Posted on 02/03/2012 10:57:07 AM PST by gabriellah
I'm just calling you on it....
I'm not going to do your work for you...
I happen to have worked in many ER's....and I could surmise that someone somewhere has killed themselves somehow, someway...after smoking dope.
I dunno....how about wrecking their car? Doing something stupid, like smoking dope and shooting guns, riding motorcycles, ATV's, skateboards, surfboards, etc.....
If you are meaning OD'ing on pot...that's not how I read your initial statement..and the one I posted to.
FWIW-
Violent offenders love their pot. Non-violent offenders love their pot. It means nothing. It’s a distinction without a difference.
Symptoms of what substance causes the following:
headache
personality changes
changes in behavior
confusion
irritability
drowsiness
breathing during exertion
muscle weakness
twitching
cramping
nausea
vomiting
thirst
inability to perceive and interpret sensory information
Bradycardia abd widened pulse pressure can begin followed by cerebral edema that can lead to coma or death.
Water. Water intoxication can do all that.
The only dangerous side effect of marijuana is prison rape.
Ummmmmmm...well yes, really you can!!
Perfectly legal too!!!
“Heck, in Ohio you can have up to 100 grams personal possession and all you get is a minor misdemeanor (like a jaywalking ticket). Somehow, Ohio has not cracked to the point of falling into Lake Erie, though.”
Colorado has a pot law. So far, other than the pot shops themselves, no appearant increase in crime or wacked out people acting all weird.
This article is complete Bullsh*t, it’s been a while since I read an article with so many blatant falsehoods
Other than eliminating a huge revenue stream, legalization would have absolutely no effect on organized crime. And we all know how they still control the vast illegal moonshine industry o.0
“Yep. At least the ones (like Ron Paul) who use the Constitution as Toilet Paper.”
Can you name a single unconstitutional item Ron Paul has put forth? Just name one. Go ahead. We’ll wait.
Hear, hear.
As a police officer who has been neck deep in the WOD in the past, I am here to tell you that it is a HUGE waste of time and taxpayer money. The WOD has been the root cause of more challenges to the Fourth and by proxy, the 2nd Amendment than any other source.
There is no plan on ending or winning the WOD. It is a huge industry and it would put millions, from the street corner lookout to the trial judge, out of work.
The black market of narco-trafficking is getting tens of thousands killed a year in the name of profits. It has led to the creation of scores of SWAT teams who are kicking in doors of American citizens and not making one bit of difference other than to piss good people off. The madness has to stop and as distasteful as it may seem to some, we cannot legislate this morality and we cannot arrest our way out of it.
The money we have spent on the WOD since 1972 could have paid for Newt’s moon base.
“I work with the Children of all abusers. Alcohol, Drugs, Prescription, and street. Try and explain to them its okay for all the users and abusers to control their intake and not affect others. “
To that list you can add people with money spending issues, gambling problems, and a whole host of abusive behavior issues.
It isn’t the substance that is the problem, it is the person making the bad choices and those around them not holding them accountable.
Hell, you, yourself, just gave their behaviors a pass by saying the problem is with the substances and not them.
You sound like a liberal blaming guns for violent crime and demanding guns be banned.
The notion that moving inventory from some dealers house to a brick and mortar storefront, increases availability is nonsense. The only thing changes is broader variety and quality of a cleaner product.
’ “The urine test is based on detection of 11-nor-delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol-9-carboxylic acid (9-carboxy-THC), a metabolite of delta-9-THC”
- http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000138.htm ‘
The test looks for a metabolite, an end product not the active THC. You lost that argument.
It is not illegal to grow one’s own tobacco or brew one’s own beer or distill one’s own whiskey. Keeping marijuana illegal feeds the cartels, criminalizes harmless people, and builds the tyrrany of government (think swat teams).
“Oh, you mean like William Randolf Hearst, who didn’t want hemp to compete with his paper mills?”
Not to mention drug companies. Pot was being made illegal worldwide during the late 1800’s because opium salesmen were wanted to rid themselves of a competitor, a cheap, make it yourself competitor. Anyone can grow pot like any flower and many in the pharm and chemical companies were thinking pot was taking the profit away from “regulated” drugs.
No it didn't.
The mob (in the sense of ethnically-based organized crime operations) was well-established by the 1820s in the US.
There were mob wars in New Orleans and New York by the middle of the nineteenth century.
The mob's business model is independent of narcotics, alcohol or any other product.
Its business model is to provide protection for criminal enterprises from other criminal enterprises.
Whether that criminal enterprise is manipulating prices, or gambling, or insurance fraud, or illegal drug trafficking, or prostitution, or smuggling illegals, or fraudulent union contracts, or embezzlement, or prescription drug fraud (an enormous business for the mob today and one that involves completely legal narcotics) it does not matter.
It is a myth that Prohibition "created" the mob. All Prohibition did was make the mob more visible - because average citizens were much more likely to visit a speakeasy in 1925 than they were to steal from cargo vessels or create mail fraud rings.
The Feds became aware in the 1920s of what the police of every major city in the US were well aware of in 1890.
’ Can you grow your own tobacco? Can you distill your own booze? ‘
Sure you can. Either as an individual (tobacco farmer, home-brew kits) or large company. What are you thinking?
Phillip Morris
R. J. Reynolds
Anheuser-Busch
Micro-breweries across the US
Do you need more examples of legal production of tobacco and alcohol?
Of Course its the user, but the effects of alllll abusers hurt innocent people and that is my point. Smoke Pot, take drugs, drink, Party, drive fast, raise hell, do whatever you want to the extreme, that is your right, but I gurantee some innocent person will pay for the results. What we do effects others.
BTW I am 50, all my smoking friends are my age or older, half of us have businesses, and we have a bunch of retired veterans, three who have permanent disabilities from being wounded in combat. Eight out of ten are conservative, but most couldn't care less about politics. Why participate in a system that has in so many words, declared "war" against you?
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