HHS: 8,300 Words About the Dangers of Tobacco Smoking, But Not a Single Word About Pot Smoking

CNSNews.com ^ | January 20, 2014 | Susan Jones

[Ken H]

Look, I’m no church deacon or anything like that, in fact, I’ve used drugs of all kinds including crack and heroin by needle. I started out with pot. I know what I’m talking about, I’ve learned from the inside.

How much prison time did you serve for your admitted crimes, which are all felonies under federal law?

[greene66]

Well, I wouldn’t have believed 20-30 years ago something as insanely depraved as fag marriage would be a reality in America, either. Not to mention electing a Marxist “community organizer” for president. But America has devolved into a truly degenerate place, with a populace of dopehead lowlifes and a putrid, poisonous culture.

Dope, homo marriage, open-borders, socialism. No doubt in my mind that America is rounding its last corner.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Bullish]

I was young and wild and free. Always have been and always intend to stay that way.

[dfwgator]

8,300 Words About the Dangers of Tobacco Smoking, But Not a Single Word About Pot Smoking

Or about gays going "In through the out door."

[LowOiL]

Legal pot will probably need to be regulated

In what way, less powerful than normally sold? If so, will that not leave open the door for more illegal sellers with more potent pot for those that want more than the government crap.

Back to square one.

[freedom462]

I note that comparisons between marijuana and tobacco never note the fact that since marijuana is not legal, it is made by completely unknown sources and has zero health standards of any kind, since it is sold and marketed by criminal gangs. If it has the same fundamental health regulations as tobacco and alcohol, that alone could lower significantly some of the more blatant health hazards of it.

In any event, I maintain that it is of limited at best relevance. When discussing the health risks of alcohol, marijuana and tobacco in terms of justifying hyper-aggressive policing methods, it is all really just splitting hairs. The health risks of none of none of them justify it so we should be fighting for fair policies and elimination of out of control restrictions on all three of them. HHS is kidding themselves if they think out of control fear mongering works anyway. As has been said, “I read about the evils of drinking, so i gave up reading.”

[a fool in paradise]

Does anyone else think Obama's remarks were calculated to introduce marijuana into the 2014 campaign? My guess is the PTB in the party have decided this is a winning issue in 2014.

I know in Texas it's an attempt by the Democrats to lure low information/young voters to the polls to vote straight Democrat ticket (they have wet dreams about turning the state "blue" (Commie) Decocrat).

I say this because there is no ballot initiative to do so, however "a" candidate for the Agriculture Commissioner (Kinky Friedman) is using that as his campaign issue (even though he himself has acknowledged that the office does not have any say on legalizing pot/hemp).

Wendy Davis (Abortion Barbie with out of state feminazi donor cash) is another leg in this assault.

[a fool in paradise]

Those under 21 (or 18 if somehow pot is given the same status as tobacco and not the intoxicant alcohol) will still be in violation of the law (which apparently won’t be inforcred, surrendering the drug war is cool and all that).

$500 fines for those who buy tobacco and alcohol but pot? Meh.

[Tammy8]

The dims know unless they can get many Texans stoned their chances of turning Texas blue are not good.

[Ken H]

All of which supports the argument that the ptb in the party have decided it’s a winning issue.