The Pot vs. The Tube

Posted by Ryan Woods

I don't care what you do. I want to care, but it is not my place to really care what you do in your spare time. Maybe, just maybe if you go to my church, if you're a great friend of mine, then maybe I care. But I still have no place telling you what to do (with a few exceptions).
And so, if you smoke pot...cool. If you spend 13 hours a day watching TV...ok.
But I find the following analysis interesting. What you're about to read is straight from the mind of my beautiful and gorgeous wife. Here is a comparison of Television and marijuana.

Both are mildly addicting
Both mind numbing
Both are unhealthy
Both alter your perception of reality
Both affect your ability to make sound decisions
Both induce laziness
Both waste money

I know there are a few more, but alas she is not here to list them off for me.*

*Beware, for if you ever do ask her to list them off, she will. If she is in an ok mood she will then proceed to rant and rave about the fact that studies have shown that tv watching for infants actually shrinks their brain! Anyway, just ye be forewarned.

7 additions to the conversation

James T Wood says 9:53 AM, March 17, 2006

But can TV do THIS?

arwen says 7:12 PM, March 18, 2006

James... I'm not into the whole pot thing (despite the Che Guava connection), but the whole concept of that house is pretty cool... I mean come on... a hydraulic door?! How cool is that!

Ry... For once your wife has a point...that rant about TV and infants is a really good one. I've recycled it many a time. And you go ahead and tell her that I said that too... she'll know the code.

Ryan Woods says 4:37 PM, March 19, 2006

Joke all you want. For although this all started as a joke between my wife and I some years ago, we have yet to have somebody give us good reasons why any of the comparisons are unwarrented. Granted the extremity of the two are quite different (some favoriing the weed and others favoring TV) but they are still very oddly similar.

Ryan Woods says 9:00 AM, March 21, 2006

So they both have a couple of differing possitives (however minor they are). I can agree with that. But their negatives? They still share the same negatives which, as I said before, have not been refuted.

RoniZee says 9:47 AM, March 21, 2006

One difference is that high schoolers feel cooler when they use pot, but feel less-cool when they watch tv. What I'm trying to say is...Pot wins. Go Pot.

tabitha jane says 4:54 PM, March 21, 2006

although tv can't give you lung cancer like smoking can . . .

Ryan Woods says 9:37 PM, March 21, 2006

Can smoking pot give you lung cancer? Or is it just tabacco

And although watching tv doesn't produce cancer, I'm prett sure you can tie it to obesity which is tied to death of all kinds.

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