It happens all the time! And not just people with drug (illegal, prescription, alcohol, tobacco) addictions, but people with gambling addiction as well.

Bloody tourists, they're all the same.

Nevertheless, I stand by my statement about "the going theory".

Your argument that drugs don't ruin everyone's life is valid. I don't see why you feel the need to persuade other people that they should risk letting it ruin their lives because it doesn't ruin everyone's.

I have to go, but I may or may not reply more fully later

Update:

Bah, the marijuana didn't help. It just made me really paranoid for about 45 minutes. Then I got dry mouth and the munchies. Definitely not conducive to sleep. In fact, I got the exact opposite of what I wanted.

Well, it was worth a try.

If sleep is all you want then do this... Go for a walk at night... Stay away from blue lights, tv's and computer monitors. Blue light signals certain reactions in the body that won't give you a good nights sleep... A long walk will no doubt tire you out, make you thirsty and possibly give you the munchies. Marijuana will just make you lazy and not necessarily tired...

Good.

Eh? What? Where do I say that?
Look again. All I say is that drug use does not inevitably lead to drug abuse, but people have this knee-jerk reaction where they equate the two. And that's stupid.

Which doesn't necessarily help if you have insomnia. You can be dead tired and not fall asleep. A friend of mine has it.

It can help you relax, which may be what you need to go to sleep.

Statistics are everything in the case against Marijuana. There are no bad statistics about marijuana in comparison to any other recreational drug available, even the legal ones like salvia, pods, alcohol, etc.

The reason Marijuana is illegal is because it has statistically bad effects on the qualities that make you a useful person to the group. You are slower, eat a lot, lazy, and it has general dissociative effects causing you to lack a higher order of understanding while on the drug. It is more difficult to regulate because it is easy to reproduce, which is why governments don't take it over and make tax from it, unlike alcohol.

Marijuana being illegal isn't a big deal, at least here in Ontario. I'd rather get caught with an ounce of pot than get caught speeding 50kmph over the limit.

I've never grown any marijuana (and don't plan on doing it either), but I've done a fair bit of homebrewing - and I have a hard time imagining that growing pot could be easier than making alcohol.
Something containing sugar + water + yeast + leave it alone for a couple of weeks = C₂H₅OH.

Making decent beer is tricky, but anyone can make a perfectly drinkable mead.

I know you can make some decent beer with pretty low startup costs, but if you wanted to do a batch of 24 cases of 24 bottles it's going to take far more preparation.

You can grow pot by planting seeds in your backyard here. You don't do anything else until it's done growing. Then you just need to yank them (growing pot indoors is also easy but is a 5 minute daily task for about 3 months).

In my area, Lambton County, Ontario, it's impossible to detect. There is a lot of bush land that is teeming with pot.

It's culturally acceptable (which is wrong), but it is NOT difficult to make alcohol or tobacco illegal.

Tobacco is becoming illegal without any difficulty here in Ontario. You cannot smoke in your car with your kids here, or in public places, and you cannot advertise that you sell tobacco or display it in your stores.

Alcohol will not see the same treatment because the tax revenues are too high and the health effects are not serious enough to cost the country money (like tobacco does).

Steps to make alcohol illegal (2-5 year break between steps):
1) Reduce maximum alcohol content to 40% (from 75% I think).
2) Raise age limit to 21 (from 19)
3) Increase taxes as well as significantly increasing licensing costs.
4) Increase penalties regarding alcohol related crimes.
5) Ban alcohol advertising to the public.
6) Reduce the amount of alcohol one person may purchase.

Then if you want to go further, you just keep bumping up those steps slowly. The trick is to make it unacceptable first, then make it illegal.

..but that's going to cost more money, so that doesn't make any sense.

1) While you can get stronger stuff, vodka in EU is 38% or so.
2) In place (not sure about light alcohols like beer and cider which might still be 18), although schoolkids can always get alcohol if they are motivated enough.
3) Done (I haven't drunk beer all winter and it seems it has become 1/4 more expensive in the meantime).
4) Should be in place.
5) This has been attempted, and advertising should be at least restricted.
6) As much as you can carry

These steps (including restricting where alcohol can be consumed) don't seem to have much effect on alcohol consumption. Perhaps higher taxes can cut back some consumption (but also activate the black market, and real homeless drunkards consume things like cheap Eau-de-Cologne anyway).

Even easier than making your own zip gun

I've never particularily liked that one and haven't really listened to the lyrics.

You're right of course. Creepy.

But vodka jelzin comes in a bag-in-box version