yeah but you're completely missing my point re: alcohol and furthermore you're choosing to ignore its PROVEN effects just because you've never had to personally deal with it in your life. you can't truly predict what effect alcohol will have on you either but i rarely hear anti-green people mention this. you keep saying you can't respect people who do it 'just to get high' but again, you seem to have no problem with people who drink 'just to get drunk'. in fact, i assume when/if you go out drinking, you have the eventual aim of at least becoming tipsy, but please correct me if i'm wrong. if your body is a temple and you don't pump it with toxins then more power to you. so why exactly is there this double standard? in sheer numbers AND proportionately to the number of users, alcohol causes more health problems, causes more family breakdowns, is often more of a financial pressure, not to mention road accidents, acts of violence etc.
not being personally affected by alcohol is no excuse to feel you can lecture on one and not the other. for the record my family etc has been affected by both, and i recognise that drugs can be very, very dangerous.you can't say 'alcohol is fine as long as you don't get addicted, but weed is always bad [except for certain medicinal purposes]'. yes the body can GENERALLY metabolise away and recover from a night of heavy drinking but just like weed, factors can come into play where that one night could be very damaging. and these are not links which have been hypothised but not proven - these are proven medical links, accepted by the medical community more or less unanimously. additionally, the way you're talking about weed is like everyone who smokes is a habitual/addictive user, which just isn't the case! the majority of pot smokers indulge occasionally or rarely. whereas, again, with alcohol, it may only be a minority of people who are technically addicted, but alcohol users are much more likely to binge drink on an average of once a week and drink throughout the week. whatever you say about your liver's metabolising ability, these things do add up over a period of time. pretty stupid risk in the long run 'just to get drunk'.
your dad probably did have a predisposition to epilepsy, it often doesn't emerge until late in life - i've known of 70yos suddenly having seizures. i'm not denying that his marijuana use may have had something to do with it, but the fact remains that it can't be proven and it could've just have easily been triggered by a number of other factors! and for the record, unless he's constantly getting seizures and can't control the condition via medication... yes it's a sucky thing to have, i wish i didn't have it, but it is by no means a life wrecker. again, correct me if i'm wrong, i know nothing about what types of seizures your dad gets (grand mal, petit mal, absence etc) or their frequency or severity, so this is mostly assumption. if i'm wrong and it's really debilitating, i apologise.
for the record, for everything i'm saying about alcohol, i drink and i recognise my hypocrisy. however i usually only mention this in regards to people who lecture about marijuana, because there is usually such a latent double standard in play, as you've admitted to having.
i'm not personally offended by anything you're saying for the record, but like i said, most people who spout what you're spouting just have such double standards! at the end of the day i do get your point, but i still think it's retarded to label all recreational weed users as dropkicks without acknowledging the more prevalent and more importantly proven ill-effects of alcohol.
