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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: longfellow
"Man made beer, God made pot, who do you trust?"

Thank you. I am going to suggest your thought provoking observation as the topic of conversation for the after-turkey bull session at the upcoming Tater Family Thanksgiving Get-together. We enjoy hashing out the truly important matters in life in these sessions and this topic has the potential to be right up there with the classic 2013 "Can a real man carry a Glock" discussion!
61 posted on 11/15/2017 11:03:11 AM PST by Garth Tater (Gone Galt and I ain't coming back.)
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To: longfellow
Man made beer, God made pot, who do you trust?

Jesus made wine. :-)

62 posted on 11/15/2017 11:11:00 AM PST by al_c (LIBERAL - Laughable Iconsiderate Blaming Entitled Ranting Anti-christian Loudmouth)
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To: Responsibility2nd

63 posted on 11/15/2017 11:13:29 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Freepers don’t care about facts when it comes to Jim Beam versus yumboldt


64 posted on 11/15/2017 11:14:01 AM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Only one remains a detriment on ones Rights, via the constitutional trampling ‘War on (some) drugs’.

At least Prohibition was done legally.

Back to point, ANY excess is bad.


65 posted on 11/15/2017 11:14:33 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Manly Warrior
Another stupid example of bad research.

Yep. Since there are no standards for marijuana, you can't do any reliable research. If a person got sick from it, was it the marijuana or was it a pesticide? How strong was the marijuana? How did they get their long term data?

I've been trying to find reliable information about it and every source I've found has an agenda. They're either strongly pro marijuana and are throwing out bogus studies to support it or they're strongly anti and are relying on old, discredited information.

I would just like to know the unbiased truth.

66 posted on 11/15/2017 11:17:30 AM PST by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: mbynack
I would just like to know the unbiased truth.


67 posted on 11/15/2017 11:20:20 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: akalinin
Sorry, but every hard drug addict I ever met in the hospital started with marijuana. Trying to normalize it’s use is a fatal mistake.

That include hardcore alcoholics, too? Who by far outnumber other drug addicts? Did most of them, too, start with marijuana?

Didn't think so!

Regards,

68 posted on 11/15/2017 11:26:38 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: longfellow

God also made the Opium Poppy, Coca Plant, and various other plant life that is extremely poisonous to humans if consumed.


69 posted on 11/15/2017 11:40:51 AM PST by PJBankard
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To: akalinin

“Sorry, but every hard drug addict I ever met in the hospital started with marijuana.”

How many drank beer or smoked cigarettes before smoking Marijuana and becoming a hard drug addict?

And when you say “started with Marijuana”, was that right out of the womb or did tens of thousands of other things happen for the first time before they smoked Marijuana, and if so, how do you know which “first” was the one that turned ‘em into hard drug addicts?


70 posted on 11/15/2017 11:48:46 AM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: akalinin

Check out post 39 its classic


71 posted on 11/15/2017 12:33:07 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

I just telling you what I saw. Both of them went through a type of withdrawal, similar to cigarettes.


72 posted on 11/15/2017 12:46:57 PM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Responsibility2nd

A child psychiatrist I know is adamantly against teen use of marijuana, says it is destructive of brain development. Says alcohol is a problem too, but he’s more worried about marijuana use.


73 posted on 11/15/2017 1:23:06 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: nicollo

Thanks for making that point.

It’s a common (and very true) argument against marijuana.


74 posted on 11/15/2017 1:25:09 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: cherry
and shall we ban alcohol now?....

We tried that - the cure was worse than the disease, as is the case with the current marijuana ban.

75 posted on 11/15/2017 1:27:44 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: nicollo; Responsibility2nd
A child psychiatrist I know is adamantly against teen use of marijuana, says it is destructive of brain development. Says alcohol is a problem too, but he’s more worried about marijuana use.

Since teens have been reporting for many years that they can get cannabis more easily than beer or cigarettes, evidently it's banning cannabis for adults that hurts teens - by putting cannabis in the black market, beyond the reach of effective regulation such as age limits.

76 posted on 11/15/2017 1:31:13 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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Per vocabulary.com: intoxicated.

[Quote] Before intoxicated was first used to mean “drunk” in the 1570’s, it meant “poisoned,” which especially makes sense when you know the Latin root word, intoxicare, “to poison.”[Unquote]

That high feeling is actually your body reacting to the toxins you have introduced.

For example, if you drink and are trying to shed a few pounds, have a drink of alcohol and your body immediately stops burning fat and shifts to processing the alcohol out of your system.

MJ? Does Munchies = dilution process?

Better off not to poison the temple.


77 posted on 11/15/2017 3:25:18 PM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: bigdaddy45

There you go injecting common sense and the Constitution into the argument.

P


78 posted on 11/15/2017 3:28:41 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: mewzilla

“FWIW, it’s not a laughing matter around here. For a variety of reasons, everything from economics to public safety.”

I understand. But I also understand what stinky hippies smell like.


79 posted on 11/15/2017 4:12:17 PM PST by jdsteel (Give me freedom not more government)
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To: akalinin
Sorry, but every hard drug addict I ever met in the hospital started with marijuana. Trying to normalize it’s use is a fatal mistake.

I bet you that before they smoked their first joint, they drank alcohol.

I don't believe one necessarily leads to the other. I think it is more likely that your proclivity to take drugs or drink excessively are based on your upbringing and the environment you put yourself in.

80 posted on 11/15/2017 4:50:05 PM PST by Magnatron
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