel no effects (negative or positive) because of the way they're wired. Some people drink a caffeniated beverage and become very adversely effected.

You're applying a one-size fits all label to both drugs and that's silly.

4- As said, I don't smoke. And — again, since you're taking this down a confrontational road — to counter, I'd ask, do you look down from your caffeinated high horse and ridicule people have a different proclivity to a drug than you? That they prefr the altering effects of nicotine, THC or whatever to your caffeine?

5- I could have worded that better (sorry, only two cups of coffee this morning). I was referring to caffeine being a socially acceptable psychoactive drug. 

6- And? One is accepted an less regulated, others are less accepted and more regulated?

As a side note, I didn't finish it, but I originally started school to become a substance abuse counselor. One of the first things that surprised me was how much of an effect caffeine has on a person. I realize you do it so you think it's not much, but you should read up on it.

Drink a couple of cups of Starbucks and tell me it doesn't get your heart racing.  It does mine.