Post#140 » by DuckIII » Sat Jun 8, 2019 6:13 pm
Jimmy, your arguments are bad. The “laced weed” argument has already been debunked. Black market sales is what creates that danger.
As for mixing weed and alcohol, the problem is the alcohol whether the weed is there or not. I smoked weed and drank alcohol together, quite a bit, in my youth. As I got older and it became a risk to my career and required more effort to acquire, I stopped smoking weed.
I kept drinking alcohol. Legal. Socially acceptable. Certainly professionally acceptable in my line of work. Became an alcoholic. Got a physical awhile back for an additional life insurance policy and was rejected because my liver enzymes were approximately 15x the maximum limit at which an insurance company will give you a policy. Because anything over that and you are at too high of a risk for death. I wasn’t 1% over the limit, which still would have denied me the policy. I was 1,500% over the limit. I was commiting incremental suicide through drinking.
But I kept drinking. Read an article that said the liver is resilient and can bounce back from alcohol abuse. That was enough rationalization for me. I could always just quit “later.” Objective medical results, doctors and the insurance industry told me I was quite literally killing myself. I was married and had three young kids. Great career. Plenty to lose. Drinking mattered more.
15 months ago I drove my 10 year old son 11 miles to soccer practice, drunk. I had to have someone drive him home for me because I picked up a bottle of bourbon after I dropped him off and couldn’t walk by the time practice was over and it was time to go back and get him. Two days later I went to rehab, quit drinking and now go to AA once a week and am training to be a volunteer addiction counselor.
There are millions of people with alcoholism stories like mine, many of which have a tragically different ending. Alcoholism is a form of insanity, in the end. You might think other things matter to you, but you’ll risk everything you ever cared about, including your own life, to convince yourself you can keep drinking. Your job. Every relationship you have. Your life. The lives of others. Everything you own. Everything.
Marijuana, objectively, scientifically, does not do any of these things to the human body or mind except in extraordinarily rare instances. On the other hand, excessive and repeated alcohol use will virtually certainly lead to addiction and death. And hopefully only the death of the addict, instead of also a family on their way to the movies getting t-boned by a drunk running a light.
It’s okay that you don’t know what you are talking about. But I do know. And I’m here to inform you of what is true.
Once a pickle, never a cucumber again.
