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so it woudnt be such a big deal if you smoke it… they do it cause they have a long stressfull season and it relaxes them.

is like saying alcohol makes you beat wifes.

it’s all about the person using it.

and by looking at Josh Howard’s results, I’d say he knows how to handle himself.

I don’t really care. And it’s true, most guys in the league probably do smoke pot. Or at least on the Mavericks. It’s not a big deal. Then again I don’t pretend to be the moral police.

However, I really have to question his business acumen when he openly says something like this. This could really kill a lot of lucrative financial opportunities for him.

I think Josh Howard is pretty overrated, but he played well on Thursday (or was it Friday) night.

It has a somewhat more balanced view of this one than bfan’s.

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-32-119/Josh-Howard-Lies-Less-Than-Other-Pot-Smokers.html

Smoking marijuana affects no one except the person doing the smoking. Smoking pot is a totally victimless “crime.” I would much rather have people puffing reefer than drinking alcoholic beverages. When was the last time you heard about marijuana causing someone to be violent or do stupid things like drive at 90 mph? Alcohol kills people every day—probably every minute. It kills the drinker and it kills scores of innocent people. Alcohol is not a victimless crime. (Of course it’s not a crime at all unless you’re underage like Oden. But that isn’t my point. Alcohol creates victims.) So if all you moralists want to denounce a recreational drug then I suggest you direct your vituperation at alcohol and leave pot alone. Pot is the drug of choice of peaceful, contemplative people. Alcohol is often the drug of choice of violent, insufferable egotists.

But in the end I don’t give a rat’s patoot what people do with their lives as long as there are no DIRECT victims. Alcohol creates a fair number of indirect victims, but it’s not like murder or rape or robbery, and in my view people should be allowed to consume it as long as there are regulations designed to protect the public. In other words, as long as the law is the way it is right now. Oden should be allowed to drink (even though he’s underage) so long as he doesn’t harm anybody by doing so.

As for marijuana, well, there’s not even a legitimate debate about it in my view. It should be legal and regulated and taxed, similar to alcohol. And if Josh Howard or Lamar Odom or Rasheed or Reefer LaFrentz want to smoke a dooby in the off season, that is their business and they should be left alone. Let he/she who is without sin cast the first stone. Live and let live. Get the government off people’s backs. If you have a moralistic streak and want to micromanage other people’s lives, then join a religious cult or something where you can find like-minded people and volunteer as one of their brownshirts or thought police. This is America and it’s high time we took back our freedom.

Used to take something called “crank” to clean house. She always did a real good job on the crank. When I aged a bit, she paid me $20 to clean the house, because when it comes to house cleaning, I’m anal as a chicken cracker. It makes me think that she must have paid more than $20 for the crank. Now that I think about it, I should have asked for more money.

I don’t know the point of my post. Just that drugs are bad, and maybe the people who take them there drugs, aren’t that bad.

If you are not in favor of pot, you should watch it. Its all about government propaganda relating to the reefer. It appears our government hated this substance from day 1(likely due its assosiation with Mexico and the immigrants that used it), and now they might be in a little too deep to admit they jumped to conclusions and outlawed a reasonably harmless substance. Give it a chance, its very informative and Woody Harrelson narrates it…

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The usage is mostly private or with friends by night. I don´t smoke and I don´t go out by night since time ago, so perhaps something is changed.
I haven´t seen people with serious problems with it. I have seen lifes completly destroyed by heroin, every person using heroin will suffer a lot and do suffer his family. They become slaves of the drug because the drug stole their lifes and then there is only more drug to go on. Soft drugs have an impact depending the people who use it, like happens with alcohol, IMHO, and I agree that alcohol can be more dangerous. There is a talk about the danger to be involved in the way to hard drugs consumption, but what I know it is more about the friends (with friends like those who needs enemies?) that introduce other persons to consumption.