Philosoraptor
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Wed Oct-18-06 03:23 AM
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Cig smokers shouldn't whine while so many are imprisoned over Pot |
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I get tired of hearing about how put upon or persecuted cigarette smokers are when there are millions who have been jailed and imprisoned for enjoying a good green smoke.
"I can't light up in a restaurant', boo frikkety hoo, if I want a good smoke I risk going to jail, and so does the guy who gets it for me and so on. I could care less about cigarette smokers rights, I want MY favorite smoke made legal like yours.
I'm jealous, you can go right down to the seven eleven and buy a pack of smokes and smoke it right there in the parking lot, while I have to break the law and risk imprisonment and being outcast from society, but you don't hear me whining about it, because I can't even talk about it.
If people were getting arrested for possessing a cigarette butt or selling a cigarette, I might have some simpatico. I even get looked down upon like a social pariah or crack head, while your habit is legal and somewhat questionable.
Maybe smoking a Marlboro light calms you down, maybe you just enjoy a smoke like me, my choice of smoke calms me down too, so I can relate, but for Winston's sake quit whining about how you are so persecuted just because you can't light up in a restaurant.
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lvx35
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Wed Oct-18-06 03:44 AM
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1. Here's the difference between pot and cigs. |
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I've never been addicted to pot by using it.
Therefore I wouldn't freak out and become enraged for not having it. Therefore the government feels safe in banning pot not cigs. A case of a "government fearing its people" in all the wrong ways... ;)
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Wed Oct-18-06 03:46 AM
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3. what if they tried to take our coffee away? |
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there would be a coffee war.
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Wed Oct-18-06 04:05 AM
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fought by the brigades of pissed off people with messy hair. :0)
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Wed Oct-18-06 03:45 AM
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2. Oh Philosoraptor not this shit again! |
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Good gravy, I can see another 500-answer thread :rofl:
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Wed Oct-18-06 03:47 AM
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4. I don't feel persecuted |
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I just rarely go out to eat anymore.
I'll defend your right to smoke a little weed if you'll defend both our rights to smoke our choice in a smokers restaurant. One in every town is my motto.
With me? :evilgrin:
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Philosoraptor
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Wed Oct-18-06 03:49 AM
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5. a smoker's restaurant is fine with me |
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I feel one should be able to go to a bar and sin by drink and sin by smoke without fear.
Let's both go to a bar and light up.
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Wed Oct-18-06 03:57 AM
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6. Lead the way, I've got the first round |
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What's your pleasure? Mine's JD straight up. I could use it.
:smoke: :toast:
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Wed Oct-18-06 04:00 AM
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7. Hennesy and Hash for me and my date. |
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And a Newcastle chaser, followed by 17 fat ones.
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Wed Oct-18-06 04:05 AM
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Share? Hubby's never tried and I've promised he will before we die. Although with that stash all he'll probably need to do is inhale. :)
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Wed Oct-18-06 04:04 AM
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If there are two causes, and one causes less hurt than another, should we not attempt to fix them both?
(Assuming you are on the side of both mj and cigs)
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Philosoraptor
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Wed Oct-18-06 04:08 AM
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11. smoking is bad for you. |
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right? a normal well adjusted person maybe doesn't even need to suck smoke down his lungs maybe I don't know, I ain't normal. But I support either vice, I just don't like unecessary whining.
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Wed Oct-18-06 04:12 AM
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