There's my link to support my statement. Please provide a link supporting yours.
Posted on 09/27/2006 10:02:41 PM PDT by freepatriot32
Increase it to what? Death penalty?
"It's a dangerous drug ..."
Define dangerous. Cars are dangerous. Electricity is dangerous. Number 2 pencils are dangerous. In exactly what way is marajuana dangerous?
"that leads to even more dangerous addiction, ..."TT>
Like what? Fast food? Television?
"so backsliding and submitting to its promoters undermine us all."
No. What undermines us all are inane comments from the perpetually misinformed. There are some very dangerous drugs in this world, but marajuana isn't one of them. You try to pass that BS off on kids these days and you'll only succeed in losing their trust. Then when you try to tell them that crack and heroin are dangerous they'll ignore you.
Be different. Be honest.
"What is Smoking Pot Really Like?"
Let this non-smoker who tried it a few times tell you:
*Cough*
*Hack*
*Cough*
*Wheeze*
"Could someome give me a beer instead?"
Never bought into the idea that legalizing pot would cause greatly expanded use for that very reason. If you don't smoke cigarettes, weed is harsh on the lungs and the after flavor is less appealing and doesn't have the addictive nicotine to keep you hooked. I'd take a good beer buzz any day.
Your comments betray that you buy into the fantasy world garbage that pot is not dangerous. You need to dare to be different and stop following in lock step with the promoters of addiction.
Pot addiction is a legitimate concern requiring societal control through its lawa and penalties. That simple enough for you?
Sounds like an anxiety attack over using the dangerous herb. You should try again. :)
And to think I was actually hoping you'd back up your assertion with some evidence. The burden of proof is on you, lady. You say pot is dangerous, I ask you to flesh that out a bit more for the sake of clarity and you fail to deliver.
"You need to dare to be different and stop following in lock step with the promoters of addiction."
You need to stop parroting government propaganda like some mindless robot.
"Pot addiction is a legitimate concern requiring societal control through its lawa and penalties. That simple enough for you?"
Actually, it's TOO simple. Sophomoric even. For starters, you're trying to force a conclusion from a premise you've neglected to establish. Last time you said pot was "dangerous", but you never clarified as to how, despite being challenged to do so. Now you say it's a "legitimate concern." That could mean a lot of things, all of it arguable. Second, the laws and penalties I suspect you are referring to have done more harm than good. If the intention was to reduce drug use, it failed miserably. The only thing they've managed to do is pack our jails so full we have to cut people loose early to make room, effectively reducing jail times for the real criminals, thereby making our justice system the joke that it currently is.
Not a bad description, actually!
You could say the same thing about reality television programming.
Are you saying it's safe?
Beginning at midnight (about 45 minutes from now) ET, the History Channel is showing 4 hours of the series, Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way. First up, marijuana.
Ugh.
The first time I tried pot I was drunk and couldn't remember a thing five seconds after it happened. That was rather interesting.
The second time I decided it would be an interesting idea to watch Disney's Fantasia.
Apparently, that was a rather big mistake... the movie is quite hypnotic, I fell into a trance of sorts, freaked out, and started getting paranoid delusions that "The Illuminati" was screwing with my mind... and my trusty tin-foil hat was so far, far away.
Yeah, it was that screwed up.
I've loved Fantasia ever since, but pot really isn't my thing.
IOW, the libertarian vote in the last election.
"Are you saying it's safe?"
No. I'm asking; ""In exactly what way is marajuana dangerous?"
Exactly? It's still being studied. Which is the point. It's not been proven safe. Therefore it's dangerous.
If you prefer the descriptor "unsafe", that's fine also.
Hmmmm. How many hospital admissions for aspirin? Anything close to the 50,000 admitted for marijuana? The 70,000 treated in the ER for marijuana reactions and released?
Would you propose that marijuana be legalized and available like aspirin? Perhaps right there at the check-out counter next to the gum?
I mean, since it's safer than aspirin.
"Between 1992 and 2002, adolescent substance abuse treatment admissions reporting marijuana as the primary substance increased from 23% to 64%; while substance abuse treatment admissions reporting alcohol as the primary substance decreased from 56% to 20% of all adolescent substance abuse treatment admissions. In 2002, more than half (54%) of adolescent substance abuse admissions were referred to substance abuse treatment through the criminal justice system compared with 40% in 1992."
There's my link to support my statement. Please provide a link supporting yours.
What a pathetic attempt at a reply. Abuse treatment admissions are more than a "mention".
"Between 1992 and 2002, adolescent substance abuse treatment admissions reporting marijuana..."
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