<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Dirty Harry:
You don't have the right to do drugs because it is illegal, it is one's duty to obey the law. Unfourtunately the law isn't always correct. That's why people like getupkids are still breathing. If the law were always correct his parents wouldn't have been able to reproduce.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
That's a really good point. If everyone who has done drugs got in trouble, most of our parents would have criminal records. Heck, most of the generation before us would. It was acceptable behavior in the 60's and 70's, whether illegal or not.
Kind of like the thing with Fulkerson and the B-Ball and Football teams. He knows people from those teams get drunk all the time, but he doesn't do anything. Because he knows, one way or another, people are still going to continue to do what they want to do. That and the fact that sports are WAY too highly regarded at WCHS.
And Rufus, you're actually wrong about more wrong than right coming from it. Sure, I'll admit, the harder drugs DO cause lots of problems, but those are also just dumb. But my friend has a book about the history of marijuana, and it goes into detail how helpful the plant actually is. Not only being used as a drug, but also just the many uses of the plant. It gave a statistic saying that marijuana plants could provide enough energy for America for the next few hundred years. As in, it could replace fossil fuels and burn more efficiently. Not only that, but we don't have to wait millions of years for it to become a usable substance. I'm not sure if that is the exact statistic, but it is something really close to that.
In closing, I'm not saying that everyone should go out and always get high and booze up and shit. But I believe that our government and school are overeacting on an issue that really isn't that detrimental to society. I guess we should just stand back and see what happens to Canada, and let them stand as an example of how harmless this topic is.
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