The pot you smoked in the 70s is very different than what is available now. I was answering the comment that there are no increased medical costs etc with MJ, and that is simply not true. I see it all the time in the ED. You can be for or against legalized mj, but you cant ignore facts
As the mother of a substance abuse addicted child, and raising a granddaughter because both parents were using spice, a synthetic mj during pregnancy, I hate the legalization of this gateway drug. It makes kids think it is OK to get into drugs. My granddaughter was born dangerously underweight and still struggles in some areas due to moms drug use, and yet even after losing their child, both kids think mj is not harmful and that it even cures cancer. So dont tell me how wonderful your experience with mj was or how it didnt harm you - some people play with fire and get away unscathed. But that doesnt make fire any less dangerous.
I was thinking something along those lines. The pot today is very potent.
You’re blaming pot for issues in your family that were not caused by pot but by something completely different from pot that was intended to get one high but which is extremely toxic
That’s like blaming alcohol for someone drinking Sterno who hoped it would feel like a nice pinot..
BTW...I never said pot was always harmless but it sure never once made me vomit
And we had hashish and skunk sensebud and hash oil in late 70s.....which rivaled average pot today which is mid teens THC %...yes some exotics hit mid 20s...trash weed was done by 1976 in the deep south
Its like comparing beer to whiskey..in fact the difference is far greater in those libations....drink less or smoke less
Gateway?
Gateway is booze and nicotine as much as pot...more so in my view and the national cost and damage much higher so why not the same zeal to ban those?
I’m sure we can find things harmful about pot abuse....I can name some off my head I’ve observed in some folks....apathy...procrastinate...lowered cognitive skills when high....lower sex drive in men......oppositional personality....laziness....
Now compare that to any other drug legal or not and pot is dead last in harmfulness in my experience of smoking and observing it
And conservatives here picking a fight with at least one third of their own kind is foolish
As for me...my only addiction is a good woman’s affection
But I detest loudmouth irrational belligerent drunks fools far more than goofy blase stoners
But yet like I said getting a buzz on from drinking is celebrated here
I do drink folded southern egg not and Cointreau
Maybe some red wine...I let Wifey do the drinking
I’m always the DD in any outing here
But I’d smoke pot today privately with her if she wanted to
BTW...fwiw
I consider the medical marijuana schemes as practiced in some states an exploited farce....folks getting rich
A few states tightly control dispensation and I don’t include them