I hope your bro stays of it too, Lexi.

I knew a "Donna" several years, from an infamous family (infamous that is for a family tragedy) that everyone here would have heard of. She was an addict, only pot, but she was/is one of the loveliest people I've known.
I smoked a bit when I was younger but never really liked it and never tried anything stronger (though I always regret not trying LSD after reading Huxley's "The Doors of Perception").

I hope the author of this thread will show up and address some of the issues. Poirot has summed up my position perfectly. The Aboriginal community is another case in point; a profoundly dysfunctional community which, of course, the racists can easily write off as their fault.

It must be good to always have someone else to blame for the poor choices one makes in life.

People raised in a city dump that serves as home and work, without the benefits of social security and Medicare, can retain their pride and be happy, aspiring to better things and succeeding through hard work and education.

Others can be raised in a delightful country town with social security, free health care and fully assisted education if they want it, focus instead on converting their environment into a rubbish tip with theft, abuse and beatings for anyone silly enough to visit. The people who lived in country towns always had very moderate incomes and many lived subsistence lives. What has changed?

Booze use is choice too, for most people it presents no problem. The best we can do is model appropriate behaviour at home and have chats with children as they are growing up about such things as binge drinking and attempting to solve problems with booze.

Question.....Why can you not make a THC Beer? Rules and restrictions will apply, but think of the non alcohol fueled peace that would transpire. Some cultures thrive on the medical THC.....cures all the basic systems of stress disorders, with minimal side effects that alcohol cant compete with.

Alcohol causes more damage to families and social events than any other substance. Its a DRUG! and its no different to any other that can be equally abused by its user.

Why is the Government so afraid of peaceful society?

THC......is one of the most controversial subjects, and Iam quite apprehensive in saying that much, however as a substitute for violent and problems drinkers......it would be a god-send to the one's that suffer in the families mentioned.

Still a ban-aid solution, but better a peaceful person with a problem, than one filled with alcohol.

Thank Q

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Deep Blue <"Alcohol causes more damage to families and social events than any other substance. Its a DRUG! and its no different to any other that can be equally abused by its user.
Why is the Government so afraid of peaceful society?"

Yes alcohol is the cause of much heartache in our society, and it is a drug. However, it is a legal drug, and it is safe for human consumption in small amounts.

No government is going to stop the many law-abiding citizens who have their glass of wine with their evening meal, just because of the idiots who abuse alcohol.

Tobacco, on the other hand, has NO safe level of use, and that is why there are moves to stamp it out. And rightly so.

Alcohol addiction is a sickness, and should be treated as such.
Maybe we need more affordable alcohol treatment centres, where Doctors are given the power to 'commit' repeat offenders for treatment, much the same way as seriously mentally ill people can be committed to psychiatric institutions.

The current thinking of simply waiting for alcoholics to see the error of their ways and present themselves for treatment is obviously failing.

nasty?...blame it on the topic

[not sure what the reason..for your link is blue]

booze is every where...[even in church]
jesus drank booze..but in saying so
said from now on..he would only be drinking new-wine..[ie grape-juice]...

mainly because juice..dont rot/ferm-meant in heaven..into booze.

in hell they can copy the taste of it
but not the affect...

so the thing is...when we die..thats it..
last drinks..no more fermented poisen from then on..

sure there are 'ways/means'..to make others drink 'for us'
but this is a sure way..to earn a deeper level of hell..

this destructive addiction has been subverting human will
so much so...even in church they adminester a dose of it...[but worse call 'it' jesus blood]...

presumably based-on the so called first miracle..of turning toilet water into whine...[or serving the best whine from a toilet]

but i have repeatedly explained
the true teachings for that..'miracle'

so will let the issue go...

[the truism of never argue with a drunk..seems a good wisdom]
much of the vile that results from booze..is others judging others
[never make moral judgnments on any drunk..they dont see the joke is them]

please dont take this personally...[i have had drinks..and will likely have more drinks before i die]..but can easilly go years without the junk...

so dont think im attacking everyone..'but' me..

i just refuse to defend it
because its ab-use is indefensable...

yes your ok
but many arnt..

yes its no problem..[for you]..
but for so many others..it is the root-cause..
od too much..of whats wrong with this world..

or maybe rather
the drunks..trying to lord it over the rest of us
by seeing the faults in others ..but not in themselves

govt has no role in outlawing[nor taxing]..any addict
be it smokers pillpoppers or boozers..

or gambelers..or simply those needing a bit of perversion
sure offer them help..but dont be making money out of them
its shall carry its curse..over, to whatever the money ..is trying to fix

one under god:

You have summed it all up ; miles ahead of the crowd as usual, well done.