Wrath of Dagon

I know you're joking, but I'm pretty sure I'm older than you are. As far as being legalized for medical use in US, that's really just a back door way of legalizing it in a few states. It's still illegal under the Federal law, which takes precedence. It may be available in pill form legally by prescription, I've heard that but I'm not sure. Certainly FDA wouldn't approve a medication that's delivered by smoking and has no dosage, since it obviously damages the lungs.

If there were really credible studies that cannabis is an effective treatment for medical conditions, it would be available for prescription in fixed dosages just like every other controlled substance that's illegal without a prescription.

You can steal someone's work or ideas too.

My point is alcohol might be good for the heart, not everything is about your precious weed. And how does supposed treatment of diseases justify the use of a drug by perfectly healthy people? Quite powerful and addictive narcotics are available for prescription when justified by the medical condition.

Did you just step out of a time machine from the 50's? There are dozens of scientific studies on nicotine and they all say the same thing, it is insanely addicting. True story. Here is a link: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4753 Is insanely addicting a scientific term? All I know is people can quit smoking without any kind of rehab, and anecdottally people have just as much trouble not overeating as quitting smoking. @alanschu : tannins are good, but apparently small amounts of alcohol also are good for cardiovascular system as it expands blood vessels. It's not recommended to start drinking for that reason though.

Right, but now we have to back the guy who stole the election while complaining that the same thing happened in Iran, not that Obama complained much.

That's not true at all, I still have no idea whether I'll get ME2, though I'm leaning against.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_...WZnaGFuZWxlY3Rp So now Karzai stealing the election is a good thing?

Because cannabis has a lot of legitimate pros to it, cigarettes do not. I don't understand why you're even comparing the two, they have nothing in common besides that you can smoke both. What pros does cannabis have that tobacco doesn't? I'm comparing them because they're both mind altering drugs, and they're both normally smoked. @hurlshot : I don't think nicotine is insanely addicting. I don't think it's any more difficult to quit tobacco than it is to stop overeating.

Why not, there's a campaign to stop the use of tobacco, eventually they'd probably like to make it illegal, yet we're trying to legalize pot at the same time.

I think the real reason for no demo is demos dissuade as many people as they persuade, especially it's tough to demo an RPG effectively. That's why you see demos come out some time after the game, they want people who were already planning to buy to buy first, then get the ones who are wavering.

I should probably find out myself, but I'm lazy, do you know if it works well under Vista/Windows 7? Also is there any point to wait for the mod to be released or is Beta good enough?

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is alcohol isn't necessarily used to get drunk. It's actually considered a good thing to have a glass of wine with dinner, in fact it's beneficial. I personally don't believe in mood enhancing chemicals, whatever they might be. I don't see how you won't eventually come to rely on them as a crutch, even assuming no long term effect from moderate use. Even if that's not the case, I don't see how inhaling all that smoke can be good for the lungs.

That combat looks really boring, of course it's the stupid zombies again, the worst enemy in ME. Combat they showed before looked much improved, though I can't say exactly why.

Absinthe is not a hallucinogen, that's an old wifes' tale. Like I said, alcohol would be illegal if it wasn't so established in Western culture. I don't know much about pot, but I suspect it has long term effect on the brain since pot heads have that look about them.

You could turn off auto aim in ME. I played as a soldier and used all the guns except pistol. The AR and shotgun were pretty different, although you could get by with just the AR. The sniper rifle was pretty cool to use on the rare occassion it was actually useful.

Haven't been illegal? Depends on what country you're talking about. Hallucinogenic drugs have not been acceptable in Western culture until recently, although they haven't always been illegal. They were outlawed because of the harm they were causing. I'm specifically talking about opiates here, I'm not sure about other types of hallucinogens, but it's all part of the drug culture so far as I'm concerned, and destructive.

I don't think there'll be new DLC monthly. At most they'll do what Bethesda has done.

Alcohol and tobacco have been established for a long time. If they were new substances, they'd both be illegal. In fact, it's been tried.

Junkies are the most pathetic people you could ever meet.

I'n not sure who you mean by "the US". Opinions differ. In general professional sports are not regulated much, unless they do something wrong, which may be the case here. In more general terms, since professional sports are a monopoly of sorts, they need some kind of supervision. Certainly a real monopoly is always heavily regulated, like the old AT&T before it was broken up.

It means they don't have to compete like regular businesses, since that wouldn't be practical for a sports league. The flip side of it is there's no market discipline to make sure they behave.

Yes, that is a wonderful use of taxpayers money. It is, they have hearings like that all the time. First it's a fraud against the public by fixing games, second NBA has an anti-trust exemption from the government.

You can have household pets, but they have to be edible. Edit: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/natio...lanet-eat-a-dog

If your motherboard dies and you replace it with the same model or very close to it, that's also fine - I've done this. You have to call Microsoft's activation phone line. Apparently you're kind of at their mercy at that point. Plus I'm not sure you'll be able to find the same model in a couple of years.