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Most of those reasons are bunk. One of them seems to be "if you smoke it when you're driving, the cops might stop you and won't know what you're smoking is legal".

If you smoke it when driving you are an asshole.

Whether it's legal or not, whether it's real weed or not. Get off the road, get baked in your living room and stay there you dangerous, selfish prick. Also his 'hell' experience? Oh My God he took an unfamiliar substance along with TWICE his usual dose of dextromethorphan. I'm not f*cking surprised he had a hard time.

Most of the other reasons he gives there are to do with people purchasing 'blends' of unknown amounts of unknown chemicals on unknown plant matter. People who want to know what they're dosing themselves with buy the pure powders and measure carefully.

That all said, it's true that there's far more known about the safety profile of the 'real' stuff, and you probably shouldn't touch the synthetics. But not because of that huge pile of toss.




I've never really understood why drugs are often considered as mitigating factors in crimes, rather than (IMO) aggravating ones.


Do you have that backwards? Has drug use ever been considered a mitigating factor? If so, where and when? In the USA, alcohol intoxication is a strong aggravating factor in motor vehicle crimes.


I believe drunkenness has been considered under English law to be a mitigating factor where intent is concerned, though not where the question of the crime itself was concerned. However using drink in getting up the courage to commit a crime is also not allowed - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intoxication_in_English_law

I'm not sure how much this would fly now, as it all seems to have been debated 100 years ago.




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