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You can tell someone's position on smoking by asking about what he thinks about marijuana. Almost always (and I know there's gonna be a few libertarians here who are the exception), if someone is very pro-marijuana, he's very anti-smoking.
Who exactly is responsible if you decide to ingest substances or inhale fumes, and then you have a 'psychotic break' and murder someone else? If marijuana causes psychosis in some people, as it does, then maybe that risk should be on the person taking it and not on innocent bystanders.
Also, why does this have -4 downvotes? Potheads, trolls or are there actually legitimate reasons? I'd say the title isn't great for not being descriptive, but not enough to merit a downvote.
Michael Knowles was talking today about how tobacco/nicotine was right-coded and mj was left-coded.
The high level, and probably backwards rationalizing, explanation is that nicotine makes people more active and productive and thin, while marijuana makes people passive and lazy and fat. The left-leaning technocrats want a passive and submissive population while the right-leaning individuals (there are no right-leaning elites) want an energized and engaged population.
Look at he people who are for and against each and it mostly tracks.
I'm a right wing pothead. I know lots of people like myself.
I don't think your thought process is wrong. I think your data set is too narrow and its causing you to come to that conclusion. The majority of users are from the realm of "I do what the tv tells me" and those people aren't left or right. We would have to boil down who exists outside of that group and why they think the way they do.
This is not a rant against you. I just wanted to comment on the subject you brought up.
Feel free to rant against me.
I don't have a data set, I'm just theorycrafting. Generalizations don't rule out exceptions.
For the downvotes there's at least a handful that are militantly against screenshot posts of headlines/tweets instead of proper archive links. That might account for a couple.
The downvotes and castigation will continue until the behavior improves, but I only just got home so those were from someone else.
Perhaps, but there's a lot of screenshotting, and I don't see a ratio as bad as 5/-4 a lot. This one had a suspiciously large number of downvotes, coinciding with the increased presence of some trolls (real trolls, not people who disagree with someone).
I didn't downvote, but half the time I do if the title specifically mentions a user here.