75 words or less

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:01 pm

Last Sunday's Globe ran a story about marijuana decriminalization initiatives in South Shore communities, and invited readers to express our opinions via e-mail in 75 words or less. This being one of the few issues I care about strongly, I took the challenge, and submitted the following letter, which will run in this Sunday's South edition.

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Ask any teen how difficult it is to find marijuana, then tell me with a straight face that criminalizing it keeps it away from young people. If you're serious about controlling drug use, legalize it, regulate its sale, and use the resulting tax windfall for meaningful drug education and treatment. As in the 1920s, prohibition only feeds a black market, wastes enforcement resources, and destroys respect for the law. Marijuana laws have harmed far more lives than the comparatively benign drug they so ineffectively prohibit.

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It was an interesting challenge, boiling my opinion down that far. Give it a try. Write 75 words or less on something you care about.

(If you'd rather argue with my opinion, please start a separate marijuana thread).

Discalced · Post by **Discalced** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:31 pm

Starting a new thread to argue over something in a preexisting thread is unnecessary. According to String Theory, there are only a finite number of possible threads to begin with. And besides, most forums don’t support this type of facist thread hording based on personal whim or fancy. If you want to keep threads dedicated to one specified idea, it would be prudent to not invite would-be hijackers by requesting that they not hijack your thread.

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You're right. It is tough. I couldn't fit it in less than seventy-six words.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:34 pm

Discalced wrote:Starting a new thread to argue over something in a preexisting thread is unnecessary. According to String Theory, there are only a finite number of possible threads to begin with. And besides, most forums don’t support this type of facist thread hording based on personal whim or fancy. If you want to keep threads dedicated to one specified idea, it would be prudent to not invite would-be hijackers by requesting that they not hijack your thread.

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You're right. It is tough. I couldn't fit it in less than seventy-six words.

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dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:40 pm

Well man,I support us being able to use pot man. I remember once man,where I got really stoned on some good stuff man.We just sat around listening to Led Zepplin man. What a trip man!
Then there was that time we got some really good shit man for only $200 a brick man.Too bad that guy got busted man.
H-a-v-e I w-r-o-t-e 7-5 w-o-r-d-s y-e-t m-a-n?
W-o-w.

Discalced · Post by **Discalced** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:43 pm

hepcat wrote:
Discalced wrote:
You're right. It is tough. I couldn't fit it in less than seventy-six words.
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Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:45 pm

The national debt is too big. We should try to reduce it.

There. Only twelve words. What's so hard about that?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:45 pm

Discalced wrote:
hepcat wrote:
Discalced wrote:
You're right. It is tough. I couldn't fit it in less than seventy-six words.
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lol...just changed it to include the addendum!

(i was just teasin', no harm meant)

Discalced · Post by **Discalced** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:02 pm

Little Raven · Post by **Little Raven** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:08 pm

Nade wrote:The national debt is too big. We should try to reduce it.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

Only took 5.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:02 pm

You forgot that you can make shirts and paper and stuff out of it and that it is great for medicine.

Mr. Fed · Post by **Mr. Fed** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:03 pm

I own Doritos stock.

4 words.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:12 pm

Can you get stock in Doritos?

Debris · Post by **Debris** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:54 pm

Just say no.

3 words or 9 letters.

SuperHiro · Post by **SuperHiro** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:58 pm

Mr. Fed wrote:I own Doritos stock.

4 words.

Damn that one sneaks up on you. Awesome.

As for mine.

No one ever got mad and stabbed his girlfriend because they were high.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 3:02 pm

SuperHiro wrote:
Mr. Fed wrote:I own Doritos stock.

4 words.
Damn that one sneaks up on you. Awesome.

As for mine.

No one ever got mad and stabbed his girlfriend because they were high.

No, but (and i swear to god this is true) we were told at a boy scout rally about a babysitter who got high and roasted the baby, thinking it was a turkey. since then i've learned this is an urban legend, but it still freaked me out.

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Little Raven · Post by **Little Raven** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 3:19 pm

My serious attempt.

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We have gutted our industrial base, and are quickly outsourcing our service sector as well. Our education levels relative to the first world continues to decline. The dollar has already begun to hemorrhage. Given these trends, our economic dominance cannot be maintained for long. Attempting to disguise these problems, our government has engaged in reckless spending and increasingly relied on our military superiority to preserve our economic status. History suggests this is a losing strategy.

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75 words. You're right, Ironrod. It is tough.

Crux · Post by **Crux** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 4:44 pm

No.

One word. Beat that!

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 4:47 pm

Look ma, no words:

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:27 pm

nameless77 · Post by **nameless77** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:39 pm

I.

See how simplistic that is? It's almost Rand-ian, isn't it?