<p>^^ Not sure how that would be like the death penalty o.O</p>
<p>I think weed should be legalized, nothing else though. I’m no stoner or anything, but weed is safer than alcohol, and if taxed could bring in some good money. You can’t OD on weed, and you become more calm after smoking, unlike alcohol which could potentially make you very angry.</p>
<p>My views are all over the place, really. My main gripe about regulating drugs so heavily is that it just invites people to still take the risk and try it (if I tell you not to think of a purple hippo, you’re bound to think of a purple hippo). Humans are instinctively prone to doing the opposite of what’s been deemed “bad.” But, I also think that certain drugs (meth comes to mind) are still so blatantly bad for someone that they should be off-limits. Though, for example, if the government were to lift the ban on cannabis and cannabis only, that probably could lessen the consumption of other, relatively dangerous drugs. When it comes down to the brute basics, drugs are only used because humans naturally need a vice of some sort, a “chill” factor per se. That can range from alcohol to meth. With the availability of cannabis, less people would consume riskier drugs, and the lack of the ban itself would take away the risk of smoking weed due to the fact that there would be an extremely small chance of receiving “tampered materials” (PCP laced cannabis, for example. It’s a bit of a problem today). Economically, it probably could benefit the federal government if they were to impose a tax on it, but that’s a clich</p>
<p>I was making a comparion saying just like crime wouldn’t change with death penalty, its possible that neither would the amount of drug use. People are entitled to their own decisions and if they do drugs, they would do it with or without laws in place.</p>
<p>Sent from my SPH-M920 using CC</p>
<p>Dfree I don’t understand you! On other threads you act like you get stoned all the time, and others you act like you don’t do any drugs. Haha, not that it matters or anything, I’m just a little confused.</p>
<p>I guess there is a big difference between being a stoner and smoking on occasion if that’s what your trying to emphasize.</p>
<p>I’m with helloel. Explain yourself! XD</p>
<p>It seems like he implied that he had done/does weed but he isn’t your token stoner (apathetic, passionate only about weed, etc.). There’s a fine line between getting stoned and being a stoner, imo.</p>
<p>I’m with both of them! Confused too.</p>
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<p>Thanks anaychi, you speak the truth!</p>
<p>If you read the bottom of my post, I said the same exact thing.</p>
<p>The only reason I thought you hadn’t smoked was because of the “cc pot and alcohol” thread. Where you called me elitist and all that lol. I just thought you said something like you had never done drugs or something. I don’t remember exactly, maybe you never said that, that’s just the only reason I thought that. Haha, I am well aware of the difference between being a stoner and getting high occasionally.</p>
<p>Ah sorry, I must have missed that. I made those posts in the “cc pot and alcohol” thread cause I didn’t want to come off as a stoner. I have since realized that I don’t care what people think of me on CC lol. Sorry for whatever I called you in that thread, I tend to get carried away in online arguments…</p>
<p>Sorry, Elizabeth! Didn’t see that on your post when I posted.</p>
<p>Dfree: Haha it’s alright. You scared the heck out of me though on that thread lol. I honestly didn’t know what I said, but I guess it’s possible that I come off as a little elitist over the Internet.</p>
<p>Anay, haha it’s fine I was just trying to show dfree that.</p>
<p>I think most CC users naturally come off as elitist. Being part of the “upper-crust” of your grade makes that into a natural trait.</p>
<p>I see dfree, saying you didn’t do drugs in order to make your argument better, very clever haha.</p>
<p>Reminds me of when that Asian girl tried to say she was black after she made a racist thread. But that’s entirely different, you were just trying to get people to listen to you without judging you.</p>
<p>I came across something a few days that I think you guys would find relatively interesting: [Stanford</a> prison experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment]Stanford”>Stanford prison experiment - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>“The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard.”</p>
<p>“The participants adapted to their roles well beyond what even Zimbardo himself expected, leading the officers to display authoritarian measures and ultimately to subject some of the prisoners to torture. In turn, many of the prisoners developed passive attitudes and accepted physical abuse, and, at the request of the guards, readily inflicted punishment on other prisoners who attempted to stop it.”</p>
<p>I think that’s just natural human behavior. If you give an average joe an ounce of power, they will take it use it. </p>
<p>On a random note… my calc teacher presented the idea to our class that for the next quiz the class will be broken up into 2 teams. The winning team gets about 3 points added to their quiz, the losers lose 3. My teacher kind of wants to run an experiment to see how (if) the grades are effected. We think that the team factor will be an added incentive to study, which makes sense. He also told us of some experiment from some college where the professor averaged the entire class’ grades for a semester. Apparently they started out at a B, and then gradually dropped down to an F by the end of the semester. What do you guys think of this?</p>
<p>^^By any chance did you study that in AP Psychology? o.0</p>
<p>Actually, I found that on Quora (some would call it the thinking man’s Yahoo Answers): <a href=“http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-most-interesting-psychology-experiments[/url]”>http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-most-interesting-psychology-experiments</a> I plan on taking AP Psych next year. Psych truly fascinates me.</p>
<p>dfree: If I wasn’t so protective of my grades, I would think that such an experiment would be fantastic to try. I applaud your teacher for the idea, I would love to hear the results.</p>
<p>@dfree: Some class average tends to drops especially if people start high grades and then start procrastinating.</p>
<p>That’s true, but a B to F change is huge, and the difficulty of material didn’t change.</p>