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We took a scientific look at whether weed or alcohol is worse for you — and ...
Business Insider ^ | 11-13-2017 | Erin Brodwin

Posted on 11/15/2017 9:38:38 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

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To: Fido969

What’s the difference between a drunk driver and a stoned driver?

A drunk driver will blow right past a stop sign.

A stoned drive will wait for it to turn green.

;^)


21 posted on 11/15/2017 9:56:24 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: akalinin

I agree with you and both of us will be flamed for this.


22 posted on 11/15/2017 9:57:15 AM PST by pfflier
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yup. Go figure.


23 posted on 11/15/2017 9:57:46 AM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: elcid1970

That’s `stoned driver’...!

Guess I better take a p*** test.


24 posted on 11/15/2017 9:57:54 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Anyone who has lived with a weed addict knows exactly what it does. Even with a bong, the fan to blow the smoke out the window was covered in sticky resin. Both of them were coughing up blood by the end of the semester. That may be better now that weed is so much stronger.


25 posted on 11/15/2017 9:59:19 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Responsibility2nd
alcohol has been blamed for traffic accidents but did those people get tested for weed?....probably 100% not up until the last few years...

often people who are said to be "drunk" are also high on weed or drugs...

weed is insidious....you never even realize as you sloth thru life until the day when you realize you've wasted your school, your marriage, your life...

alcohol is upfront and personal..

if a person is drinking too much you know it...the look, the smell, the speech, etc..

weed..not so much...it is sneaky..so while its affecting your mind you can muddle thru until you make a mistake or fly a plane into the ground...

Jesus made water into wine...

enough said...

26 posted on 11/15/2017 10:02:32 AM PST by cherry
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’ve said it for a while now.

Pot is the lesser of these 2 evils.


27 posted on 11/15/2017 10:02:36 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: Responsibility2nd

and shall we ban alcohol now?....


28 posted on 11/15/2017 10:03:43 AM PST by cherry
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To: mewzilla
If more potheads took frequent baths that would be a plus!!! 🤣🤣🤣
29 posted on 11/15/2017 10:04:12 AM PST by jdsteel (Give me freedom not more government)
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To: Responsibility2nd

BFL . . . . Drugs & Alcohol . . . . whooo-hooo.


30 posted on 11/15/2017 10:04:53 AM PST by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: Responsibility2nd
the industry is paying big bucks for these "studies"...

this is a billion dollar industry and that is why its being pushed...

just like George Soros envisioned...he has pushed for legalized weed for decades...

the the stupid sheeple just march right into the barn...

31 posted on 11/15/2017 10:05:25 AM PST by cherry
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To: Fido969

You’re purposefully twisting the statement and I think you know it.


32 posted on 11/15/2017 10:05:42 AM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Which is worse, being shot with an “assault rifle” or having six ribs broken and severe lung damge caused by your far left lunatic neighbor?


33 posted on 11/15/2017 10:10:44 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (2017 - The year the liberals' "sexual revolution" strikes back!)
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To: cherry

Man made beer, God made pot, who do you trust?


34 posted on 11/15/2017 10:10:53 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Another stupid example of bad research.
Where’s the control group?
What about folks who do neither?
If group A gets symptoms 1-4, group B gets 5-9 but group C gets none of the above then why even discuss A and B?

The premise that A is better than B but C is better than both A or B, results in the outcome that Alcohol and MJ are to be avoided.

Geesh.

Do (pot) illicit drugs or drink if you wish, but I think and believe that when you hurt or kill under the influence and in violation of law, once the state proves your culpability and or guilt, the victims’ nearest relative gets to stick a 22 pistol into your ear and fire one shot.... ( yeah, the avenger of blood thingy works for me).

Research without a proper methodology and premise is just politics.


35 posted on 11/15/2017 10:12:28 AM PST by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: TheStickman

“Too much of anything is bad for us. Period.

That is how I see it.


36 posted on 11/15/2017 10:12:29 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: akalinin

Every hard drug addict I ever treated when I was in that profession started with sugar, caffeine & nicotine. Some later used cannabis on their way to hard drugs & some didn’t.

The “gateway” doesn’t appear for everyone.


37 posted on 11/15/2017 10:16:02 AM PST by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
"It’s not just a myth that dopers are lazier and less inclined to succeed in life."

It that the chicken or the egg issue. Are dopers lazy because they dope or are they dopers because they are lazy?

38 posted on 11/15/2017 10:16:43 AM PST by Purdue77 (Okay, I'm too cheap to afford a tag line.)
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To: pfflier

Ya you will because it’s a retarded argument to make because all marijuana users are not hard drug addicts. Not even most, not even half, not even 25%, not even 10%, probably not even 5%.

That’s why you’re going to get flamed. You think marijuana leads to heavy drug use solely because it’s the easiest of all the drugs to get, which is why teenagers do it instead of doing cocaine or meth or heroin first.

But let me tell you a little secret. The people that went on to become hard drug addicts would have done the coke or the meth or the heroin first if marijuana did not exist.

You’re blaming marijuana for someone years later doing their drug of choice and ruining their lives. They aren’t ruining their lives using marijuana.....are they?


39 posted on 11/15/2017 10:17:14 AM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: akalinin

Between ages 12 and 27, I used every drug in the book-weed, cocaine, heroin, LSD, meth, PCP, ecstasy,psilocybin, mescaline, pills, and alcohol. My experience with marijuana as a gateway drug is a result of exposure to other drugs through people I smoked weed with. Within two years of smoking marijuana, I used cocaine and LSD. This seems to be the way that marijuana is a gateway drug.


40 posted on 11/15/2017 10:17:53 AM PST by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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