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The latest in spammers: Smoke a joint!

One thing about having a large(ish) number of blog visitors: it attracts a large number of spam comments.

Comments spam comes in waves. There are the sex spammers (including the Eskimo sex people, and no, I didn’t check them out), the medication spammers (Viagra, tranquilizers, painkillers, anti-depressants), the dating sites, and the get-rich-quick spammers. You get them in bunches.

Today’s wave of spammers? Smoke-a-joint spammers!

What the hey?

I don’t smoke pot (actually, I don’t smoke at all). Smoke gives me a huge headache. And like the rest of the spam, I’m not interested at all in any of it.

*cough* *cough*

Is it because of this?

It seems part of the popularity of marijuana questions was fueled by NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which was urging its members to vote for questions supporting the legalization of cannabis.

So now we have a group canvassing for legalizing yet another drug.

Picture, if you may, people driving 90 miles an hour on the NJ Turnpike while smoking pot because it’s legal… and because pot relaxes you in a stressful situation, like turnpike traffic.

If that doesn’t give you a headache, I don’t know what would.

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  1. Gee, I dunno. We already have laws against driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs, and whether or not marijuana is legalized, I don’t see those laws going away. (I’d really like to see them enforced more rigorously here, the way they do it in Scandinavia.)

    Since the beginning of time, humans have found ways to intoxicate themselves by using plant-derived materials. And most societies, with varying degrees of success, try to repress that sort of behavior. I wonder whether the cure is worse than the disease…

    …but for sure, spamming is not a good way to get me to support whatever your cause may happen to be.

  2. I highly doubt driving stoned and/or 90 mph on the NJ Turnpike will ever be legal, even if pot were legalized.

  3. > people driving … while smoking pot

    Alcohol – legal.
    Driving after alchol – illegal.

    > 90mph

    Cops often detect people who are high due to the fact that they’re driving 5 (five!) mph and think they are going too fast.

  4. Pot should be legalized for the simple reason is that when the economy finally collapses and we are all warriors of the wasteland will be able to find the stoners because they will be sitting around giggling, discussing Dylan (the one from Hibbing) and having that enlightened vibe. Then we catch them, put them on skewers with organic tomatos and have dinner. Never hurts to be prepared!