Talk:Guilty/@comment-31077845-20170227032410

Dawg, before I say this let me just mention I've been through the substance abuse mill, am writing this drunk, and have been through a stint in rehab. I barely have any veins left because I've collapsed quite a number of them and I have done, more times than I can count, probably more drugs than you even know exist (when you include the research chemicals along with all the popular "normal" soft and hard ones) and I'm still going to say that if I wanted to read a rant about how horrible the war on drugs, especially weed, was, I'd head over to NORML. Weed to me is so normal that if my family saw me smoking it, they'd be thankful because it meant I probably wasn't doing anything else. I'm almost on the brink of wondering if this is meant to be satirical or not, but judging by the venue and the audience I'm pretty sure it's a completely earnest attempt to show how a clueless teenager thinks of the war on drugs.

Yeah, cops have shot people's dogs for no reason before. Yes, it's horrible. Yes, marijuana should be legalized, and we're working our way there, but the cops randomly busting in and shooting a bunch of puppies and a little girl for no reason sounds like something a person couldn't possibly make up without going for the most ludicrous over the top depiction of the topic they could think of. And speaking of experiences I've been bad enough I got kicked out and was homeless, although for only about 6 months, and I gotta tell you, it was some of the best fed I've ever been. Sure, I was in withdrawal most of the time and that made it miserable, but you can walk into probably 7/10 establishments and say "hey, I'm homeless and so hungry, can you help me out?" and they'll hook you up with anything from a bag of chips to a full sized meal, and that's not even including the soup kitchens and homeless shelters that, between them, cook you breakfast lunch and dinner. People hate to see homeless people suffer, but they also know, generally accurately, that they're homeless because they're addicts, so giving money is a bit of a divisive topic (I do, because I don't care if they're spending it on food or drugs, whatever they feel will provide them most relief from their miserable lives) but I know almost no one who won't give food to the homeless.