I seriously question anyone wanting to keep and bear arms after partaking of a drug whose proponents have repeatedly attested it renders them "without a care in the world."
Very bad juju.
Hmmm, yes.. I wonder that this line of thought is a bit precarious.
I don't think it is accurate to generalize that ALL people who do any-one-thing are inherently irresponsible.
I don't enjoy the generalizations leveled at myself as a proud firearm and human rights enthusiast.
Certainly using and handling firearms while intoxicated is a serious action that is not to be done.
But I think this statement quoted throws the baby out with the bath water.
Different people have different reactions to drugs. Some people get drunk quicker than others.
Not even all sober people are perfectly responsible and innocent of recklessness.
Some people lock up their guns when they may be drinking whiskey.
Should they be considered irresponsible?
Some people are using 'weed' to avoid starvation during cancer treatment or to cope with extreme pain.
Also to my opinion, that anecdotal description [..it renders them "without a care in the world."] sounds more applicable for a heroin junkie than a stoner, as marijuana users are reported to drive more slowly and safely than drunk drivers and in fact drunkenness is often considered the closest analogy for marijuana intoxication.
I would think that choosing the statisticly SAFEST, LEAST LETHAL drug in the human pharmacopoeia
would promote them to demonstrating more "care in the world" than users of any other drug of choice.
In fact even caffeine or aspirin kill more people yearly than Cannabis Sativa.
Certainly I do not propose to generalize the converse - that all pot smokers are responsible.
But I think there may responsible people in many camps.
Historicly our founding fathers were exceedingly friendly and familiar with weed/marijuana/cannabis/hemp.
no less than George Washington himself is quoted as having said: "Make the most you can of the Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."
and Tom Jefferson:
"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."
For a long time most bibles, newspapers, oil for paints, ropes, sails, and many other things were made of marijuana hemp.
Van Gogh's paintings were most probably painted on hemp canvas with hemp oil paints.
Excuse my ramble and apologies if I dragged the post off subject.