Okay, I’ve been watching the promotion of legalizing pot and how it’s being touted as “freedom” from oppressive policies…

While I don’t think it should be criminalized, because it is senseless to put people in jail over it, I also don’t think it is a good thing, either.  I just have to wonder at the motives behind legalizing it–I’m sure that there was a push to get it legalized for business reasons and perhaps a way to “numb the masses”….easier to get stuff passed people when they’re less functional.

The reason is related to how drugs alter the brain and the person’s perception and ultimately harms them.

In a documentary on the sixties, David Crosby said that cocaine is what did them in–cocaine is destructive, and by that, it destroyed the great movement underway.  You can’t fight against the war machine or for the environment or equality if you’re messed up.  The same was said for African Americans and drugs destroying their culture and any dreams they might have had.

I just don’t see any good coming of this.  I’ve already seen where people ignore their responsibilities to get pot, and cause untold grief to those around them (who aren’t smoking pot).  And alcohol does the same thing—but you don’t see it being glorified by news outlets.

If this makes me “uncool” then so be it.  I’m not into being cool, but into safety, health, and good sense, and reigning in excess.