You can teach a man to fish…
I am a firm believer that Education should rule. If you want someone to do something you make sure they are educated enough to do it. If you have someone working for you, you have to be educated enough to know when they are bullshitting you. If you are not then you better make sure that person has the same goal as you and trust them 100% of the time.
The other day I read an article from Boiled Over and it got me a little upset again. I am very involved in certain issues that are pretty political these days. These leads me to a few things. Medical Marijuana, if you know me this is a very hot topic for me. If you are a politician and you do not think Marijuana should be legalized for medical use make sure you know what you are talking about. As a patient (That will take a drug test for anyone to prove I do not smoke Marijuana) I am going to take the advice of organizations like American College of Physicians not the advice of someone like John McCain. When I am getting ready to vote I am going to think about not only who is most agreeable to my views but also who is a good leader. As a good leader you do not have to know everything you just need to know how to surrond your self with the correct people.
The biggest problem with fighting an issue to the point where you are giving speeches about it is the idiots that want to argue with you. I am all up for someone to come to a speech of mine and say, “I do not agree.” But they better have their facts in order and they better keep opinion out of it. I will not talk about something that I do not know about, therefore you should not either.
I will let you have your opinion and I will let you argue your opinion but I will not allow you to pass off your ignorance as knowledge.
There was a letter to the editor for a Magazine talking about the horrors of Marijuana legalization, “It causes Cancer and people are dying from it. We already have Alcohol and Tobacco, do we need something else.” Of course I had to respond to this LTE with the typical. “Marijuana research shows that it actually decreases the spread of certain types of Cancer. If you take the Crime out of Marijuana and make it available without needing to talk to criminals then people will not die from Marijuana. To overdose on Marijuana you would have to injest your weight in Marijuana in a very fast time frame. I do no because I have never tried but even half my weight, I do not think I could injest 90lbs of anything.”
Of course this leads to the typical, “You Hippies just want to lay on the couch and eat dorritoes all day.”
Like I said before, if you want to argue with me about something then you better come with something a little more than what the D.A.R.E officer in your school taught you. Most of them are now members of LEAP.
We are a free country which is very important, I have my opinion and you have yours, we are allowed that. This however does not mean we are all Intellegent.
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