Music in my ears

[charliesmum]

I really want an iPod, and can't afford one. Tragic, no?

I think I might tell my family to just chip in and buy me one for Christmas. Thing is, I don't often get to listen to music. Though I could fool myself into thinking I'd start exersising because I'll have the music to distract me. Or something.

Currently I'm listening to my MP3 player, which I do love, because over at house_music this lovely person made MP3s of songs from the show House, and I was able to get the ones I like on my player. My player, however, only holds a few songs, not the bazillion an iPod holds.

Question for ya'all.

Pot smoking. There was this post on buddhists and the guy was basically wondering if it would go against his practise to 'keep his friend company' by smoking pot, or something. Some people took me to task for pointing out that, whatever one's personal view, pot is illegal, and therefore you could be messing with your karma by going against the 'right thinking' thing. Many people pointed out that some laws are meant to be broken. Frankly I don't think a bunch of people smoking pot constitutes civil disobedience, but maybe my own experiences are colouring my opinion. What do you think?

I just think, by a certain age, one should outgrow things like drinking to excess* and smoking pot. And I do think one could have a couple of glasses of wine and be fine, but smoking pot immediately impairs you.

Anyhoodles, what are your opinions?

*not to say one still can't do that on occasion - one suffers for it more than one did when one was young

Comments

[carlanime.livejournal.com]

While I don't personally smoke pot (or anything else--I had asthma in my teens, and smoke disagrees with me; I can't even be in the same room with cigarette smoke), I see where they're coming from on the "civil disobedience" thing. The history of how marijuana (which I may be spelling wrong) became illegal is disturbing at best, and features a lot of big-company coersion (Dupont) and racist slurs. The current use of marijuana laws to rope in "minor criminals" for possession and frighten them into testifying appals me, both for its disrespectful treatment of those people and the damage it does to the ideals of our justice system. I'm not happy that Canadian police work often resorts to intimidation and "eyewitness" testimony from semi-stoned vulnerable street people; I would infinitely prefer Canada's courts to rely on physical evidence.

So I personally do support decriminalization, although I don't use pot and have actually had the experience of being the only completely sober person at a rally. Yes, I know: I'm no fun. Go me. :)