Posted on 03/07/2012 4:22:54 AM PST by AnTiw1
Anesthesiologist and pain relief expert tells Knesset Committee on Drug Abuse that Israel is leader in the field. By MCT Israel is the world leader in medical marijuana use, anesthesiologist and pain relief expert Dr. Bareket Schiff- Keren told the Knesset Committee on Drug Abuse on Tuesday.
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I live in the part of the country that just legalized “medical mj” and the crime surrounding it is at least interesting to watch.
Robberies and burglaries at the outlets.
Unsanctioned growing facilities being busted or robbed.
Mob type “protection rackets”.
Not to mention neighbor kid standing outside our bedroom window, hacking his lungs out in the middle of the night, cuz he’s smoking it in crack pipe.
Do you suppose that 16 yr old is driving while high?
It’s ok....his folks know he smokes....
Its all making the world a better place....
Imagine how impressed he’ll be when they suggest he not try the harder drugs!
Robberies and burglaries at the outlets.
Happens with oxycodone, too - should we make that medicine illegal?
Unsanctioned growing facilities being busted or robbed.
That never happened before medical marijuana was legalized?
Mob type “protection rackets”.
That never happened before medical marijuana was legalized?
Not to mention neighbor kid standing outside our bedroom window, hacking his lungs out in the middle of the night, cuz he’s smoking it in crack pipe.
That never happened before medical marijuana was legalized?
Do you suppose that 16 yr old is driving while high?
That never happened before medical marijuana was legalized?
Decriminalization has worked in Portugal: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2852352/posts
Its ok, the country is going to hell anyway, why not speed it along.
Legalize all the evils of the world, that really helps.
How many of your family members have been destroyed by drugs?
I know, you feel better because the number is equal to those lives destroyed by booze.
All toward a better world .... have fun!
Nanny-statism is what will speed it along.
Legalize all the evils of the world, that really helps.
Just the ones that violate nobody's rights - that'll help the cause of liberty.
How many of your family members have been destroyed by drugs?
My uncle was destroyed by alcohol - should we make that drug illegal?
Like Fluke's birth control, the government will force everybody to pay for it.
With the thousands of prescribable substances out there, we should keep cannabis off the list because it might become the second one for which the feds mandate a $0 co-pay?
Right.
Robberies and burglaries at the outlets. Unsanctioned growing facilities being busted or robbed. Mob type “protection rackets”. '
actually, a RAND study shows crime lower on blocks near open dispensaries...and the other part, about you secretly watching your neighbors pubescent son at night, i just don't feel professionally qualified to comment on....
actually booze and tobacco account for 93% of all deaths due to drug-related illness, killing over a half a million Americans every year...
number of deaths due to marijuana consumption in all of US history: zero .
pssst...y'know, you're the one who's supposed to be winning this debate because you're arguing with brain-dead pot smokers...remember?
So drug abusers are just products of their environment?
There are many things for which you are unqualified.
Also, not too interested in your RAND study.
In Denver it’s quite clear that crime has increased significantly around the pot shops and grow facilities.
You make light of the kid inhaling super heated smoke, coughing his lungs out, and having no frame of reference for discerning the hazards of harder drugs or driving the family car under the influence.
I’m not concerned with convincing you of anything, but have enjoyed the opportunity to contrast your disinterest with the real hazards associated with the libertarian view.
i'm heartbroken
" Also, not too interested in your RAND study. "
the Rand Corporation is heartbroken too
" In Denver it’s quite clear that crime has increased significantly around the pot shops and grow facilities. "
you won't care what your police dept thinks either, i'm sure they are shattered as well...
A Denver Police Department analysis estimates that medical- marijuana dispensaries in the city were robbed or burglarized at a lower rate last year than either banks or liquor stores.
The analysis — contained in a memo authored by Division Chief Tracie Keesee for Denver City Council members — finds that the projected robbery and burglary rate for storefront dispensaries in 2009 was on par with that of pharmacies.
The analysis is the first time Denver police have sought to compare crime at dispensaries with that at other businesses, and it represents a best-guess at a crime rate for the city's rapidly evolving dispensary industry. Denver police spokesman John White said he didn't want to speculate on the bigger meaning of the numbers until the department can do a more thorough analysis.
But the memo comes as welcome news to medical-marijuana advocates, who have sought to convince state and local officials that dispensaries are not crime magnets.
"It sounds anecdotally about right," said Matt Brown, with the pro-dispensary group Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation. ". . . Occasionally they happen. (Dispensaries) are by no means immune to crime. But they're far more manageable than some of the public outrage would lead you to believe."
Police departments in other parts of the state — and in other states as well — have reported spikes in medical-marijuana-related crime coinciding with increases in the number of dispensaries in their communities.
Denver police statisticians arrived at the estimated crime rate for dispensaries by looking at the total number of burglaries or robberies reported at storefront dispensaries in 2009 — eight — and projecting what that number would have been had all the dispensaries operating in Denver at the end of the year been open for the full year.
The figures do not include medical-marijuana-related crimes that occurred outside storefront dispensaries — such as robberies of medical-marijuana delivery services or home-based caregivers. Previously, Denver police officials have said there were at least 25 medical-marijuana-related robberies or burglaries in the city in the last six months of 2009.
The projected 16.8 percent burglary and robbery rate for dispensaries is equal to that of pharmacies. It's below the 19.7 percent rate of liquor stores and the 33.7 percent rate for banks, the analysis found. (Source: Denver Post)
You make light of the kid inhaling super heated smoke, coughing his lungs out, and having no frame of reference for discerning the hazards of harder drugs or driving the family car under the influence.
actually i made light of a twisted frightened little man who stares all night at little boys thru his windowshades like a sick freak...if you want to be specific
"I’m not concerned with convincing you of anything "
you were until you lost your argument...several times
" but have enjoyed the opportunity to contrast your disinterest with the real hazards associated with the libertarian view. "
awww...and after all that effort to make yourself appear like you actually had a point...
None of that nonsense concludes there is less crime in those neighborhoods than before the pot shops were there.
They simply tumble to your equivalence meme.
Regarding the neighbor kid....his hacking his lungs out wakes us, but you seem to get a kick out of insinuating some motive to me.
Typical liberal tactic of avoiding the issue you’ve lost the argument.
There is no argument for increasing the array of poison available to society,
or pretending some good results from it.
and your argument is specious because with maximum enforcement weed delivery arrives faster than dominos
and show me one fr member who has so many posts on multiple threads referring to their covert surveillance of an underage neighbor boy...last month you suspected him of smoking /sleeping in your car iirc
you should change your nick to "larry the peeper"
Do lies and slander make you seem more authoritative?
Since my car is garaged, I would make no such claim.
Your brain damage is showing.
well, the undamaged part of my brain remembers the multiple times you posted, specifically, of watching a 16yo neighbor boy nightly thru your windowshades...and since you yourself refer to it, you're confirming that
if it wasn't creepy i wouldnt have mentioned..it is creepy, and you own it
rather be brain damaged than a peeper in the closet ;^)
Here is what I “own”.
A debate opponent, so incapable of arguing on the merits, that he lies to create false impressions.
As though it is abnormal to investigate loud noise outside your residence at night.
It’s “creepy” to investigate?
It’s “creepy” to identify and report the cause?
No, it is sick to refuse to acknowledge behavior has consequences.
It is ignorant to pretend that behavior has no consequences to the surrounding society.
The way you take the “creepy” out of it, is by going outside and hollering at him, loud enough for his parents to hear, that if he doesn’t knock it off, you’re calling the cops.
That undermines his “parental consent” argument and motivates the parents to get back in the parenting role.
(whisper to room) oh, no, he’s not obsessed /s
lol
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