Free Hemp!!!

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: serval

If I'm 99% likely to get 100 units of happiness from smoking and .001% likely to get arrested (say, -10,000 units of happiness) then the option is to smoke!
(100x 0.99) x (10,000x0.00001) = 99 - .01 = +99 units of happiness!

Nice rant, but perchance did you write this while high?

the remainder of 99% (expressed in decimal as 0.99), is 1% (again expressed in decimal 0.01).

So the equation is (100 x 0.99) x (10,000 x 0.01) = 99.0 - 100.0 = -1.0 units of happiness. Unfortunately, the corrected equation does not support your statements.


Upon re-reading, the correct equation is neither, you really want to calculate the probability distribution of several factors, one slightly dependent on the other. It would be interesting to run a population simulation and graph the results. Perhaps it would result that society, overally, would be better off smoking. I know that it does have several established medical health benefits.

 

[OFFascist]

I too think it would be good if they legalized marijuanna.

I think American farmers would do better if we had another cash crop for them to grow.

It embarasses me as an American to think that Canadians could be getting in on the legal marijuana growing business before us.

There is money to be made here and it should be us making the money first, not foreigners.