Right - police officers may be more likely to shoot someone if they smell marijuana, and that's marijuana's fault.
Posted on 06/14/2018 7:53:46 PM PDT by kathsua
And what the flock does that have to do with anything? I haven’t smoked pot in decades, but an ounce was 40 bucks when I was in college. Under the drug warriors, it went to over 300, but has dropped since spot legalization. In the meantime, kids chose heroin instead since it was cheaper. Brilliant move, drug warriors.
I remember sitting in a car in a parking lot in Denver while a friend who legitmately qualified for medical pot (PTSD and back pain) was getting a prescription. While I waited, all kinds of able-bodied young men walked into the dispensary. Finally, an older man with a cane got out of his car ... and went the florist. Pretty funny. At least Colorado ditched the pretenses.
No shiite.
Marijuana is associated with homicidal behavior. Marijuana violence often involves firearms. Some of this violence is due to marijuana's tendency to induce paranoia in some people. Marijuana heightens the sense of fear as it does the other senses.
Well, at least alcohol isn't 10x more associated with both of these outcomes.</sarc>
This piece is a pathetically weak argument against the legalization of pot—unless the Nanny-State author also wants to bring back alcohol prohibition. Contraband Law is inherently Tyrannical, and can only be legitimate under compelling circumstances—and criminalizing one of God's own creations isn't one of them. The alternative gives government de facto limitless power, and the Constitution can never be legitimately construed to permit that.
Personally, I'd rather share the streets and take my chances with a thousand stoned drivers than with ten drunk ones.
Flagrant disregard for the First and Second Amendments enrages many in this community. Flagrant disregard for the Fourth Amendment? Not so much...
"HE GOT WEED! HE GOT WEED!"
It’s actually not a good idea to drive while intoxicated from marijuana, or really do anything else that’s inherently dangerous. I suspect the risk is in the same ballpark as a host of other prescription and over-the-counter medications, such as sleeping aids.
The basic point that I think the prohibitionists don’t seem to get is that very few people make their use/non-use decision with respect to marijuana based on its legality. That is to say, most users will use whether or not it’s legal, and most non-users will not use whether or not it’s legal. So the number of people using marijuana is not dependent on its legal status, so whatever problems you might identify as being connected to marijuana use are not going to change appreciably based on legalization or not.
Murder rates have little to do with alcohol or marijuana. Urbanization, lack of law enforcement, gang-activity, and even weather....have more of an influence than anything else.
I lived in the DC area in the 2010 to 2013 period. We had a major blizzard period where for about ten days...lot of snow was on the ground and temperatures were below 32 degrees. News folks in the region reported that it was odd....not a single shooting or murder was reported in DC in that period. As soon as the snow melted and we got back up to around 40 degrees....murders started up again.
so tired of people saying that its harmless....its not...
as soon as on the spot weed tests become available then we'll see that a lot of our MVA's involving alcohol also involve weed...
A Janitor's View apparently cannot see beyond the toilet. That's where this belongs.
Refined sugar kills people. One of the most addictive substances on the planet. Terrible for the body. Try being around people not getting their daily fix.
This is the most bizarre rant I’ve ever seen on this forum.
I do not especially agree with this article. I do, however, think that marijuana is very dangerous because it makes people make stupid decisions. And those decisions lead to very poor outcomes. It also deteriorates the brain’s ability to focus for lengths of time.
“Can anyone point to one person who marijuana helped to make a better person? “
Ask that question about whiskey.
In other news spoons kill people too.
;^)
Yup. Damn near killed me.Now, life’s great. One day at a time.
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