Honestly, man, most of your family's critiques are very hypocritical. Your aunt consistently attacks your experience and knowledge, saying things like "you read things and make these decisions from your room", yet she never shows her own qualification on the subject. Has she ever smoked weed? At what point did being "out there" as an FBI agent teach her more than reading what a trained scientist has to say? She repeatedly asks you "should we legalize heroin, cocaine...?" You should respond by explaining to her that the LD50 of marijuana is over 10,000 times the avg dose needed to get someone high. It is physically impossible to OD on THC (Even if it could be directly injected into the bloodstream, you would die from blood dilution before you died from toxicity). That is the difference between MJ and drugs like heroin and coke. For that matter, ask her "should we outlaw alcohol?" How many people has she arrested over bar fights, drunk driving, etc.? How many alcohol poisonings has she seen? I love the comment about providing medical proof. Aside from there being no such thing (only theories), her federal government has outlawed MJ research by scheduling it as a drug with NO MEDICAL USES. I guess anybody who has passed out while high (sleep aid), gotten the munchies (appetite stimulant), gotten high while hurt (painkiller), gotten over nausea (anti-emetic), or used it for glaucoma (decreases optical pressure behind the retina) is hallucinating.
One more thing. Tell your family that if they are going to get on a high horse (pun intended) and claim to be more experienced, intelligent, and mature, they should learn to argue without being pedantic. Mature adults know that acting superior and talking down to someone rarely gets your message through. Their posts are clearly not meant to teach you a lesson, but rather to make themselves feel better about a subject they don't understand at all. Calling you "little man" is like you saying "You don't understand, old woman." It's disrespectful and pointless. Maybe we smokers should argue like children - apparently, that's what non-smokers respond to. For the record, I'm sorry, i am not trying to insult your family, it just pisses me off when people act so superior when they are so clueless. Having worked in clubs and for growers in the past, I have a ton of information on this subject. If you need any ammo for the argument, PM me.
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