Posted on 09/07/2019 4:37:12 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Some states have made things illegal that are legal in other states; guns, abortion, gay marriage used to be an example, recreational intoxicants, even gambling, and prostitution. I prefer the feds stick to those things where they have a constitutional role. Gun rights are protected yet they have been eroded. Alcohol prohibition was not a federal role Colorado should decide this issue.
“You have to wonder if this has anything to do with the mass shootings.”
THC in marijuana (the psychoactive component that is concentrated in the extracts for sale) strongly increases the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain.
Most anti-psychotic drugs work by reducing dopamine levels.
THC will push borderline psychotics into full blown psychosis (hallucinations, break with reality). In fact, anyone will hallucinate if they take a high enough dose of THC - it is just a matter of the individual’s tolerance.
Although most people (the great bulk), using dosages like those found in traditional marijuana use, are relatively sedated by its effects, at dosages high enough to induce psychosis, people can become quite agitated and violent.
Well, maybe the liberals should something else... Like huffing gasoline.. Or maybe using hornet killer in their vapor thingie.. GLUE..!! That's it.!! What we need is a nation full of glue heads with 10 thousand nuclear weapons... Yeah ... that'll fix it... :(
The train wreck that is Colorado was caused by the exact same pathology that caused marijuana to be criminalized in the first place: The idea that a large group of people has rights to do what the individuals in that group do not.
We call it government power, or some such, In order to obscure the fact that it’s raw oppression.
Use of a natural plant should never have been criminalized, but now that the mob has assumed the power to do so, they have also assumed the responsibility for the outcome we’re seeing now.
She ought to be aware of what an alcohol fetal syndrome adult loos like.
Sorry, phrenology and homeopathic remedies were at least non-fatal if you got them wrong. This Cannabidiol oil nostrum is right up there with colloidal silver.
It being "legalized" in some states is saying lawmakers can write a law to cure cancer. By Stupids, for Stupids.
> You have to wonder if this has anything to do with the mass shootings.
The drugs to blame there are called SSRIs and as far as we’re able to tell, nearly every single one of these mass shooters had been taking them.
Harry J. Anslinger couldn’t have wrote a better script. Booze and cigarettes kill more people every year then pot does. No one ever od on weed.
“the LD 50 THC is probably the safest drug ever discovered”
Far from true.
“the lethal half dose (LD50) for THC in humans is estimated to be around 30 mg/kg. This means that approximately 2 grams (.07 ounces) of pure THC has a 50% chance of killing a 150 pound man.” (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24598271)
The mechanisms of death are “marked increase in heart rate or supine blood pressure”.
Concentrated THC derivatives consisting of up to 80% THC are now available - one tenth of an ounce of these would contain a LD50 dose of 2 grams of THC.
I try to stay out of "Reefer Madness" threads but you need to source that statement. I have no clue what a millier is.
One hundred years of a drug war , a domestic Vietnam. So when is victory in sight, another hundred years? And if fighting an intoxicating substance can be successful why is the 18th. Amendment still in place?
This appears to be driven by pretend-Christians in open defiance of the very first commands given by God to mankind in Genesis 1:26-28.
They really ought to have better things to do.
“Cannabidiol oil nostrum is right up there with colloidal silver.”
Colloidal silver was the most effective oral antibiotic we had, before penicillin. It is way better supported with hard data than CBD.
Just stop, your ignorance is extreme and everyone who has any familiar with the subject is going to spot that right away. You sound like AOC talking about guns.
re: “ No one ever od on weed.”
Never mind the other effects on one’s life -
“Whistling past the graveyard.”
No, I don’t have to wonder that.
Young brains have been smoking MJ long before mass shooting became a thing.
DING! DING! DING!
We have a winner!!
They asked to be freed from the “protective” oppression of their state government’s rules, and now they got it. Let them deal with their new found freedoms and all that go with that!
“No one ever od on weed.”
People can and do die, directly from ingesting THC.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24598271
Moderate use is very safe for the great bulk of people, but when dosages are raised significantly, such as with concentrated extracts, more serious effects are seen (such as hallucinations, but including sudden death).
Approximately 2 grams of pure THC (intraveneous) has a 50% chance of killing a 150 pound man.
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