Comments on: Two Points of View about Marijuana https://www.isegoria.net/2014/01/two-points-of-view-about-marijuana/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 28 May 2026 23:08:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Magus Janus https://www.isegoria.net/2014/01/two-points-of-view-about-marijuana/comment-page-1/#comment-1112263 Magus Janus Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:34:48 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=33936#comment-1112263 Confounding factor: the type of person who smokes marijuana (despite its illegality and remaining, albeit small, social opprobrium) is also the type of person who is more likely to do hard drugs.

I.e. it is not because of the pot that someone goes on to harder drugs, but rather because that person was genetically predisposed (or socially) to always do that in the first place.

]]> By: Alrenous https://www.isegoria.net/2014/01/two-points-of-view-about-marijuana/comment-page-1/#comment-1110835 Alrenous Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:27:30 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=33936#comment-1110835 The third perspective is that mind-altering drugs are Satanic. Only reason alcohol isn’t banned is because it didn’t take, and nicotine is tolerated because it isn’t that mind altering.

Of course ‘are Satanic’ is just an excuse, and it’s debatable what the core motivation is. Atheists say it’s the puritan prejudice against enjoying yourself. Jim would say it’s about being mean to low status males.

A hardcore HBD adherent would say drug use is all genetic anyway. That they’re middle class is 99% of what keeps them off drugs or going into a death spiral if they do use them.

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