Marijuana Myths

TheCollegeConservative ^ | 02/03/2012 | Alan Groves

[AnTiw1]

Easily. Give me evidence of ONE death due solely to consumption of cannabis. Or better yet, let's have an ER nurse join the thread, and ask her how many deaths she's seen from alcohol or tobacco consumption...provable causes of death. Ask her if she remembers ONE instance of death due to consuming pot.

I'll be here all week.

Marijuana laws are welfare for law enforcement.

[gdani]

Under the guise of 'a penny saved is a penny earned', governments at all levels would be far ahead money wise by not spending hundreds BILLIONS of dollars on the failed WOD in the first place.

As you know, you're giving Government far too much credit.

[rottndog]

The main point of legalizing dope is to tax it and increase the size of government.

And the WOD has DECREASED the size of government???

Legalization would REDUCE the size of government.

[Responsibility2nd]

No evidence there that crimes have been created rather than simply relocated. Do you even understand the difference?

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No, I really don’t.

Explain to me how there is a difference in crime that was created because of LEGAL marijuana and crime that was relocated because of ILLEGAL marijuana.

Crime is crime. And if pot was legal - there would be more of it.

[dangerdoc]

Google Marinol.

The legal version exists, and is available.

[Gabz]

Really? Can you grow your own tobacco? Can you distill your own booze?

Not without a ton of gubmint interference, you can’t.

Both are perfectly legal for personal consumption as is beer and wine making. Only if I decide to start selling it does the government claim to have any say over it.

[Responsibility2nd]

Legalization would REDUCE the size of government.

 

 

Still wrong. Did legalization of alcohol reduce the size of government?

[JustSayNoToNannies]

It’s not a lie.

Yes it is - here are the facts again: according to research cited by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, of all those who ever used marijuana, 9% have at some point been addicted to it - whereas the corresponding figure for alcohol is 15%.

Did you read that Heritage Foundation report?

That's how I found that lie of theirs.

[ichabod1]

Weak, very weak. There are stronger cases that could be made, the author chooses not to use them. No one says alcohol and mj are equally mild. They say that relative to mj, etoh is a horrifyingly dangerous product that results in the destruction of families, properties,and lives every day.

[easternsky]

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.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

No evidence there that crimes have been created rather than simply relocated. Do you even understand the difference?

No, I really don’t.

OK, pay close attention: if last year there were 50 crimes in area A and 550 in area B, while this year there were 70 in A and 530 in B, crime has simply been relocated from B to A, not created since there were 600 crimes each year.

[longtermmemmory]

simple solution, if you use “medical” pot then you are prohibited from driving. period. no drivers license until 30 days after the “treatment stops” and six months of automatic monthly drug testing the “patient” pays for consisting of 8 random tests with 8 hours notice.

[easternsky]

I do not post very often for reasons just like this. Do I like to use a wrong word, of couse not but if thats all you can find wrong with my post keep it to yourself.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

That's easily explained: the ones with unscrambled brains are able to hid their use.

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.

Should we protect the children of alcohol abusers by banning alcohol?

[rottndog]

Did legalization of alcohol reduce the size of government?

Inasmuch as all the tax money that was required to enforce prohibition and combat the crime it caused was then diverted to more appropriate and productive uses, or not spent at all, yes.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

People die now due to someone drunk and driving. Is that sufficient reason to ban alcohol?

simple solution, if you use “medical” pot then you are prohibited from driving. period. no drivers license until 30 days after the “treatment stops” and six months of automatic monthly drug testing the “patient” pays for consisting of 8 random tests with 8 hours notice.

Same rule for alcohol - or prescription painkillers?

[ichabod1]

Prohibition CREATED the mob. THAT genie wasn’t ever going to be put back in the bottle.

[CodeToad]

Alcohol kills tens of thousands a year in just auto crashes alone. How many are due to pot use?

This dismissive attitude towards alcohol simply because it is a part of society is silly. Pot was part of society, too, until big business didn’t like it as a competitor.

[Smokin' Joe]

A friend who had been prescribed the pill form of THC during chemo for non-Hodgkins Lymphoma said the pills (then only 4 per day at $5.00 per pill) did not work as well as the plant as an antinauseant. Back then (mid-'80s), he could also get the plant cheaper. Cheaper and better were reasons enough for him to risk getting in trouble, partly because he could not work. IIRC there are other substances in the unadulterated plant which are not in the pill.

Speaking of unadulterated, how much of the crime is due to pot that has been laced with 'angel dust' (PCP) or other chemicals?

The LEOs I know said that was more of a problem insofar as violent crime went because all the people smoking homegrown were pretty mellow, even when they got busted.

[easternsky]

The Children say YES