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In reply to the discussion: Why the Hell Isn't Biden Ending the Federal War on Cannabis? [View all]NNadir
(34,117 posts)...someone while doing dangerous things while high, only one example of which would be driving stoned, drunk or otherwise wasted.
On the other hand, this is quite the opposite of applauding drug abuse or pretending it's "normal" or NORML or something to be encouraged as if it were innocuous and without consequence.
Objecting to people being in prison for possession of drugs however is not the same as saying that this issue is the most exigent before humanity, or to imply that the President of the United States should focus his attention on it in the face of the other issues on this planet which should need no enumeration.
I'm an old man. I came of age in the era of sex, drugs and rock and roll. I certainly knew my share of stoners.
My generation is leaving a largely destroyed world. I have had no problem with my generation making love, as love not just faceless sex, but the rest of it strikes me as pure self indulgence. We are/were without a doubt, the most self indulgent generation ever to have inhabited this country. We should have and have had better things to whine about than the importance of getting high.
In short, we should have been more.
I will be dead soon enough, and what I think surely doesn't matter, but that said, that's my opinion, anyway.
I think history will not forgive us, nor should it.