Hey guys, I'm pretty new to marijuana, and I just thought I'd intro myself. From NZ, still in high, enjoy getting high, find that getting high is to my psyche as differentiation is to finding the gradient of a curve. I love growing things as well. My hobbies are growing herbs, a bit of tobacco, and growing money through investment. Sadly those herbs do not yet include green.
I have an issue to raise...what scares me about the current state of society, is the attitude held towards anybody who uses or trades illegal drugs. I've found that a lot of people are quite supportive of incredibly harsh jail time for drug users and dealers. Terms get used, implying that the individual in question should be executed, or thrown in jail, with no real consideration for justice. But society as a whole seems to have a rather dangerous view towards criminals.
The willingness to make a judgement on ignorance and brand these people as below human is a very, very dangerous thing. Because when we can block out a minority's humanity, bad things always happen. Let me demonstrate.
"God I hate those drug users and dealers! They cause all the problems in society; the prostitution, crime, and all that money that they suck up from the government too! They're absolute scum, we should chuck them all in jail and throw away the key! Why can't the government just arrest those drug dependant rats and remove them from our society?! All those lawyers and cops do is sit around and hand out light sentences while those druggies continue to suck money out of society like the parasites they are!"
And now, replace any terms synonymous with drug user/dealer with the word Jew(s).
We may see those judges as slack sometimes, but I sure as hell hope they're more enlightened than the rest of the populace. We need to overcome that primal urge to judge in ignorance, and to keep an open mind to all things. Even the things we consider evil and have been taught to consider evil.
I was on 420chan earlier, but really, I'm glad I left. I want a community where people are more cautious as to what they say, and where people pay each other the respect they should. This is simply unachievable on an imageboard with mods that simply love to be a bunch of unfunny faggots.
I have an issue to raise...what scares me about the current state of society, is the attitude held towards anybody who uses or trades illegal drugs. I've found that a lot of people are quite supportive of incredibly harsh jail time for drug users and dealers. Terms get used, implying that the individual in question should be executed, or thrown in jail, with no real consideration for justice. But society as a whole seems to have a rather dangerous view towards criminals.
The willingness to make a judgement on ignorance and brand these people as below human is a very, very dangerous thing. Because when we can block out a minority's humanity, bad things always happen. Let me demonstrate.
"God I hate those drug users and dealers! They cause all the problems in society; the prostitution, crime, and all that money that they suck up from the government too! They're absolute scum, we should chuck them all in jail and throw away the key! Why can't the government just arrest those drug dependant rats and remove them from our society?! All those lawyers and cops do is sit around and hand out light sentences while those druggies continue to suck money out of society like the parasites they are!"
And now, replace any terms synonymous with drug user/dealer with the word Jew(s).
We may see those judges as slack sometimes, but I sure as hell hope they're more enlightened than the rest of the populace. We need to overcome that primal urge to judge in ignorance, and to keep an open mind to all things. Even the things we consider evil and have been taught to consider evil.
I was on 420chan earlier, but really, I'm glad I left. I want a community where people are more cautious as to what they say, and where people pay each other the respect they should. This is simply unachievable on an imageboard with mods that simply love to be a bunch of unfunny faggots.
