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[Bob Gray]

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Not sure where it's best to post this, but a very interesting perspective on marijuana from a career high school teacher I saw over on Facebook:

“I hate pot. I hate it even more than hard drugs. I’ve taught high school for 25 years and I hate what marijuana does to my students. It goes beyond missing homework assignments. My students become less curious when they start smoking pot. I’ve seen it time and time again. People say pot makes you more creative, but from what I’ve seen, it narrows my students' minds until they only reference the world in relation to the drug. They’ll say things like: “I went to the beach and got so high,” or “I went to a concert and got so high.” They start choosing their friends based on the drug. I hate when people say that it’s just experimenting. Because from what I’ve seen, it’s when my students stop experimenting.”

[joecct]

What does the Pope's visit have to do with the VW situation?

New thought. I did not realize that VW had taken over the thread. Sorry for my ignorance.

[goldy_331]

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New thought. I did not realize that VW had taken over the thread. Sorry for my ignorance.

It was you quoting the item about VW and then posting something about the Pope that was confusing.

[joecct]

It was you quoting the item about VW and then posting something about the Pope that was confusing.

I didn't quote anyone.

Oops! I did. Sorry. ÷_€€%=€#//#& android phones

[St. Clown]

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I didn't quote anyone.

Oops! I did. Sorry. ÷_€€%=€#//#& android phones

Get a Mac!

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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“I hate it even more than hard drugs.”

This person sounds like someone who has never seen a hard drug user or chronic alcoholic in their entire life. Just sayin'.

[bigblue_dl]

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Get a Mac!

Why would he want to make it worse?

And reading more about this VW stuff, they're ****ed. 11 million cars worldwide? They not only have EPA issues, they'll have EU problems too. To knowingly circumvent regulations to this extent is blatant disregard for the law, and I can't imagine that the EPA is going to take it anything close to lightly.

[Jimjamesak]

Why would he want to make it worse?

And reading more about this VW stuff, they're ****ed. 11 million cars worldwide? They not only have EPA issues, they'll have EU problems too. To knowingly circumvent regulations to this extent is blatant disregard for the law, and I can't imagine that the EPA is going to take it anything close to lightly.

Karma is already getting to VW. Wolfsburg is losing to Bayern Munich 5-1...

[joecct]

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karma is already getting to vw. Wolfsburg is losing to bayern munichlewandowski 5-1...

:d

fyp

[St. Clown]

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Why would he want to make it worse?

Just rehashing the joke of when people have issues with a PC, it's the inevitable response. I thought it would be funny here as he's running an Android phone and a Mac is certainly not a phone.

And reading more about this VW stuff, they're ****ed. 11 million cars worldwide? They not only have EPA issues, they'll have EU problems too. To knowingly circumvent regulations to this extent is blatant disregard for the law, and I can't imagine that the EPA is going to take it anything close to lightly.

I'm thinking Germany might step in through back channels to make a plea with the EPA to not be too hard on VW. The company is huge in Germany, like 1960s GM big for the US equivalent. It could seriously damage an already shaky European economy.

[Bob Gray]

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This person sounds like someone who has never seen a hard drug user or chronic alcoholic in their entire life. Just sayin'.

I think it's his way of saying that he hates the insidious nature of marijuana and its social acceptance in comparison to (at least for now) society still largely rejecting hard drugs. Not that that's the main point of what is being said.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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I think it's his way of saying that he hates the insidious nature of marijuana and its social acceptance in comparison to (at least for now) society still largely rejecting hard drugs. Not that that's the main point of what is being said.

Fair enough.

[Jimjamesak]

fyp

Thanks. It was bb_dl, I was already trolling enough.

[Kepler]

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I think it's his way of saying that he hates the insidious nature of marijuana and its social acceptance in comparison to (at least for now) society still largely rejecting hard drugs. Not that that's the main point of what is being said.

I agree with that interpretation, though I think he's wrong. My Mom (wow, twice in one day) was an RN who worked with alcoholics and hard drug users, and she used to say that alcohol was actually far more destructive because (1) it was always there as a legal temptation even when the patient was released back into society, and (2) because alcoholics were erroneously considered "in recovery," whereas addicts were always (correctly) considered "in remission."

[Bob Gray]

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I agree with that interpretation, though I think he's wrong. My Mom (wow, twice in one day) was an RN who worked with alcoholics and hard drug users, and she used to say that alcohol was actually far more destructive because (1) it was always there as a legal temptation even when the patient was released back into society, and (2) because alcoholics were erroneously considered "in recovery," whereas addicts were always (correctly) considered "in remission."

I wouldn't say, as this person did, that marijuana is worse than hard drugs as a general proposition, but again, the main point was marijuana's negative effect on students, not a debate of which is worse. If this person exaggerated a little in saying hard drugs aren't as bad, that's a minor foible in making the overall point they make.